Tag Archives: classics

Book Review: The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

Posted on January 17, 2017 by Tietsu

Dashiel Hammet put me off the whole hard-boiled detective/noir genre. I’ve always loved the idea. Simplicity, attitude, and a touch of the literary. It’s a tough world, riddled with greys. What joy there is in hardening the souls of your … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon

Posted on December 8, 2016 by Tietsu

I read Stapledon’s Star Maker several years ago and I was unimpressed. This is the equivalent of walking to up the outside of the Sistine Chapel and saying, “Okay?” Stapledon is put on something of a pedestal within the literary … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Notes From a Dead House by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Tietsu

There seems to be a sort academic predisposition of hatred towards Pavear and Volokhonsky. It’s a strange thing, one I neither understand nor want to. People seem utterly baffled by a literal translation that forces one to endure turns of … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Posted on November 24, 2016 by Tietsu

The Martian Chronicles is a series of short stories and vignettes following humanity’s hypothetical exploration and eventual colonization of Mars. It’s an interesting concept written by one of the strongest sci-fi writer’s of the 20th century. Problem is, it’s less … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Necronomicon by H.P. Lovecraft

Posted on November 17, 2016 by Tietsu

Armed with an egregiously large penchant for ten dollar words and a masterful ability to leverage every cent from the pay-per-word pulp magazines, Lovecraft stands among a skeletally thin pantheon of serial writers who have managed to cross their own … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Tietsu

I don’t really have a roadmap when it comes to the books I read, it comes largely down to availability and perhaps more honestly, whimsy. The Man Who Fell to Earth is one of the wonderful gems that such a … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Watership Down by Richard Adams

Posted on November 8, 2016 by Tietsu

There are certain things you aren’t supposed to do in literature. I had always figured mixing (a sort of ) realism with non-human characters was something of a no-no. Sure, you could have the fantastical and all too human blood-splattering … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Tietsu

Initially, I wasn’t sure how well this book was going to work. It supposedly dealt with the same existential issues as Dandelion Wine, but simultaneously tells a story meant to inspire horror. Obviously, it’s possible, it’s just a tricky business … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Tietsu

I didn’t expect this book. Perhaps, more accurately it was Ray Bradbury I didn’t expect. Way back in school I had read a short story of his in some slim anthology of stories about I-don’t-know-what. What I do remember is … Continue reading →

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Book Review: A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde

Posted on October 20, 2016 by Tietsu

There are a great many things to hate about high society and I’m not just saying that as a plebeian proletariat. From decadence to the disconnect they seem to feel with the rest of humanity, there is no shortage of … Continue reading →

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