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“Spare” By Prince Harry Review

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It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow—and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling—and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last.

It very important to say at the beginning of this review that this book wasn’t written by Prince Harry but rather it was written by a ghost-writer named J.R. Moehringer.

This book being written by a ghostwriter is the first red flag about this book. Because during the release of this book, there was one interview with Prince Harry where he said that he have written this book himself which was bull shit because it wasn’t written by him.

The another red flag about this book is how Prince Harry is trying to paint himself as the angel amongst humans who have never done anything bad in his entire life. And instead he is painting Prince William as the devil who is the ultimately evil and jealous person.

The third flag in this book is that Prince Harry paints himself as the victim of everything rather than admitting to his own mistakes. Like that time when he went naked and smoked Pot in Las Vegas, in this book he says that he didn’t want to do it but his friends and alcohol made him do it. Jesus, take some damn responsibility for your own actions and don’t play the victim card.

In this book Prince Harry also talks the majority of the time how much he is insulted about having a role in the royal family but that role not being the primary role. And very good example of this is already at the beginning of this book at page 6. This part really made me pissed off, because most of us aren’t born into the royal family and not get to live in castles, travel the world, get paid for doing nothing but we don’t complain about this. But Prince Harry complains that he gets to do anything he wants to, and where money isn’t a problem for him but not get to be a king. 

When we get to the last part of this book, Prince Harry starts to complain how his brother Prince William and his wife didn’t answer his text immediately after he had texted either of them. I don’t know if Prince Harry understand this but people get very busy at times and can’t answer your text or call right away. Prince William and his wife have kids and probably have things to do which means that they can’t always answer him right away.

Another red flag about this book is how he tried to portray himself as the true heir of Diana. Because there are many times where this book goes “I inherit this from her, my eye colour is just like hers, I have the same passions as her and I don’t like the same things as her”. This really make me sad for him, because of how pathetic he is. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“The Yellow Wall-Paper” By Charlotte Perkins Gilman Review

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Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency” after the birth of her child, a woman is urged to rest for the summer in an old colonial mansion. Forbidden from doing work of any kind, she spends her days in the house’s former nursery, with its barred windows, scratched floor, and peeling yellow wallpaper. In a private journal, the woman records her growing obsession with the “horrid” wallpaper. Its strange pattern mutates in the moonlight, revealing what appears to be a human figure in the design. With nothing else to occupy her mind, the woman resolves to unlock the mystery of the wallpaper. Her quest, however, leads not to the truth, but into the darkest depths of madness.

This book is very short, it’s around 65 pages depending on what copy of this book you get.

The plot in this book was painfully bad. Because it is about a mentally fragile woman who over time slide into madness. The plot felt like it portrayed when as weak and is only able to relay on men to help them and make them happy. Which really made me very angry.

This book was very repetitive and it for the most part repeated the same thing over and over. Which really made me very uninterested and bored.

The ending here is very confusing, and after reading the ending 2 times I still have no idea what happened there because it was all over the place and very confusing.

The main character here was awful, because all she did in this book was either complain to her husband or cry over the wall-paper. Which really annoyed me very much so.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Kick-Ass” By Mark Millar Review

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The greatest super hero story of all time is finally here! Acclaimed writer Mark Millar (“Wanted”) and award-winning artist John Romita Jr. (“Amazing Spider-Man”) unite for one of 21st century’s most outrageous and acclaimed series! Dave Lizewski is just an ordinary American teenager. He has a MySpace page, he loves comic books, and he is unable to find a girlfriend. Then an idea hits him: why not become a real life super hero? Soon, his life will never be the same again. Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman, “Kick-Ass” starts where other super hero stories draw the line, taking comic book realism to a whole new level! Warning: This title is for adults only!

To be fully honest I was never a fan of “kick-ass” neither this comics nor the movie. At the same time I haven’t read many comics but this has to be the worst comics I read so far.

The plot of this book is intriguing to say at least. A teen without any fighting skills decides to dress in mask and Halloween costume and start acting like a superhero at night because he is bored.

In my opinion the plot was very weak, and there were some logic holes like how will a teenager without any fighting skills save people ? The proper answer to this question is that he will not save anyone but rather get killed himself. 

The characters are pretty weak as well. But this is a comic book so we don’t get to know them in the same level as we do while reading a book.

