While I enjoyed reading parts of this book, and the author’s literary technique was quite good in places, in the end I felt there were too many ideas and characters (and just plain “stuff”) crammed into it. It was like a cow’s mouth and, for that reason, hard to take. For me, Dominick’s [...]
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THE KILLER’S TEARS is hands down one of the best books I have read in my entire life, and will undoubtedly remain so in the future. The ingeniously descriptive writing, the fascinating characters and the unique storyline make for an addictive novel that is extremely moving and powerful. Overall the story is quite [...]
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I only picked this up because it was at the thrift store and I’d heard so much about it. I expected it to be hokey, which it sometimes is, but I didn’t expect it to tell me so much about myself and especially my husband that I had no idea about. When I read the [...]
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This is an outstanding book from an unforgettable trilogy. The story is gripping and keeps you begging for more. It’s the kind of story where you just want to tune out the rest of the world, crawl under the covers, and read from start to finish. Libba Bray has you falling in [...]
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I have read many of John Grisham’s books, and I typically enjoy them very much–they are the type of books that I don’t want to put down! However, I did not feel this way about The Innocent Man; it’s the first John Grisham book that I did not like. I kept waiting for [...]
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I found the book to be inspiring. It isn’t a book about Mortenson’s courage or ingenuity, though both of these things come through. It is more a book about how to go about peace through acts of grace. His ideas about promoting peace through education and other aide strike a deep cord [...]
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I found the book to be inspiring. It isn’t a book about Mortenson’s courage or ingenuity, though both of these things come through. It is more a book about how to go about peace through acts of grace. His ideas about promoting peace through education and other aide strike a deep cord [...]
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As a mother, I want to hug that child who, copes with every miserable situation that she and her siblings have to endure. At the same time I want to strangle the parents for shirking their responsibilities. How can, for instance, the father set up his teenage daughter at a bar with some [...]
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Kafka on the Shore is Murakami–s best novel yet, outshining The Wind Up Bird Chronicle and Hard Boiled Wonderland[...] by combining an intriguing, page-turning storyline with absurdly profound metaphysical and postmodern philosophy. The parallel-story structure (also used in Hard-Boiled) adds depth to the novel, without slowing the pace of the narrative. Murakami–s characters are fleshed [...]
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I found this book to be so full of cliches that I actually laughed out loud. Talk about unoriginal: everything from the characterization of the heroine, the setting, to the way in which it referenced works like Jane Eyre, etc. I found the main character to be uninteresting and the plot was predictable. And all [...]
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