Advantages: Atmospheric if rather cruel story of two people during the era Disadvantages: Unsympathetic, unlikeable characters
I picked up this book to read partly as a challenge. Firstly, I had not read any early 20th century American fiction for some years, my experience consisting largely of some of Hemingway’s titles some years ago. Secondly, I was interested in finding out ...
Advantages: Colorful descriptions; and immense sense of imagery; insight into the psychology of Youth Disadvantages: little to no proof behind descriptions; lack of movement; static characters; bleak motivations
...Fitzgerald's biggest flaw is in his biggest accomplishment: he has an uncanny ability to write pages upon pages of embroidered words on the psychology and behavior of a certain character. Yet, in execution, the characters never match his analysis. Each ch ...
The Beautiful and the Damned fulfills its title surprisingly well. The text is beautifully, though simply, written, and the meaning, the interest, the purpose, might as well be damned.
Eliot is writing again (ie, The Great Gatsby) about the pitiable up ...
Advantages: You may gain insight into a turbulent time in English History - the War of the Roses (white and red) Disadvantages: It is not always easy to unravel who is on which side at which time; sentences can be long and complicated.
...I have always delighted in some authors' ability to take a period in history and illuminate it, just a bit, for the poor unsuspecting reader intent on a quick action thriller to while away an hour or two at a time.
Robert Lewis Stevenson, like Charles ...
...The Gothic, specifically eighteenth-century Gothic, is one of my favourite genres of literature. However, I'll read Gothic takes from any epoch, be it Romantic or Modernist. I had been quite keen to read Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula for quite some tim ...
