triptych_turning's Reviews (146)

Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

Carlo Rovelli

5.0

challenging funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

Dubliners

James Joyce

3.5

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised Edition: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

Thomas C. Foster

4.0

Frankenstein: Or `the Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text

Mary Shelley

4.5

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller

5.0

dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The Dream Thieves

Maggie Stiefvater

4.0

adventurous dark emotional inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

3.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

4.0

challenging dark emotional funny medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Contact

Carl Sagan

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

If you're ever looking at my Storygraph, and you choose to read one book, please please please make it this one. I do not have the words to describe how much I adore this book. It scratched an internal psychoemotional itch I did not even know I had. It's quicker, cheaper, and more immediately rewarding than therapy. I read it in about four days, returned it to the library, and checked it out again about a week later so I could reread it. There is not a single part of this book that I disliked. I would invest in a nice hardcover edition of this book just so I could annotate it. Please read Contact by Carl Sagan. You will not regret it.

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