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The Roadby: Cormac McCarthy June 01, 2007 Best Selling > Books > 20th Century Classics |
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The world has ended. A man and his boy are just trying to stay alive. They can trust no-one, they can't trust the food, they can't trust the land. They just keep following the road. The road, of course, is life, you don't need a degree in English Literature to figure that one out.
This is the first time I've read McCarthy. I saw No Country for Old Men at the cinema, and I heard about the Road winning awards, so I figured I'd give it ago. He's a very sparse writer. It would be hard to say there are characters in the novel as everything is reduced down to survival, and the main character is constantly at the point of giving up his principles and humanity in the face of everything he has lost, but hangs on for his boy. There ... Read More: >>More Details |
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To Kill a Mockingbirdby: Harper Lee October 05, 1989 Best Selling > Books > 20th Century Classics |
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It is perhaps appropriate that this was the first book I read after the election of America's first black President. My real reason for re-reading it, however, was for the purposes of comparison with Faulkner's "Intruder in the Dust", which deals with a similar theme. Indeed, I recently came across an allegation that Harper Lee's novel was essentially a plagiarism of Faulkner's.
The book is set in Maycomb County, Alabama, during the depression era of the 1930s. It is a first-person narrative told through the eyes of Jean Louise Finch who, for some reason, goes by the nickname Scout. Although she is only a child at the time of the events described, the narrative voice is that of the adult Jean Louise looking back at her childhood from ... Read More: >>More Details |
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The Catcher in the Ryeby: J. Salinger August 04, 1994 Best Selling > Books > 20th Century Classics |
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This book has it all, humour, anger and brilliant observations of life and people, that all of us can identify with.
The book is written in such an amateur style (but salinger knows what he is doing)that one has to warm to the character immediately. Great Book. >>More Details |
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A Mercyby: Toni Morrison October 30, 2008 Best Selling > Books > 20th Century Classics |
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In her latest novel Toni Morrison takes us back to the late 17th century America. The plot gives her an opportunity to present America in the making, there is no US yet, there are colonies, each somewhat different in their culture, religion or attitude to slavery. Morrison adroitly shapes the plot in such a way as to give the reader at least an impression of the variety that once was America, sending her characters on distant voyages. The differences are the most clearly visible in the opposition between Maryland and New York yet the choice of character also helps Morrison to stress the diversity of American roots.
And yet "A Mercy" is not just a historical novel. The setting is important but Morrison seems much more interested in her characters. This ... Read More: >>More Details |
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1984 Nineteen Eighty-Fourby: George Orwell January 29, 2004 Best Selling > Books > 20th Century Classics |
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Let's get the gracious comments out of the way... This is, without a doubt, the most ideologically-brilliant book I've ever read; so much so it's hard to believe this was written over 60 years ago. I just finished reading it on the bus this morning and, much to the oddity my friends, a cheeky grin was here all morning.
It has to be said though that the grin was built more on admiration for Orwells writing standards than the sad final sentence of the novel, for beneath the futuristic subject matter you may believe this entails lies a world of deception, propaganda, and violence - the harsh realities of a world that ceases to re-write history. I'm sure from the other reviewers you've got the jist of the plot. In a 3rd person narrative, we ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Lord of the Fliesby: William Golding June 03, 2002 Best Selling > Books > 20th Century Classics |
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Let me just say one thing; I am an avid reader. I love books. Whenever I begin reading, I cannot stop halfway through, even if it is an absolutely awful book. However, this book went beyond awful. It was so far past awful it made me want to throw up (and I wish I were exaggerating). Not just because the book is basically a doctoral thesis on human psychology wrapped in a plot stolen from 'The Coral Island', but mainly because it makes no sense.
Let's start at the beginning: The arrival. The pilot manages to safely land the plane on the one island in the middle of nowhere, while the cockpit is on fire. Having done this, the several tonne plane then washes out to sea, after all the boys have left, without a scratch on them. Not even a bruise, after an emergency crash ... Read More: >>More Details |
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The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics)by: F Scott Fitzgerald January 25, 2007 Best Selling > Books > 20th Century Classics |
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During the course of a year I am intending to return to classic novels. It would be unrealistic to try and rate these alongside new novels so I'm not even going to try - just simple reviews.
The power in Fitzgerald's writing is its starkness and sparsity. The Great Gatsby is a short novel by any standards but its power lies in the way the story creeps up on you. It's almost as if nothing seems to be happening but then you realise that in a very subtle way the action has carried you away. Set in the Jazz area on Long Island it's a story of greed, love and lust, violence where things are rarely what they seem. Fitzgerald weaves intrigue into the plot. We are never really sure about who Gatsby is and what brings him to Long Island. Like an Edward Hopper painting, ... Read More: >>More Details |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Popular Classics)by: Oscar Wilde January 25, 2007 Best Selling > Books > 20th Century Classics |
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By now, most people are aware of the basic plot of this book: young man foolishly wishes that, upon seeing his current beateous youth captured forever in a picture, he could remain in that moment of youth forever, and the picture age in his stead. Not only that, but the picture becomes twisted and cruel as a result of the callous hedonistic behaviour perpetrated by Gray in his perpetual youth. At first, Gray is horrified, but then finds himself submitting to it...
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a fantastic novel, so fantastic that it made me sad that the eminently quoteable Wilde has only written the one. At one point, a bad-influencing friend of Dorian's lends him a novel that Gray is charmed by, a novel that tells of a man who lives a hedonistic lifestyle, with care only for ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Of Mice and Men (Penguin Red Classics)by: John Steinbeck January 26, 2006 Best Selling > Books > 20th Century Classics |
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This is the first Steinbeck book I have read.
I look forward to reading many more. A simple and touching study of loneliness and all it entails. >>More Details |
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On Chesil Beachby: Ian McEwan January 03, 2008 Best Selling > Books > 20th Century Classics |
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This book is only receiving good reviews by people who think that they 'should' like it...because McEwan wrote it- rather like anything that is written by Rowling.
This is a terrible book. It is over-sentimental, and the characters are not at all like real people. Why pick 1962? Why pick two main characters that no-one can identify with? Read just the first and last page, and you know the story, the rest is Balderdash and Piffle. >>More Details |
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