04.Jul.2009 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is like talking to one of your unnaturally geeky friends. Sometimes they go off at a tangent that you wish they would come back to earth and stop being so confusing. Sometimes they blurt out things so absurd and hilarious that only geniuses like they are could even [...]
04.Apr.2009 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The story in The Color Purple is told through a series of diary entries and letters. Somehow this worked well for me, since I could have short attention span sometimes, and reading diary entry or letter means it’s hardly longer than 2-3 pages at a time. The narrator, Celie, is a black woman who lives [...]
01.Apr.2009 Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
“It was, with no attempt at covering itself, the naked heart of a woman calling out to her man.” ~p34 Snow Country is a literal translation of the Japanese title Yukiguni (雪国, read ゆきぐに). The name comes from where the story takes place, rural Japan that receives a huge amount of snow in the winter. Snow [...]
02.Dec.2008 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
A conversation with a friend a while back: Me: I try to read more classics, but some classics I would just never read. Friend: Like what for example? M: Ooh.. Like Moby Dick.. F: Why? (He read Moby Dick at school and although it’s probably something he wouldn’t have picked up by himself, it wasn’t [...]
10.Sep.2008 Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
Another classic on the line, but it’s a lot easier than Wuthering Heights, because the setting and language are in 1900s. It took me a loooong time to finish the book. One reason is I think because I read the book in snippets and not in a big chunk. I had little time to just [...]
09.Sep.2008 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
“I cannot live without my heart. I cannot live without my soul.” I finally read the book (took me around 5-6 weeks), watched the movie (the 1993 one with Ralph Fiennes) and now writing the review. I knew of Wuthering Heights a long while ago, interestingly, from a manga called The Glass Mask. It was [...]
09.Mar.2008 The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
Okay I forgot that I’ve read this book too, somewhere between Atonement and Harry Potter. I was quite struggling to continue at several points of the book. It started strong, then it went downhill, got more boring and more boring, picked up a bit, then all flat again. I mean I really wanted to like [...]
26.Nov.2007 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
This book is on International ray. I got it from taniazed, Australia, and will travel next to Wandering-B, Hong Kong. It had 8 journalers before me. I also read it for the discussion at thereadinglounge.com I got really annoyed at the beginning of how much the main character (a 16 years old kid) use damn, [...]