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Book #48: Invisible Man
Invisible Man is hands-down one of the most powerful novels I’ve ever read. I read the novel in college, and I don’t know whether it was age or maturity, but Invisible Man slapped me across the face...
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Book #49: A Handful Of Dust
Ever read this plotline before? Rich aristocrat has the perfect life in massive estate with beautiful wife and perfect child. Rich aristocrat’s beautiful wife gets bored and begins an affair. Rich...
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Book 50: The Great Gatsby
This review seems pointless. I think everything that can be said about The Great Gatsby has already been said. So I’m not reinventing the wheel here, not that I ever do during any of my reviews (I use...
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Book #51: A Dance To The Music Of Time
“To dance is to live.” – Famous dancer person Dancing represents life, vitality, happiness, even sexuality. A good dancer is never more alive than when she dances—heart thumping quickly, blood churning...
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Book #52: Pale Fire
This is one of the strangest, most fascinating books I’ve ever read. Essentially, Pale Fire is a poem inside a novel inside a novel. Follow? Probably not. It’s still a little confusing to me, and I’ve...
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Book #53: Snow Crash
Snow Crash reminds me a lot of a typical Saturday Night Live episode. If you know the SNL formula, they start with the strongest skits first. Since the show airs at 11:30 eastern time in the U.S., they...
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Book #54: The Golden Notebook
Call me cynical, but when I hear the term “experimental novel” I just assume that the author got bored and wanted to do something different. Really, it’s probably just a different way of interpreting...
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Book #55: The Sun Also Rises
If I had to describe The Sun Also Rises in one sentence, I’d probably say something like “Imagine a European, classier version of the movie Animal House, and you’ve got The Sun Also Rises.” I think...
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Book #56: Ragtime
Meh. I didn’t really like Ragtime. I didn’t really hate Ragtime. The novel was a little like a plain, dry biscuit without much seasoning. It might nourish you a little bit, but you’ll probably have...
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Book 57: Portnoy’s Complaint
I need a shower. No, really, I need a shower. I know that I started off my review of Dog Soldiers with the same phrase. But that was a joke. A ha-ha funny, lame joke. But when I finished Portnoy’s...
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Book #58: All The King’s Men
Several years before I went back to school to get my English degree, I actually graduated from college with a Political Science degree. I planned on going to law school and blah, blah, blah, and...
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Book #59: The Crying Of Lot 49
*Before I start today’s review, I want to quickly tell you guys about my interview with Readmill yesterday. They asked me a lot of great questions about the blog, my process, and how it all got...
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Book #60: A Death In The Family
Just when I thought I had read it all. I’ve read about little kids being created and harvested as organ donors in Never Let Me Go. I’ve read about an alcoholic mom who accidentally drowns her infant in...
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Book #61: A Passage To India
I expected to like this book more than I did. I love the idea behind it. In the middle of the British occupation of India during the early 20th century, an Indian doctor is wrongly accused of sexually...
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Book #62: Loving
Terry Southern once called Henry Green, author of Loving, a “writer’s writer’s writer.” I’m not really sure what that means. But, basically, Southern—like many of his peers—thought Green was pretty...
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Book #63: The Sot-Weed Factor
That was one of the strangest books I’ve ever read. The Sot-Weed Factor is simultaneously entertaining and exhausting. It’s incredibly funny while also being incredibly frustrating. The book seems to...
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Book #64: Ubik
You’ve gone and done it, Philip K. Dick. You’ve gone and made me write a review in which I can’t ramble about how much I dislike science fiction. You see, I hated Neuromancer. Snow Crash had its...
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Book #65: Call It Sleep
Call It Sleep is a tale of two novels. The first 75% of the novel is fabulous. It’s emotionally draining and depressing–but fabulous nonetheless. Henry Roth tells the story of an immigrant Jewish...
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Book #66: The Day Of The Locust
I’m tired of reading books about depressed, alcoholic, hopeless twenty-somethings. I’m just tired of it, man. I get it. I really do. Your 20s is probably the most volatile, unpredictable decade of your...
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Book #67: Money
Money is one of the wildest novels I’ve ever read. Pardon the literary cliché, but it’s a roller coaster ride from start to finish. The novel is such a romp that I don’t even know where to start...
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