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121 reviews
Animal Farm by George Orwell
dark
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Scrum Mastery: From Good to Great Servant Leadership by Geoff Watts
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
Dubliners by James Joyce
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
dark
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Wasn't sure what this would be like - on one hand, it's *Agatha Christie*; on the other, people have told me it's not particularly good.
A pleasant surprise: a nice murder mystery that was pretty enjoyable to read with many twists and turns and was exactly what it said on the tin.
A pleasant surprise: a nice murder mystery that was pretty enjoyable to read with many twists and turns and was exactly what it said on the tin.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
challenging
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
dark
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
It just wasn't very good. Yes, it sure was a seminal work in describing a kind of dystopia that comes about from an intended utopia, but it never actually got around to being a story. It was just...a whole lot of not much.
The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
adventurous
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
Knight Stalker: A Short Story in Three Parts by A.C. RodrÃguez
I....can see what the author is going for. It's meant to be a supernatural reflection on the sins of a killer. It's meant to combine that jarring, theological, literary prose with mysterious, short expositions of dialogue. You don't know these people (or beings I guess) and you are never told, but you are transported to this other plane where the words don't matter or make sense individually but you realise you've gotten through 3 pages of dense prose off nothing but vibes.
It just does not land at all. Not even slightly. It rushes into the obvious (oh you're some sort of god/devil/angel/being) and then all the cards are immediately put onto the table and there is no break before it jumps into the vaguery. Could this be done well in a short story? Probably. But the prose...it's almost painful. I would call it bad edgy fanfiction.
It reminds me of Gerald's Game by Stephen King, where the entire novel (sure, in that there are 400 pages) is a reflection of a singular person with a back and forth...but even if I really didn't like Gerald's Game, King has the ability to write those rambling paragraphs of prose that don't mean anything but you are absolutely absorbed. Unfortunately this book does not.
Sorry.
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
But, I am atop you, sucking up from yourflesh-blade all your maleness and genetic seed into my matrix-binary-coded wombwhich gives birth in the ether-collective-mind; my mad sex convulses out your very souljust for a moment toward my angel-star
Satan, for that's precisely who she is, harrumphs
The Devil farts
I....can see what the author is going for. It's meant to be a supernatural reflection on the sins of a killer. It's meant to combine that jarring, theological, literary prose with mysterious, short expositions of dialogue. You don't know these people (or beings I guess) and you are never told, but you are transported to this other plane where the words don't matter or make sense individually but you realise you've gotten through 3 pages of dense prose off nothing but vibes.
It just does not land at all. Not even slightly. It rushes into the obvious (oh you're some sort of god/devil/angel/being) and then all the cards are immediately put onto the table and there is no break before it jumps into the vaguery. Could this be done well in a short story? Probably. But the prose...it's almost painful. I would call it bad edgy fanfiction.
It reminds me of Gerald's Game by Stephen King, where the entire novel (sure, in that there are 400 pages) is a reflection of a singular person with a back and forth...but even if I really didn't like Gerald's Game, King has the ability to write those rambling paragraphs of prose that don't mean anything but you are absolutely absorbed. Unfortunately this book does not.
Sorry.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Rape, Murder