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BOOK REVIEW: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy by Douglas Adams

BOOK REVIEW: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Posted December 18, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books, Fiction, Reviews / 0 Comments

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a fun, buoyant adventure following the tale of Arthur Dent as he narrowly escapes the earth’s destruction in the wake of a new space super-highway being built in its place, hitching a ride with interstellar researcher Ford Prefect aboard the ship of the very alien bureaucrats whom destroyed his planet. From here unfolds the winding and absurdly improbable tale which will take the sole survivor of earth’s destruction from the one side of […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick

BOOK REVIEW: Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick

Posted December 6, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books, Fiction, Reviews / 0 Comments

Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick My rating: 4 of 5 stars Books like Sleepless Nights are not ordinary. They are written once in a blue moon, and meant to read for once in a blue moon. It’s part fiction and part autobiography, memories of an aging women in a nursing home told through story, letters, quotes, literary passages and dreams of missed opportunities written by Elizabeth Hardwick sharing the first name with the protagonist. There are parts of this book that are stunningly beautiful. The type of writing is more of wandering, something you don’t get to read in other books. It has its own uniqueness.

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BOOK REVIEW: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

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 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 […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Coraline by Neil Gaiman

BOOK REVIEW: Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Posted November 28, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

Coraline by Neil Gaiman My rating: 4 of 5 stars Coraline by Neil Gaiman is like a children’s book, but it’s not only a children’s book. It’s incredibly imaginative, simple and perfectly satisfying. It’s a short read and could be read in a day. The story is about a little girl called Coraline and her parents who moves into an old house, divided into four flats. Soon she gets bored with the new place, and with her parents being too busy to spend time with her, she goes on to explore her neighborhood. On exploring, Coraline finds a locked door in the drawing-room of her own house. It reveals only a brick wall when she finally opens it, but when […]

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You think surviving on Earth is a challenge, how about Mars?

You think surviving on Earth is a challenge, how about Mars?

Posted November 6, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews, science fiction / 0 Comments

The Martian by Andy Weir My rating: 5 of 5 stars “You think surviving on Earth is a challenge, how about Mars?” Labeled as a “survival thriller“, imagine Robinson Crusoe on Mars? It’s a tale of a man trying to endure alone on the incredibly inhospitable planet of Mars. But it’s not the tension of survival that makes Andy Weir’s debut novel brilliant, it’s the humor. In the middle of nowhere, Mark Watney, a botanist and a mechanical engineer, without his crew who were forced by a dust storm to leave him behind, thinking he was dead, wakes up some time later to find himself stranded on Mars with a limited supply of food and no way to communicate with […]

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BOOK REVIEW: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

BOOK REVIEW: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Posted October 30, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath My rating: 3 of 5 stars Last summer, I got fascinated with Sylvia Plath. I read her poems, I watched the movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow who portrayed Sylvia Plath in the movie, which left me unsatisfied with my fascination for the poet. Her words to me were so soothing that, for a month I read nothing else but her poems. This never happened with me before, as I am able to read on an average at least a book a week. But Plath’s writing got hold of me more and I sank deep down in to the world her words wove around me. Thus, after reading many of her poems, and I found only […]

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BOOK REVIEW: The Last Man by Mary Shelley

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 months back, my obsession with the author’s writing style grew and I wanted to gradually examine Shelley’s writing by reading her other works.Thus, I picked this 500 pages long novel that explores similar thematic concerns as in Frankenstein, though from a vastly different perspective. The nightmarish story envisions the end of humanity from a ruthless and inescapable plague. Full of heart-wrenching loss, The Last Man tests the resilience of humanity, as well as its capacity for sorrow and grief. The storytelling starts at the constant node following the timeline […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

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 horror genre, which I consider a bad form of fiction. However, being obsessed on reading more Gothic Fiction and the author herself I decided to give it a read and I confess that I am sorry I have waited for this long. The story behind the writing this great piece of Gothic Fiction is as animate as the book itself. In 1816, at Lord Byron’s villa on shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron himself and his guests Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, and John Polidori. Byron, inspired by some fireside readings of supernatural tales, suggested that each member of the party should write […]

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