Review: The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

In The Year of the Flood, Atwood does something unusual: she writes a book that’s set in the same time and place as her previous book, Oryx and Crake, but from the perspectives of different characters (see my review here). In an interview on Amazon, she says that one reason for this was to address…

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Normally, if I don’t understand a book I’m not going to enjoy it.  I also don’t like writing that’s weird for the sake of being weird.  Slaughterhouse Five was different.  It’s funny and strange and tragic and an easy read, all at the same time. Slaughterhouse Five is at first told from the point of…

Review: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

For me, there are two indicators of a good book.  One is that as soon as I finish it, I want to go back and reread the first few chapters.  Two is that I find myself thinking about the book days after I’ve put it down. Oryx and Crake was that kind of book. The…

Review: Under the Dome by Stephen King

What can I say about Under the Dome?  It’s a Stephen King novel.  It’s fast-paced, disturbing, and full of every-day stuff that scares the pants off of you because yes, it can happen to you. This is what King is good at.  He takes something impossible, like a dome cutting off a town from the…

Review: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

I read Fahrenheit 451 in two days this weekend.  There aren’t many books that make you see the world differently when you’re done, and for me this was one of them. The book tells the story of Montag, a fireman, in a near-future American town.  In this near future, books are illegal, the government controls…