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Category Archives: Classics
I, Robot
Author: Isaac Asimov Publisher: Spectra Date Published: 1950 Pages: 224 Firstly, if you have watched the ‘I, Robot’ movie please forget about it when approaching the book. The two texts are not at all alike; except they both feature robots and a character … Continue reading
Posted in ♥♥♥♥ - 4/5, Classics, Fiction, Science Fiction
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Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer
Author: Patrick Suskind Publisher: Penguin Date Published: 1985 Pages: 263 Patrick Suskind’s Perfume follows the life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, abandoned at birth in the slums of eighteenth-century Paris, but blessed with an outstanding sense of smell. This gift enables Jean-Baptiste … Continue reading
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead
Author: William S Burroughs Publisher: Penguin Dates Published: 1969 Pages: 192 In this funny, nightmarish masterpiece of imaginative excess, grotesque characters engage in acts of violent one-upmanship, boundless riches mangle a corner of Africa into a Bacchanalian utopia, and technology, … Continue reading
Posted in ♥♥ - 2/5, Classics, Fiction, Gay & Lesbian
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Lolita
Author: Vladimir Nabokov Publisher: Penguin Dates Published: 1955 Pages: 336 ‘Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.’ Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally … Continue reading
Posted in ♥♥♥½ - 3½/5, Classics, Fiction
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Paradise Lost
Author: John Milton Introduction Author: John Leonard Publisher: Penguin Dates Published: 1667 Pages: 453 In Paradise Lost Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. … Continue reading
Posted in ♥♥♥♥♥ - 5/5, Classics, Fiction, Poetry
Tagged Adam, Angels, Book Reviews, books, Chaos, Christianity, Eden, Envy, epic, Eve, Evil, Fiction, Gluttony, God, Good, Greed, Hate, Heaven, Hell, Humanity, Jesus, John Leonard, John Milton, love, Lucifer, lust, Michael, Original Sin, Paradise, Paradise Lost, Penguin, Poetry, Pride, Raphael, religion, reviews, Satan, Seven Deadly Sins, Sin, Sloth, spirituality, The Bible, tragedy, Wrath
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She
Author: H. Rider Haggard Publisher: Penguin Dates Published: 1886 Pages: 368 On his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the silver casket that his father has left to him. It contains a letter recounting the legend of a white sorceress who … Continue reading
Posted in ♥♥♥½ - 3½/5, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction
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American Psycho
Author: Bret Easton Ellis Publisher: Picador Date Published: 1991 Pages: 399 When I bought ‘American Psycho’ it was the only book on the shelf wrapped in plastic – people are not allowed to freely browse the pages in the shop. When it … Continue reading
Posted in ♥♥♥♥ - 4/5, Classics, Fiction
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Author: D. H. Lawrence Publisher: Penguin Date published: 1928 Pages: 363 “Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the invalid Sir Clifford. Unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, Clifford encourages her to have a liaison with … Continue reading
Posted in ♥♥♥♥ - 4/5, Classics, Fiction
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Greek Tragedy
Introduction author: Simon Goodhill Publisher: Penguin Classics Date published: 2004 Pages: 307 Greek Tragedy is a compilation of five plays created in the brilliant twilight era of Athenian theater. The following greek plays are in the book: Agamemnon by Aeschylus Oedipus Rex … Continue reading
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