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In first-person accounts, former residents of Chicago's public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high-rise apartments and the tone …
Nearly everyone collects something, even those who don’t think of themselves as collectors. William Davies King, on the other hand, …
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master, Mr Jones, and take over the farm themselves, they imagine …
This stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his …
Morris looks closely at the human species under the stresses and pressures of urban living.This study concerns the city dweller. …
Morris looks closely at the human species under the stresses and pressures of urban living.This …
Finished this one out of spite... every time he would say something somewhat smart he would immediately ruin it by what followed... truly the ramblings of an old man... I get it, humans are animals bla bla bla
According to The Waiter, eighty percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to eat. The remaining twenty …
Victoria is unraveling. Her best friend is missing, and she's the only one who seems …
Content warning ending
I liked the first two chapters, the author is good as setting the scene, I’ll give her that. I don’t get why it’s classified as a « thriller » because the disapearance happends quite early in the book and there is no evolution of the case outside the main character’s mind. At some point the character breaks the fourth wall for no reason, and goes into all sorts of rambling. In the end it’s a « it was all in her head, she is schizophrenic » and as much as I could see it coming it was such a let down…
"Margaret Atwood has frequently been cited as one of the foremost writers of our time. …
This was quite hard to follow. It’s a collection of short stories but all the chatacters intertwine, and I sometimes couldn’t figure out who was narrating. Yet I still finished it in a week so I guess it’s not all bad
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel written by Ken Kesey. Set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the …
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel written by Ken Kesey. Set in …
too many N words
really hard to get into the first half, I don't know why, maybe it's because I read the french translation or because it was a pocket format(?) second half was fun, few good plot twists
like the idea that it's written from the point of view of someone who doesn't talk and pretends not to hear
NB: I have never seen the movie
The stylish, exuberant, and remarkably sweet confession of one of the most famous groupies of …
why is the forward by dave navarro
Content warning last line of the book included
Very informative, some chapters (6th) are very math-focused and I had to read them slowly to understand. His critic of the urban renewal program in the USA (circa 1964) draws a grim - but fair - picture of the program, and it's very interesting. He calls out gentrification practices, yet the last line of the book left a sour taste in my mouth;
" The Federal Urban Renewal Program conceived in 1949 had admirable goals. Unfortunately it has not achieved them in the past and cannot achieve them in the future. Only free enterprise can. "
[eyeroll]
I feel like I've been fooled.
