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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey My rating: 5 of 5 stars “One flew east One flew west One flew over the cuckoo’s nest.” When does a novel becomes a classic? When it’s digested by critics and teachers bit-by-bit. Not when it is adapted to a movie. However, I don’t fully agree with the existing theory of a novel being called a classic. And no, I am not discussing my theory of classic, at least today. Before reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, I had never really thought about insanity, how it is dealt with, and how it relates to ideas such as freedom and morality. In this classic novel, Ken Kesey with a thought-provoking narrative […]
BOOK REVIEW: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey Posted December 2, 2014 by @amanhimself in 5 Stars, Books, classics, Reviews / 0 Comments One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey My rating: 5 of 5 stars “One flew east One flew west One flew over the cuckoo’s nest.” When does a novel be
BOOK REVIEW: The Last Man by Mary Shelley Posted October 24, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books, classics, Reviews / 0 Comments The Last Man by Mary Shelley My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars Critics consider The Last Man is Mary Shelley‘s most important novel after Frankenstein. Since I read Frankenstein, a few
BOOK REVIEW: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Posted July 20, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books, classics, Essay, Goth, Reviews / 0 Comments For several years, I avoided reading FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelly because the name had been caught up in endless clichés and had been inextricably linked with the horro
BOOK OF THE WEEK: FATHERS AND SONS Posted October 12, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books, classics, Fiction, Reviews / 0 Comments FATHERS AND SONS BY IVAN SERGEYEVICH TURGENEV Set in Nineteenth Century Russia, Fathers and Sons by I. S. Turgenev takes us the estates and agricultural fields – among the rur
FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD: A REVIEW Posted October 3, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books, classics / 0 Comments FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD by THOMAS HARDY The more I read, the more I realize that a book should be wrought with a special physiognomy but also it should be astonishing. Far From the Madding
THE DEVIL’S DISCIPLE: A REVIEW Posted June 16, 2013 by @amanhimself in classics, Fiction, Reviews / 0 Comments The Devil’s Disciple was written in 1896-97 by G. Bernard Shaw. The play occurs in the town of Websterbridge, New Hampshire, in 1777 during the American Revolution. The play is written in a
REVIEW FOR THE JAZZ: THE GREAT GATSBY Posted June 3, 2013 by @amanhimself in classics, Fiction, Reviews / 0 Comments Review by Aman Mittal THE GREAT GATSBY by F.Scott Fitzgerald I read the book over the last weekend and spent quite a time as it length would not suggest. Some would say its a tragic l
APRIL BOOK OF MONTH-THE METAMORPHOSIS Posted April 26, 2013 by @amanhimself in classics, Fiction, Reviews / 5 Comments The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is widely