Advantages: good perspective Disadvantages: a sad twist to the plot
I swear i've gone completely mad- I had to read this book for my english literature exam and here I am willingly writing about it. Even worse, I actually requested this category (but I figured after being made to analyse this book in great deatail, I'd b ...
Advantages: An absorbing story with wonderful detail Disadvantages: The beginning is hard work
...A man in his sixties recalls a summer from his childhood spent at a country house of a schoolfriend, a summer of privilege and freedom but one that ended in lost innocence and tragedy. It’s 1900 and Leo is asked to spend the summer at the grand countr ...
Advantages: Beautifully crafted novel, a tale of naivety and misunderstanding. Disadvantages: Perhaps more "literary", but well worth trying.
..."The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there". Hartley sums up the whole atmosphere of this novel with these words.
The story starts with the older Leo Colston finding his boyhood diaries, and reminiscing about the past - a past wh ...
Advantages: A gripping read ; Superb characters ; A book all teenager's can relate to ; Inspired Richey James Edwards Disadvantages: Too short ; I never want it too end
...me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it." The Catcher In The Rye was a curious ...
Advantages: A masterpiece of modern fiction Disadvantages: The 1950's language and slang might sound funny to some
I know there must 30 or so reviews of this fantastic modern classic in here already but I just had to start my review-writing career with one of my personal favourites. I guess it's a bit like feeling safe with an old friend.
If you have never read a m ...
