Category: Book review

Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickens’s previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughter and helpmate, Amy, or Little Dorrit, the novel charts the progress of the Dorrit family from poverty to riches. In his Introduction, David Gates argues that “intensity of imagination is the gift from which Dickens’s other great attributes his eye and ear, his near-universal empathy, his ability to entertain both a sense of the ridiculous and a sense of ultimate significance.”

I need to admit that I was a little bit scared of reading this book because of the size of this book and how long ago it was published. I was scared of getting into this book because I was afraid that I would hate this book. But after reading this book I need to admit that this book wasn’t bad as I thought it would have been. If you are interested in hearing my thoughts about this book, then keep reading this review of mine.

The plot in this book, is pretty decent. For the most part of plot here is pretty interesting for the most part. But at times the plot in this book would drag out for way too long. Which really annoyed me a lot because the plot would have pages about stuff which didn’t matter for the plot. Because the moment does long moments come to pass they are simply forgotten and to not be talked again later in the book.

For the most part the plot in this book is pretty decent as I’ve said above. For the most part the plot here was pretty decent and fun to read. But there were also a lot of moments where the plot would focus pages on things which didn’t lead the plot anywhere.

This book is a very slow book, because there isn’t a lot which happens in this book other than getting long descriptions of things and read about people talking a lot in the old English style which people used in 1857.

The characters in this book aren’t the best. There are a lot of characters in this book and I had a really hard time keeping track of the characters and telling them apart in this book. And if you read some of my reviews in the past you will know that this a huge no-no for me personally if I have hard time telling the characters apart from each other in a book.

At the same time the characters we get in this book aren’t that good. All of the characters in this book felt to me like they were variations of the same character, because of hard time I had keeping track of the characters and because all of the characters in this book seemed very similar to each other and they didn’t have anything that would make them unique or stand out from the rest of the characters we do get in this book.

Each of the characters in this book have their separate lives which intertwine which each others during the plot line in this book. But I gotta admit even thou those characters have their own lives they still seem like the same person to me but a different backstory. 

The writing style in this book is very generic to Charles Dickens, which means that he uses a lot of words to describe things which could have been described in way less shorter form and with less words used. Charles Dickens likes to use a lot of words in his books and this book isn’t any different from his other books I’ve read.

I need to admit here that this book isn’t the best Charles Dickens book I’ve read, but at the same time it isn’t the worst. This book is very average Charles Dickens book.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

In New Atlantis, Bacon portrayed a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge, expressing his aspirations and ideals for humankind. The novel depicts the creation of a utopian land where “generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendour, piety and public spirit” are the commonly held qualities of the inhabitants of the mythical Bensalem. The plan and organisation of his ideal college, Salomon’s House (or Solomon’s House), envisioned the modern research university in both applied and pure sciences.

This book is a utopia themed book which really surprised me a lot in how bad it is. I tend to like utopia books like The Hunger Games and Ready Player One. So when I got to this book I had some high expectations for this book which it didn’t live up to.

The vision this book has for a future society is very ridiculous. Because the way this book describes a utopian society made me think “I don’t need to be Nostradamus to know that this shit will never happen”. 

The reason why I say this book is ridiculous is because the characters in this book considers the Africans to be the ‘little foul ugly Spirits of Fornication’, the American Indians super ‘savage’ and the Chinese ‘foolish’. As you can notice that book throws into the plot very wide generalizations about people with different ethnicities.

The plot in this book seems very stereotypical and like it was written as orthodox christian propaganda. Which really made me like this book less than I already did.

The writing style in this book is pretty weak. Because it felt like the author of this book didn’t know what he was doing. And even the writing style in this book feels like a pure orthodox christian propaganda. Which I personally hate the most in books when the book turns out to be an religious propaganda book.

However this book had some good moments throughout this book, but those moments were pretty rare. Because most of the time this book felt like reading a torture device in literature form.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

Breakfast at Tiffany’s is the story of Holly Golightly, a hill-billy turned Manhattan playgirl, and the eclectic circle of friends who surround her. The unnamed narrator of the story is a young writer from a small town, out on his own for the first time. He lives in a New York brownstone and dreams of literary success.

I need to admit here that the only reason why I read this book, is because I have heard a lot of good things about this book. But after reading it I gotta admit that this book isn’t as good as good as the hype on the internet makes it out to be. But of course am gonna explain everything in this review, so if you are interested in my thoughts about this book, then keep reading.

The story in this book, was pretty interesting and had a huge potential to turn this whole book to an amazing book. But Truman Capote didn’t use the potential the story had to actually make this book to an really good book.

The story in this book was very interesting as I’ve said above. But at times the story tended to drag out for unnecessary long time which made it boring at times for me personally. But there were times where the storyline in this book was very good and enjoyable. Which pretty much left me split between the facts or liking this book and not liking this book.

The writing style in this book is pretty okay. I wasn’t a big fan of the writing style in this book but at same time the writing style was bad bad. Since in my time I have seen some very bad writing styles in books and the writing style in this book isn’t half as bad as the bad writing styles I have seen in my time.

The characters in this book were okay for the most part. I found the characters to be interesting and fun for the most part. But I just didn’t care about what happened to them which means that I wasn’t a big fan of the characters in this book. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

In the story, a practical-minded narrator meets a railway worker who has been seeing supernatural visions. The narrator doubts the man at first, but at the story’s conclusion a strange event makes him a believer.

I gotta admit here that I wasn’t a big fan of this book. Ive heard a lot of good about this book and after reading this book I gotta say that this book doesn’t live fully up to the hype I’ve heard about it. But of course I will explain everything in this review so if you are interested about my thoughts on this book then keep reading.

The storyline in this book is pretty good. Because it is interesting, enjoyable and it has the eerie vibe to it which I really liked. But I gotta admit that the storyline at times was dragging out the action way too much for my liking.

The eerie vibe I mentioned above is very rare in this book in my opinion. But when it is present its very good and I really liked it the few rare times we get the eerie vibe in this book.

The storyline in this book is pretty straightforward and there isn’t any plot twists or big reveals in the plot. During reading this book you will come across a lot of questions, some of those questions will be answered by the time you finish reading this book, but a lot of those questions wont be answered. Because the author of this book tries in a way make you as a reader answer those questions from your beliefs, opinions and thoughts. I liked this aspect of the book because it leaves a lot up to us as readers to decide how we want to answer those questions from our own beliefs, thoughts and opinions

The characters in this book are very few. The characters we do get in this book are okay for the most part but if you want me to be honest here, I wasn’t the fan of the characters we got in this book. Because I felt like there was something missing when it came to them are characters. And I had a hard time liking the characters in this book or finding them to be relatable. 

I think that a big part of that was how the characters were written in this book. The characters in this book were written in this very old timey way which really which of course is explained by the fact that this book was published in 1866. 

The writing style in this book is very old timey, but in my opinion the writing style is the best part of this book. Because the writing style plays very well with the eerie vibe the storyline tries to set because of how moody the writing style is because of the old English.

Even thou I wasnt a big fan of this book I gotta admit that I am happy that I read this book because a part of me found this book to be interesting and enjoyable.

I Give This Book 3 / 5