I read this in about three days...I thought it was going to take me three weeks! I featured this on my Classics I want to read in 2018 well, early 2019 counts. I didn't know a great deal about the book prior to reading it. I knew it was a cult classics with a dystopian narrative. But that's where my knowledge ended. I had no idea how many…
I'm shocked by just how much I enjoyed this book, I thought I was going to hate it. I haven't had the best experience with the University reading I've had to do of late so this was a pleasant surprise. It filled me with a similar feeling that Man in the High Castle and Fahrenheit 451 did. Fear at the plausibility. Swastika Night is set in a future…
The astute among you will have noticed that a November Wrap Up was missing last month...that was because I read hardly anything to warrant a wrap up. Honestly, December wasn't much better! This years University reading has certainly been a slog... I can't believe how much I enjoyed this! I read it so quickly and was shocked. I missed the story when I had to put it down,…
I can't quite say I enjoyed this one. It was a fast read but it wasn't that good. At least in my opinion. The first sixty or so pages was fine, a typical bank heist and after that it just got very confusing and difficult to figure out what was going on. The final chapter in particular was just a mess of all sorts of random things. I…
I didn't anticipate enjoying this. I'd made my peace with the fact I have disliked the vast majority of the books I've had to read for my courses this semester. Then this one appears...and I loved it. It was such a quick read, which none of the others had been. I missed not being able to read it when I was at work or in a lecture. However,…