Click The Cover Above To Buy This Book! A collection of stories that takes you closer to some people than you would ever normally want to go. Staked out in the territory of a blooming bruise, \’proximity alert\’ takes you Read more…
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This really is a beautifully written book — one of those that you read and are struck by the vivid colours in which everything is depicted. Some classics seem overly bound and anchored by the mores of the period in Read more…
I wasn\’t sure what to expect from this book which may be a stupid thing to say given how much I have read Mr Ellis, both in the form of his graphic novels and the regular missives from his website. Read more…
The Gambler is the story of Alexei Ivanovich, a tutor in the household of The General and his family. This was paired with Notes From The Underground: both of them being fairly short novels and stylistically similar — both of Read more…
I seem to remember this being recommended to me with a line like \’If you say you like Science Fiction then you need to read this.\’ It is different — it has a very different flavour to a lot of Read more…
Taken From Chuck\’s Official Site: Posted March 20th, 2008 by Dennis In emailing back and forth with Chuck earlier this week, I asked him what he\’s been up to. I might have been feeling him out for what he\’s been Read more…
I have been meaning for an age to read Dostoevsky and, having a literature degree, am slightly ashamed of myself that it has taken until now. I am of course reading a translation but I have to trust that it Read more…
I am so glad that I read this book before I watched the film because if not I wouldn\’t have bothered and I would have denied myself an entrance into the work of a wonderful writer. The film stripped away Read more…
As with a lot of the works by Herman Hesse this book is not large in regards to the number of pages but the largeness of the spirit contained within is immeasurable. Sometimes you read a book and you feel Read more…