Thursday, June 18, 2009

One sentence book reviews!

Just finished reading several very good books and here are my reviews—

Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse: Loved the novel's examination of the middle-class mindset & really enjoyed it except for the unclear ending; main character would probably be labelled as bi-polar in the modern era.

Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist: This novel was unbelievably creepy, extremely well written and has a very unique take on the vampire genre.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz: Tremendously good read and the prose reads like a comedic and heartfelt conversation with dudes hanging on the street back in Bridgeport.

Currently reading Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

2 comments:

B.STANK said...

Im really glad you liked LTROI...I heard about Oscar Wao, need to check it out! And you're reading Chuck now? Damn...I havent read Invisible Monsters yet...but his other stuff it out of control!

John A. Walsh said...

Yeah...my Palahniuk review won't be nice!