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…
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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…
You find the beats, you find Fante, you\’re gonna find Bukowski. As a writer how can you not be drawn to him? It is arguable that he is one of the most influential out of any of that type of Read more…
My friend seemed to have almost the entire Herman Hesse library and I borrowed and read a fair proportion of it. This was the largest of all those books; Steppenwolf, The Prodigy and Klingsor\’s Last Summer being fairly slim volumes. Read more…
I must be on a books that inspired me kick at the moment — first Pay It Forward and then this, which I read around the same time. That was fiction and this is true. The other thing that both Read more…
I have to admit that when someone recommended to me that I read this book I was not very eager to take them up on their recommendation — there was something about it that just seemed a bit too touchy Read more…