Category Archives: book reviews

Oct
23
2008

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Book Review

Things Fall Apart is an easy to read book. It’s quite small, and you can probably polish it off in a day or two. The phrase “less is more” is definitely something that comes to mind in this marvelous piece of literature.
The story follows an African tribesman named Okonkwo and his life in Africa. [...]

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Oct
21
2008

What Is Your Excuse

Picture from NYT Website, Cause I can’t travel to Colombia right now.
I have heard it all in my days. I’m not very old, but I’m not incredibly dumb or very young. The more people I talk to, the more I realize that Americans just don’t like to read, and don’t like to think. (This notion [...]

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Oct
07
2008

Top 50 Books To Read

So here you go, the top 1,000 books is a massive list, so I decided to take the top 50 books from my 1,000 book list and post them here. here you go, a fine start on your way to reading more. Not bad if you ask me. Each item is linked to a place [...]

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Oct
02
2008

The Time Machine by H G Wells Book Review

Another classic book in the can as I try to get the most out of the years I spent learning how to read. I thought this book would be a nice departure from some of the serious reading that have been doing, and since I’m not always doing science fiction reading (I do a lot [...]

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Sep
30
2008

A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway Review

I hate war movies, mostly because they are long and drawn out and lack any real character study outside of “team” or “group” efforts. Never is it really about one person, and most of the time the movie really tries to entertain on the “action” level rather than connecting raw emotion and paralleling psychology. Sure [...]

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