June 2011
13 posts
I Heard You Paint Houses
An extremely good read, especially if you like history. I was pleasantly surprised by it to be honest because it was suggested to me from an individual who doesn’t read very much. This book was exactly like the aforementioned individual said it was it was engaging and historically accurate. Definitely a must read if you are the type of person into reading about unsolved mysterious and the...
Tales of Belkin
A glass of vodka, a warm fire, a welcoming inn keeper riddled with tales from the provincial reaches of the vastness that is Russia are comforting items that a lonely traveler seeks on a trek from the far reaches of the global. The Tales of Belkin is a textual version of the aforementioned scene; Alexander Pushkin becomes a weaver of folkloric tales in this novella, combining the tales from...
A little something for everyone
Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Woolf, Beckett, Wetly, Rushdie, Chabon, Hemmingway, Fitzgerald, Lee, Capote, Darwin, Dickens, Orwell, Joyce, Ballard, Thompson, Austen, Sand, Eliot, Bulgakov, Gogol, Pushkin, Russian, Italian, Greek, Welsh, British, and the list could continue for more line than already typed; literature has an insurmountable amount of material for the world to grasp and experience all...
Watchmen
Life imitating art or art imitating life? One of the many rhetorical questions that Watchmen delve into in this though provoking, provocative narrative that is the graphic novel. Juxtaposing nuclear holocaust with the demise of masked superheroes the authors of this novel, purge the human psyche of all its underlying fears concerning the end of the world and if the possibility of world peace...
Empire of the Sun
A refreshing change from the typical coming-of-age story and a new perspective on the traditional war novel; moving the setting from the traditional European scene to that of the Japanese island and told through the eyes of a British boy rather than a traditional meat head soldier. This is a splendid novel and really let’s its reader explore the war from a foreign experience and seriously...
Water for Elephants
Ladies and gentleman may I present to you the most heartwarming tale of circus love told during the most depressing point in American history.” Enter the center ring a lost boy with nowhere to go, so he enters the life a circus man and then the real parade of characters start. Marlena, August, Uncle Al, Camel, Walter, Rosie and a host of other characters that paint a tale of tragedy, sorrow,...
Zorba The Greek
Feta cheese, gyros, ancient civilizations, big fat weddings and Zorba, what all these things have in common; they are all Greek and are a representation of the Greek spirit. Zorba the Greek tells the tale of a wandering soul in search of work and ultimately a lifelong friend, to which he can share the experiences of his life with. While reading the novel the audiences begins to ask themselves...
Freedom in Exile
A humble Buddhist attempts to triumph over the communist leeches of the People’s Republic of China; this is essentially the life of the Dalai Lama. The autobiography of a religious and political leader juxtaposes both religion and politics into the forefront in the course of the life of the Fourteenth Reincarnation of the Dalai Lama. This is a story of how an abhorrent situation has consumed the...
A Single Man
Single. The word alone can mean a myriad of things , relationship status, life status or just a feeling that you are the only one in existence and no one share a burden or pain with you. In this novel, Christopher Isherwood takes the reader on a journey through a man’s journey following the death of his lover, experiencing his life for only 24 hours. The man descends into a “sloth of sadness”...
Less Than Zero
Drugs, sex and lies all played to a swanky pop soundtrack that defines the 1980s, Less Than Zero encompasses all of these aforementioned themes while wearing Wayfarers and day glow prints that defined the era in question. Less Than Zero is a novel about a drug ridden society and how a young man tries to cope with the streets of LA after being on the East Coast in New Hampshire for the past four...
Between the pages
It was suggested to me by one of my friends that I acquire a tumblr to chronicle the many pages of literature that have been read throughout my days and share my thoughts on these works of literature with the masses. Through literature I have experienced the serf rebellion of Russia, the blissful seascapes of Greece, endured the friendship of a character named Zorba, travelled back to a time when...
