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ranch2go's Reviews (14)
Walden is permanently ingrained to be a running joke with a dear friend from high school. Will forever miss drawing crappy trackpad sketches of nature scenes for AP Lang chapter reviews. I hope to live my Walden life in Scotland or wherever else I can walk around with seeing a McDonalds or gas station on every corner.
I don’t think I can put my thoughts into a simple rating. This book highlights the deep trauma from abuse, and how quiet this can happen to those around you without you knowing. This book further highlights the class divide and how unreachable healthcare, physical and mental, is for millions of Americans. A real testament to the horrors your own family can conflict.
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Alike to 1984, Brave New World has a “holy shit so this is how it ends” conclusion to the story. The fewer happy endings this genre has, the harder the message will hit. Class division is taken to the extreme, and while still a book about totalitarian control, used escapism instead of voluntary or forced ignorance to maintain control as seen in 1984. History has been very consistent with the “well MY life is good and I’M not being affected so I see no reason why I should care about the misfortune of others” mentality. The U.S, embarrassment of a country and land of the selfish, has this on full display in 2025.
dark
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Orwell is rolling around in his grave. He could not have been clearer in his warning yet this country has succumbed to the beginning of the end. I consider myself lucky to have completed my secondary education when I did, or else none of the most formative books to the development of my world view would have been allowed. I will never forget his words or how important they are, which is exactly why he is now on a banned book list.
- 2025
- 2025
informative
reflective
medium-paced
One of two books used to support my HS senior thesis “How the U.S Government can Combat the Dark Web.” One of the most formative books for myself. Every year we drift further away from forming human connections. Phone addiction is real. Doomscrolling rots the brain and is being ingrained into children to satiate themselves as such by parents who don’t want the responsibility of raising them. Children are being exposed to social media and the internet at too young of an age and are being put af risk. Parents are exploiting them to strangers for likes.
“In time, when we are immersed in our smart homes, when we are attached to wearable technology, when children are in “[c]apptivity” seats or other-world immersing helmets, when we compete with robots for jobs, when our darkest desires have colonized cyberspace, and when we no longer have a distinct sense of self, perhaps then we might wish that we payed more attention to how technology, with no sense of regulation be it government or self, was affecting us.“
“In time, when we are immersed in our smart homes, when we are attached to wearable technology, when children are in “[c]apptivity” seats or other-world immersing helmets, when we compete with robots for jobs, when our darkest desires have colonized cyberspace, and when we no longer have a distinct sense of self, perhaps then we might wish that we payed more attention to how technology, with no sense of regulation be it government or self, was affecting us.“
— Me, 2019. I thought I was so cool, but I did hit a lot of facts. Basically described cyberpunk.
TLDR: Parent your children instead of giving them devices.
TLDR: Parent your children instead of giving them devices.
adventurous
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
ouchie
adventurous
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
A book ladled with stories of Circe being taken advantage of by a number of beings. I really didn’t see any fault in her. Take away the greek mythology aspect and the book becomes a story about the necessary defense systems exhibited by women every day.
Was not prepared for how the minotaur came to be. Didn’t really care to put much thought into it before and I have intentionally not put thought into it after.
Was not prepared for how the minotaur came to be. Didn’t really care to put much thought into it before and I have intentionally not put thought into it after.
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
The story that started it all. What brought us the infamous game and movie “Clue,” along with various spinoffs in various pieces of media (personally enjoy the Family Guy rendition). You read along always wondering who will go next, and the pace quickens near the end to immerse the reader into a Sherlock-esque re-telling of a crime.
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Phenomenal work of art detailing two individuals recognizing their faults and learning to be better, for themselves and for each other.
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
I was hoping for something a bit more supernatural than it was, but it serves as a reminder that Christie grounds her work in reality and aims to explain that what is perceived as unnatural is just something not understood yet. I liked riding along with the main character and those who grew close to him.
“The science of tomorrow is the supernatural of today.”
“The science of tomorrow is the supernatural of today.”