This book is very boring and uninteresting. However the art in a way makes up for it. But not so much as to make me give this comic a higher rating.

This comics is very hollow to read, because other than the good drawings there isn’t anything good to say about this one.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“The Library of Greek Mythology” By Apollodorus Review

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Apollodorus’ Library has been used as a source book by classicists from the time of its compilation in the 1st-2nd century BC to the present, influencing writers from antiquity to Robert Graves. It provides a complete history of Greek myth, telling the story of each of the great families of heroic mythology, and the various adventures associated with the main heroes and heroines, from Jason and Perseus to Heracles and Helen of Troy. As a primary source for Greek myth, as a reference work, and as an indication of how the Greeks themselves viewed their mythical traditions, the Library is indispensable to anyone who has an interest in classical mythology.

I had some expectations for this book, but this book didn’t live up to them.

I am interested in mythology but maybe greek mythology isn’t for me. I tried reading this book but I ended up DNF-ing this book after like 120 pages because I just couldn’t read anymore.

This book focuses a lot on genealogy which in a way annoyed me and frustrated me. 

This book is about giving us a brief overview of the major mythological events in Ancient Greece but it was very dry and uninteresting. 

This book felt like reading a religious book and not a book about mythology which really annoyed me and it was the main reason why I DNF-ed it. But also the times it didn’t eellike a religious book it felt more like a wikipedia page in a from of a book.

The writing style is very old, you can tell it from the first page. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Motive X” By Stefan Ahnhem Review

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Detective Fabian Risk’s daughter is in a coma at Helsingborg hospital. It’s Risk’s fault for getting her involved in his last investigation – and the guilt is crippling. A MURDERED BOY. 

This book started of good but it quickly went down the hill for me personally and I just ended up DNF-ing it after like 47%. Which is sad because I personally hate DNF-ing mystery and thriller books. 

The plot here is okay in the beginning but it goes fast to being overwhelming and I personally had super hard time keeping track of everything which was happening and of who was who. 

There are many investigations in this book and the main investigation of this book basically gets thrown to the side for the majority of this book.

For me all of the characters kept blending in together and I just couldn’t tell them apart which was the biggest reason why I DNF-ed this book. 

All of the characters in this book are very weak and it is almost impossible to tell them apart which I already pointed out above. 

The writing style in this book was very weak and I just didn’t like it. It felt like it was written by a fresh author in the game which isn’t true because the author of this book have written multiple books before this one. And this book is the fourth book in a series named “Fabian Risk”. Which might be the reason why I didn’t like this book and why I DNF-ed it. Because beginning a series in the middle is a bad call. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Cujo” By Stephen King Review

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Outside a peaceful town in central Maine, a monster is waiting. Cujo is a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. One day, Cujo chases a rabbit into a cave inhabited by sick bats and emerges as something new altogether. Meanwhile, Vic and Donna Trenton, and their young son Tad, move to Maine. They are seeking peace and quiet, but life in this small town is not what it seems. As Tad tries to fend off the terror that comes to him at night from his bedroom closet, and as Vic and Donna face their own nightmare of a marriage on the rocks, there is no way they can know that a monster, infinitely sinister, waits in the daylight.

I had a lot of expectations for this book which it didn’t live up to. Which really disappointed me because it was written by Stephen King my all time favourite author by far.

The story line in this book was not the greatest to be honest. The main theme in this book is a rabid dog named Cujo but we only see Cujo in 5% of this book. And the rest of it is just characters running around and freaking out about different things. Which really bored me out while reading it.

The characters in this book are very flat, very boring and very annoying. Which is the worst possible combination to ever exist. 

This book was one of Stephen King’s earliest books so I can give him a pass on this book. This book was also written during the time where Stephen King had alcohol problems. 

The writing style in this book really dint feel like something written by Stephen King. It might be because of the alcohol problems which I’ve talked already about. 

This book has over 400 pages but I read it in one day which means that it is a quick read once you make up your mind to read it in one day. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“The Cabin at the End of the World” By Paul Tremblay Review

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Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road. One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is young, friendly, and he wins her over almost instantly. Leonard and Wen talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologizes and tells Wen, “None of what’s going to happen is your fault”. Three more strangers then arrive at the cabin carrying unidentifiable, menacing objects. As Wen sprints inside to warn her parents, Leonard calls out: “Your dads won’t want to let us in, Wen. But they have to. We need your help to save the world.”

