Category: Fiction

Review: Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion

Posted on November 3, 2012 by

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Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion Final Verdict: 3.5 out of 4.0 YTD: 43 Plot/Story: 3 – Plot/Story is interesting & believable. Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays is included in Time magazine’s “100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005.”… Continue Reading “Review: Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion”

Category: American Lit, Book Review, Existentialism, Fiction, Hollywood Novel, Joan Didion, Modernism

Review: The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

Posted on November 1, 2012 by

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The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford Final Verdict: 3.5 out of 4.0 YTD: 42 Plot/Story: 3 – Plot/Story is interesting and believable. The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion is considered to be (by its narrator) “the saddest story” ever told.  The implication… Continue Reading “Review: The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford”

Category: 1001 Books, Adultery, Book Review, British Literature, Classics, Fiction, Ford Madox Ford, Literature, Modernism, PhD, Unreliable Narrator

Review: The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst (#OthersLitLGBT)

Posted on October 17, 2012 by

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The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst Final Verdict: 3.5 out of 4.0 YTD: 45 The Swimming-Pool Library is somehow both more and less than it would first appear.  Its main character, William Beckwith, is a wealthy, privileged young man – an inheritor of… Continue Reading “Review: The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst (#OthersLitLGBT)”

Category: 1001 Books, Alan Hollinghurst, Book Review, British Literature, Fiction, Gay Lit, GLBT, LGBT, Literary Others Event, Literature

Review: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

Posted on October 8, 2012 by

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey Final Verdict: 3.75 out of 4.0 YTD: 41 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting, believable, and impactful. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is the story of a group of men residing in an Oregon (USA) mental… Continue Reading “Review: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey”

Category: 1001 Books, American Lit, American Mythology, Book Review, Fiction, Ken Kesey, LGBT, Literary Others Event, Literature, Mental Health, The Beats

Review: Seize the Day by Saul Bellow

Posted on September 27, 2012 by

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Seize the Day by Saul Bellow Final Verdict: 3.5 out of 4.0 YTD: 40 Plot/Story: 3 – Plot/Story is interesting and believable. Poor Tommy Wilhelm.  Lost, jobless, loveless, and completely devoid of pride or any self-confidence.  This is Tommy’s day of reckoning.  When the novella… Continue Reading “Review: Seize the Day by Saul Bellow”

Category: 1001 Books, American Lit, Book Review, Classics, Fiction, Jewish-American, Literature, Modernism, PhD, post-World War II

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