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Hello people! I am very sorry for my lack of activity, but I am having an unfortunate family situation that takes up a lot of time, leaving me with little time to write and review. Hopefully this will blow over soon but I just wanted to let my followers know.
Added to booklist: High Fidelity Hornby, Nick (264 pages) Nick Hornby's High Fidelity is the brilliant story of one man's journey of self-discovery. When Rob - a thirty-five-year old record shop owner and music obsessive - is dumped by Laura he indulges in some casual sex, a little light stalking and some extreme soul-searching in the form of contacting every ex-girlfriend who ever broke his heart. An instant classic, High Fidelity is a hilarious exploration of love, life, music and the modern male. source
Added to booklist: The Witches of Eastwick Updike, John (324 pages) The air of Eastwick breeds witches – women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. Into the void of Eastwick breezes Darryl Van Horne, a charismatic magus of a man who entrances the trio. This is Updike at his most mischievous. source
Added to booklist: To the Lighthouse Woolf, Virginia (268 pages) To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. Its use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence and shifting perspectives, give the novel an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values. source
Added to booklist: The Time Machine Wells, H.G. (110 pages) A Victorian scientist propels himself into the future. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realizes that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture – now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have reason to be afraid: in tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race – the sinister Morlocks. When the scientist's time machine vanishes he must confront the Morlocks or remain forever trapped in the future. source
Added to booklist: The Pearl Steinbeck, John (100 pages) When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in church and their little boy, Coyotito, will attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and violence the pearl arouses in him and his neighbours. Written with lyrical simplicity The Pearl explores the secretive nature of man, the depths of evil within, and the consequences of rebellion. source
Hello followers! I just wanted to let you know I'm on vacation for about ten days, and I think my book disappeared in transit, which makes me really depressed because who is so careless they can't keep a book close when traveling? Because of that, I won't be posting any updates on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for until I either found it or I get back home to a library. I'm going to snoop through my sister's stuff before I give up though, she usually steals my things and forget to return them. Have a continued nice summer!
Added to booklist: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Süskind, Patrick (276 pages) Patrick Süskind's Perfume follows the life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, abandoned at birth in the slums of eighteenth-century Paris, but blessed with an outstanding sense of smell. This gift enables Jean-Baptiste to master the art of perfume making, but one scent evades him: that of a virgin, whom he must possess to ensure her innocence and beauty are preserved. Laced with sense and suspense, this is a beguiling tale of lust, desire and deadly obsession. source
Added to booklist: The Little Prince de Saint-Exupery, Antoine (118 pages) Moral allegory and spiritual autobiography, The Little Prince is the most translated book in the French language. With a timeless charm it tells the story of a little boy who leaves the safety of his own tiny planet to travel the universe, learning the vagaries of adult behaviour through a series of extraordinary encounters. His personal odyssey culminates in a voyage to Earth and further adventures. source
But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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He isn't extraordinary. He is simply a man and no more, and is subject to all the fears and all the cowardice and all the timidity that any other man is subject to.
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Added to booklist: In Cold Blood Capote, Truman (348 pages) Truman Capote's In Cold Blood is both a masterpiece of journalism and a powerful crime thriller. Inspired by a 300-word article in The New York Times, Capote spent six years exploring and writing the story of Kansas farmer Herb Clutter, his family and the two young killers who brutally murdered them. In Cold Blood created a genre of novelistic non-fiction and made Capote's name with its unflinching portrayal of a comprehensible and thoroughly human evil. source
I think for a fact that she'd rather he'd of been stark naked under that towel than had on those shorts. She's glaring at those big white whales leaping round on his shorts in pure wordless outrage.
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
#7 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Introduction Written and published in 1962, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey is set in a psychiatric hospital told from the view of an inmate nicknamed "Chief", following the story of McMurphy, rebellious criminal faking insanity to avoid prison. A power struggle develops between McMurphy and Head Nurse Ratchet who rules the ward with an iron fist. It was published in the United States by Viking Press & Signet Books, and it has earned a spot on the "100 Best English-language Novels" by TIME Magazine. The title of the novel is taken from an old nursery rhyme. Prior knowledge I have seen the movie starring Jack Nicholson since I am alive and not six feet under, which is the only excuse for not having seen this movie before turning eighteen. Even the edition of the novel I snagged from my grandmother is decorated with Nicholson's face both on the cover and several pages of screenshots from the movie. This frustrates me intensely since it feels very much impossible to make a mental image of my own when someone has already done a very memorable (but less personal) portrayal of the character. Expectations One thing lowered my expectations severely only minutes ago, and that was my father's lofty input of this novel, which simply put was: "It's strange to find a movie that is better than the book it is based on, right?". Insert jolly laugh, and then he left me in a corner to feel bitter about my reading choices before even turning the first page. I still don't know what to expect but I do know that I am going into the experience much like Bruce Banner would enter a government facility. At the slightest provocation, things are going to start flying.
The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me, with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.
Bram Stoker, Dracula
Final review of Dracula
The classic by Bram Stoker published 1897 features one of the three arguably most famous monster characters of all time, Count Dracula. He is considered the father and inspiration for modern adaptation of the vampire, yet surprisingly Count Dracula takes a relatively small part in the making of his own immortal tale. Instead the novel is focused on the mystery and the many protagonists. Lead by Van Helsing, supposedly a Dutchman whom strangely enough often speaks German when startled or overcome by emotion, a small team of privileged Englishmen seek to protect their home and women against the atrocity that is the bloodsucking vampire attempting to encroach on their tea-drinking territory. Lucy and Mina, the women of the group, soon become targets for the Count’s bloodlust, infecting them with his immortal affliction, and most of the novel is spent trying to protect them from this vampiric evil. In all honesty, this novel is underwhelming. The first half of the novel is all it was promised to be, and the second half is trifled with inactivity, sexism, forced emotional responses and repeated information of already explained vampire lore. The most interesting party is a mental patient ingesting flies, spiders and birds. While a worthwhile read for the actual background of Dracula and the impact of the novel on modern literature and television, the experience will do nothing to enrich you in the moment of reading.