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269 reviews
The Devil Tree by Jerzy Kosiński
dark
medium-paced
1.0
This was a big miss for me.
The writing style felt very...off...
The page spaces were huge and a lot of paragraphs felt disjointed from the rest of the book. It felt like the author was trying to prove how fucked up he could be, all the time.
I didn't care for any of the characters. Too bad, because I liked Kosinskis' other works.
The writing style felt very...off...
The page spaces were huge and a lot of paragraphs felt disjointed from the rest of the book. It felt like the author was trying to prove how fucked up he could be, all the time.
I didn't care for any of the characters. Too bad, because I liked Kosinskis' other works.
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
informative
sad
medium-paced
4.0
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
emotional
informative
inspiring
4.5
Clear, consice and (thankfully) short. And easy read that humanizes the way we think about money.
Very little techno babble. Just straightforward advice and reassurance for normal folks. I though this was great.
Very little techno babble. Just straightforward advice and reassurance for normal folks. I though this was great.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
adventurous
mysterious
reflective
3.5
This book really runs the gamut of how I feel about Murakami. Sometimes I love him. When he's weaving together threads of semi connected surrealism I'm all in. Gimme those weird dreams and half-visions and cats with crooked tales!
Sometimes I can't be bothered with his digressisions. Why were Creta & Malta Kano in this book? They all but vanish and then kinda (maybe?) matter towards the end. Sometimes, the side plots are far, FAR more compelling than the main story (Loved the Lt. Well stuff.
I think he's an author with a unique prose that isn't much concerned with how (or even if) the reader picks up what he's putting down. In this particular case, it didn't work as well for me as it could have.
Sometimes I can't be bothered with his digressisions. Why were Creta & Malta Kano in this book? They all but vanish and then kinda (maybe?) matter towards the end. Sometimes, the side plots are far, FAR more compelling than the main story (Loved the Lt. Well stuff.
I think he's an author with a unique prose that isn't much concerned with how (or even if) the reader picks up what he's putting down. In this particular case, it didn't work as well for me as it could have.