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Adam Burgess
Summary: The Soft Machine is a semi-continuation of what Burroughs began in Naked Lunch and also seems to be a prelude to Nova Express, though I have yet to read the latter. This novel, in typical Burroughs fashion (read: shocking, course, disturbing, blunt, incoherent,… Continue Reading “Review: The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs”
Summary The Rules of Attraction takes place at New England’s Camden College – the starting point for many characters in Ellis’s later novels. The novel is written in the epistolary fashion – each segment is a different character’s journal-type entry. Sometimes these segments match… Continue Reading “Review: The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis”
Summary The Magicians by Lev Grossman is a curious fantasy novel, in that it is almost the anti-fantasy novel. The style is the fantasy-equivalent to literary Realism (capital R). Despite the fanciful creatures and mysterious worlds, The Magicians approaches magic in a “business-as-usual” manner. The main character,… Continue Reading “Review: The Magicians by Lev Grossman”
Summary: For Whom the Bell Tolls is the fifth of Hemingway’s works (not including short stories) that I’ve gotten through. Out of two novellas (The Torrents of Spring and Old Man and the Sea) and two other novels (The Sun Also Rises and A… Continue Reading “Review: For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway”
While I very much enjoyed the Shadow/Bean series, I found this final book to be the least engaging. I did enjoy the ending – Ender & Peter’s “reconciliation” – and the series interested me enough and kept me entertained enough to make me still… Continue Reading “Review: Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card”
Roof Beam Reader 