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“A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” | 100 Word Reviews
Is selfishness an obligation of genius? If so then Stephen Dedalus, the focus of James Joyce’s brilliant semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man meets his responsibil… more →
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"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" | 100 Word Reviews
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wrote 4 months ago: Is selfishness an obligation of genius? If so then Stephen Dedalus, the focus of James Joyce’s … more →
December Reading - 100 Word Reviews
wrote 4 months ago: Lucy Gives It Up For The Boss by Jackie White (Pure Fantasy Books, Kindle Edition) ~ 1/5* Opening Li … more →
"Henry V" by William Shakespeare | 100 Word Reviews
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wrote 5 months ago: In Henry V, Shakespeare finds his “muse of fire” and she blinds us with her dazzling light. Henry V … more →
8 Halloween Books from Famous Authors | 100 Word Reviews
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wrote 6 months ago: Halloween is an excellent time to read a scary book, but you don’t have to read dreadful trash writt … more →
"The Virgin Suicides" by Jeffrey Eugenides | 100 Word Reviews
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wrote 8 months ago: In The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides tells the story of the five Lisbon sisters who kill themse … more →
"The Book of the New Sun" by Gene Wolfe | 100 Word Reviews
wrote 9 months ago: Fans of science fiction, with two weeks of glorious vacation reading time before them, could do much … more →
“As You Like It” by William Shakespeare | 100 Word Reviews
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wrote 10 months ago: In As You Like It, Shakespeare banishes all unhappiness, unless it springs from love. The play follo … more →
"Bring Up the Bodies" by Hilary Mantel | 100 Word Reviews
wrote 10 months ago: In Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel continues her speculation on the life of Thomas Cromwell – Mas … more →
"50 Shades of Grey" by E.L. James | 100 Word Reviews
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wrote 10 months ago: Holy cow, he’s rich and handsome. Holy crap, he makes me horny. Holy Moses, he’s got a s … more →
"Dead Souls" by Nikolai Gogol | 100 Word Reviews
wrote 10 months ago: Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls first gained fame as a caustic satire of Russian society when it was publ … more →
100-Word Review: Prometheus
wrote 10 months ago: As a not-prequel prequel to Alien, Prometheus often works. As a blockbusting space horror, Prometheu … more →
“To the Lighthouse” by Virginia Woolf | 100 Word Reviews
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wrote 10 months ago: Modernists can have a high strike-out to home-run ratio – but Woolf knocks it clean out of the park … more →
"The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara | 100 Word Reviews
wrote 11 months ago: In The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara tells the story of the Battle of Gettysburg during its three mo … more →
“State of Wonder” by Ann Patchett | 100 Word Reviews
wrote 11 months ago: Anne Tyler meets Michael Crichton in Ann Patchett’s 2011 novel, State of Wonder. Dr. Marina Singh, a … more →
"The Wings of the Dove" by Henry James | 100 Word Reviews
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wrote 11 months ago: I had a long slow argument with Henry James while reading The Wings of the Dove. Was he an immortal … more →
"Pnin" by Vladimir Nabokov | 100 Word Reviews
wrote 11 months ago: The one true moral responsibility of literature is to strengthen our imaginative sympathy for other … more →
The Aubrey-Maturin Novels by Patrick O’Brian | 100 Word Reviews
wrote 11 months ago: Memorable characters in the persons of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin; mastery of a sprawling 2,000 … more →
100 Word Review - The Sense of an Ending
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wrote 1 year ago: I recently posted about the evolution of the cover design of Julian Barnes’ 2011 Booker winner … more →
100 Word Review - The Final Solution
wrote 1 year ago: An intriguing premise: the last case of an elderly, retired to the coast Sherlock Holmes, investigat … more →
