28.Jan.2010 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
People often started their reviews by saying this book so-and-so made them cry. That doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t cry for a book.
Little did I know that I would begin my review now by saying this book made me cry! And not just a tear or two, but more like weeping for 5 [...]
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 [...]
12.May.2008 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
This book is the second of Ishiguro that I read (first was When We Were Orphans). The style is a bit different. Easier to digest I’d say, a page turner. The author is good at giving hints to something in the past or the future, and makes me wanting more throughout the entire book.
I can’t [...]
27.Mar.2008 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Road is awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007, James Tait Black Prize in 2006, and a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.
I was sorely disappointed with this book. I read it by the recommendation of a colleague, and many other people who quoted that this was their best [...]
01.Aug.2007 The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
This is a story about Henry and Clare, who met when Clare was 6 and Henry was 36, and were married when Clare was 22 and Henry 30. Henry periodically finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. They can neither prevent or control the force.
I struggled to go through the first chapter or [...]