This book had the generic horror plot and set up as you could imagine. 

The plot here is a family going on a vacation to a cabin in the middle of nowhere. Not that much unique. 

To be honest this book started great but it somehow went quickly flat. Which really disappointed me personally.

This book had lots of potential but it didn’t of course use it which really is sad. 

The characters here are very flat and you just can’t relate to them cuz it is obvious that they aren’t real people and that they were made for just being killed off at some point. 

The written style here was very weak here but it had some good moments here and there. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Slow Horses” By Mick Herron Review

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London, England: Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their failed careers. The “slow horses,” as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can’t be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle—not unusual in this line of work. One thing they all have in common, though, is they all want to be back in the action. And most of them would do anything to get there─even if it means having to collaborate with one another.

Maybe the world of secret agents isn’t for me. Because it was the first book about a secret agent I’ve read and I ended up DNF-ing it pretty fast. 

The plot here wasn’t my type to be honest. I had super hard time trying to get into the plot. My main problem with this plot is that is overly complicated. And the beginning of this book is very very slow. 

The use of acronyms and nicknames was irritating because it was overused and it was super confusing trying yo remember who had which nickname and what these different acronyms meant in this book.

Characters in this book to be honest feel like the same person just using different clothes. There are couple of characters in this book and I just can’t name one of them because I just didn’t care for them and I just couldn’t find myself to even try to like them. 

The main character feels more like a side character because a whole chapter can go by without the main character being even mentioned- 

The writing style here was probably the best part of this book but still I felt like there was something missing here. The writing style here felt over complicated and it felt like it was written as a school textbook rather than a mystery / thriller book

This book is very chaotic and very confusing. I personnel had super hard time trying to focus on the plot which almost didn’t exist in this book. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Roadside Crosses” By Jeffery Deaver Review

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Roadside crosses are appearing along the highways of the Monterey Peninsula, not as memorials to past accidents but as markers for fatalities yet to come and someone, armed with information gleaned from careless and all-too-personal blog postings, intends to carry out those killings. Kathryn Dance and her C.B.I. team know when the attacks will take place, but who will be the victims? Her body language expertise leads her to a recent fatal car crash, and to the driver, Travis Brigham, a gaming-obsessed teen who’s become the target of vicious cyberbullies. And when Travis disappears, Kathryn must lead a furious manhunt in the elusive world of bloggers and social networking, where nothing is as it seems.

This book is full of very boring and uninteresting moments which pretty much kill the desire to find out how it ends.

The ending of this was pretty okay for the most part but the further you get into this book the more boring it becomes. I personally DNF-ed it after having read 72%. 

The plot here was bad. Because it felt like it was a tutorial on how to use internet and  tutorial on blogs, social media, shortcuts, how to use internet and what teens do on the Internet but in a crime / mystery form.

This book was very slow and there was almost 0 action in this book which really made it a tortures read. 

The characters her were very flat. To be fully honest here every characters seemed as the same person and it is almost impossible to tell them apart. 

This book had a ridiculous overuse of word “like” which was in almost every sentence which really got annoying after awhile. 

The writing style here was super bad as well. Because it overused some specific words. But also it repeated the same things over and over again in every chapter. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“A Room of One’s Own” By Virginia Woolf Review

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A Room of One’s Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October, 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women’s colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled Women and Fiction, and hence the essay, are considered nonfiction. The essay is seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.

My first book written by Virginia Woolf and I gotta say that I wasn’t a big fan of this book. This book might be a bad place to start the journey with Virginia Wolf but at least it is a start with her works.

This book is more of are couple of feminist essays than rather a book. But it was a quick read overall. 

I can’t say that it was enjoyable or interesting read for me personally but it was defiantly a read which will give you some ideas on how life was back in the late 20s when this book was first published. 

The writing style was good and super old timey which I personnel love. But I felt like Virginia Woolf could have put a little more effort into it or it might be me who is being very picky. 

In this essays, Virginia Woolf tackled themes about women and fiction and the impact of privilege. Which were interesting to read but not super fun to read. Because to me felt like I was back in middle school and listening to a lecture about a topic I didn’t care about. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5