Posts Tagged ‘book review’
Love and Nausea, by David Wilson
The epitome of the expression “don’t judge a book by its cover”. Despite looking like a trashy romance novel, Love and Nausea is a fantastic combination of a funny and clever novel and a critique on liberal philosophies and the middle class way of life. Robert is in a heart breaking but hilarious position as he struggles to force together his liberal philosophies and conservative upbringing, resulting in a perpetual state of agony that is, ironically, exactly what he was seeking all along.
Read More...Vellum, by Hal Duncan
I would compare Vellum to the attention-seeking middle child of His Dark Materials and The Da Vinci Code; without Pullman’s mighty narrative or Brown’s ability to merge reality, mythology and fiction, Duncan’s creation simply screams “Look at me! See how different I am!” before denying that it even values your opinion. Without a doubt it’s an impressive read but, at the heart of it, it’s sheer snobbery in book form.
Read More...White Wolf, by David Gemmell
David Gemmell was, in my humble opinion, one of the masters of the fantasy genre. Although the last series he wrote before he died, Troy, is probably his most famous, the Drenai series is certainly his most acclaimed with true fans of the genre. It is a joy then that White Wolf was written as a return to the Drenai, featuring Gemmell’s most renowned character, Druss the Legend, along with a new addition – the mighty Olek Skilgannon.
Read More...Sapphire, by Katie Price
What could have been an emotional journey through depths of despair and insecurity turns out to be a predictable waddle through the shallow puddle of Katie Price’s feeble mind. Don’t read it, don’t buy it – don’t even look at it if you spot it in a shop. To pay attention to this book is to despair for the once noble art of writing. Depthless, mindless swill from start to end – awful.
Read More...Existentialism Is A Humanism, by Jean-Paul Sartre
Considered by many to be the definining text of the existential movement, Jean-Paul Sartre’s Existentialism Is A Humanism was originally delivered as a lecture, defending his theory against misguided criticisms. To this extent, it is a short but powerful book that can be read in an hour, but take a lifetime to fully understand.
Read More...Rock N’ Roll Confessions, by Helena Danyluk
An intensely hot and erotic glimpse into a rockstar’s life and the women who love them.
Read More...Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett
Pratchett’s characters are always superb, but Night Watch stands apart from the others as a masterpiece of interplay and storytelling…seeing the characters in their young forms adds another level of humour to what is already a melting pot of conviviality.
Read More...Triangle of Deception by Haggai Carmon
How do you penetrate the world’s most secretive and tightly knit terrorist organization? Dan Gordon’s only option is deception. Working undercover in a joint CIA/Mossad mission, he’s on the hunt for the source of funding to Hezbollah. He has infiltrated a Lebanese network in Paraguay, only to realize the operation is far more wide-ranging than he’s been told…
Read More...Under The Dome, by Stephen King
A small community in Maine is going about its everyday life when, immediately and out of apparently nowhere, a colossal dome appears, surrounding them all and cutting them off from the rest of the world!
Read More...Valhalla Rising, by Clive Cussler
Valhalla Rising is a kraken of a thriller than will grip your from beginning to end in the many tentacles of Clive Cussler’s imagination.
Read More...Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains will be in want of more brains.”
Read More...The Shining by Stephen King
As Halloween draws closer, I feel a few horror-reviews are definitely in order! So today I present to you one of the scariest books ever written; The Shining, by Stephen King.
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