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“Alien” By Alan Dean Foster Review

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Based on the screenplay by Dan O’Bannon. The crew of the spaceship Nostromo wake from cryogenic sleep to distress signals from an unknown planet. One is attacked when they investigate a derelict alien craft. Safely on their way back to Sol, none foresee the real horror about to begin.

So another boring science fiction book about aliens killing everyone on board of a space ship. 

I need to say that I’m not a fan og science fiction genre no matter if we are talking about books, movies or video games. The science fiction genre is not something for me.

This book is the first Alien Movie Novelisations, which isn’t that great as the movie itself as you can expect. To be honest here with you the movie wins over this book in every single way you can imagine to look at it.

The writing style is boring and very poorly used. Its also very simplistic and it feels like it was written by a high school students writing this book in a huge rush. 

When it comes to the scary part of this book when the Alien is chasing and killing every human on board the ship. Then you have to know that it wasn’t scary, a kid in the kindergarten would be scared and nobody else pretty much.

The characters were very badly done. The same characters were much better in the movie than they were in this book. 

I give this book 1 / 5

“Song” by Edgar Allan Poe Review

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This one was another quick poem to read by Edgar Allan Poe. 

I need to say that I’ve enjoyed this one a lots more than I have expected that I would. 

There were many times where this poem made me feel like it was written by an art student who have written it for his crush. 

It was an okay poem but I’ve read so many poems and tales from Edgar Allan Poe that I know that he can do a much better job than this poem.

This poem is quite beautiful when it comes to the language and imagery.

I give this poem 1 / 5

“Al Aaraaf” by Edgar Allan Poe Review

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“Al Aaraaf” is the longest poem Poe wrote and was inspired by Tycho Brahe’s discovery of a supernova back in 1572 which was visible for about seventeen months. Poe identified this nova with Al Aaraaf, a star that was the place between paradise and hell.

Before we go into this review I need to be honest with you about the fact that I don’t have a clue what the poem supposed to be about.

Dont get me wrong it was eloquently and gorgeously written. Because you know Edgar Allan Poe have written it. 

After some time spent thinking I have understood that this poem was about 2 spiritual beings who fall in love with each other but it also was about  the consequences which come from these 2 spiritual beings falling in love which each other.

This poem gets 1 / 5

“The Colloquy of Monos and Una” By Edgar Allan Poe Review

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It focuses on two people, who are apparently in love, discussing their passing away from the mortal plane. Monos died first and describes being conscious of his surrounding from his death until after his burial. He describes feeling Una by his side all the way to feeling the worms slowly devour his empty body.

This one is all about the conversation between two lovers who have gone beyond the grave. I don’t know why but this one did not appeal to me which is really strange because I usually like stories like this one. 

However I need to give this story points for being uniquely imagined and very creative in its own way.

This one have all the points which a good gothic story should have which of course is the gothic vibe, romance, dark mood and a deeper meaning behind it.

And to be honest but I got Friedrich Nietzsche vibes from this one which was really strange for me. Which of course I really dont mind. 

The whole potential of this story for me at least wasn’t used as it could have been. So this is the reason why I give this one so low rating.

The writing style is far from good or even okay. It almost doesn’t feel like Edgar Allan Poe have written it. 

I give this poem 1 / 5

“The Island of the Fay” By Edgar Allan Poe Review

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The story is told by an anonymous narrator, who chances upon a “profusely verdured” islet and fancies that a fairy is present on the island.

This was another pretty decent and lovely story from none other than Edgar Allan Poe.

But as someone who have read almost every poem and story from Edgar Allan Poe I need to say that he was able to do a much better work than he did on this one. But it also could be me being to harsh to this short story.

The writing style has some beautiful moments but for the most part the writing style is pretty boring and uninteresting.

However the take which Edgar Allan Poe is taking on the the fair folk is very enjoyable and interesting. But he didn’t use the full potential of this story which it could very easily have.

The first part of this short story is more or less a dull and not what Ive expected but it sort of gets better when the ending comes closer and closer. And the imagery at the end which Edgar Allan Poe is giving us was beautiful.

This one didn’t quite work for me. I really wanted to like it but there are a lots of short stories and poems from Edgar Allan Poe which simply doesn’t work for me for some reason.

I give this poem 1 / 5

“Psychopata” By Klaudia Muniak Review

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At the BCT research and development center, tests are being carried out on a modern, non-invasive method of fighting brain tumors. Maja Lipska, a young researcher, achieves spectacular success. After a banquet at the end of one of the conferences, he wakes up on a park bench. To her horror, she discovers that she has no idea what she has been doing for the last thirty-six hours. At the same time, young women are brutally murdered in Krakow. All the clues point to the operation of a serial killer. The investigation is carried out by Maja’s partner, who does not like her reckless behavior. When one day at the BTC center the body of one of the workers is found, it seems that it is another victim of the “Krakow cutthroat”.

Before we start this review it is important to mention that at the time of writting this review this book is only available in Polish but lets hope that it will change soon.

First of all I need to give this book points for having a good idea behind it and that the main character was acctually amazing and written very well.

This book was my first medical thriller so I didnt have high expection for it, but still it had disapointed me. The whole story we got here is just a skeleton and nothing more than that.

Characters in this book was pretty decent. The main character was good and there were some good characters and some less good characters in this book. I mentioned it before in other reviews but the quality will always win over quantity. So it would be much better if this book had less characters but good characters. All characters were difficult to associate with.

There are things which really throw off me at least. Which I cant really mention without spoiling anything for you guys so I wont do that.

This book could be longer and have more descirptions, details and longer process than it acutally had.

Medical experiments and serial killer does usuallly the work for me when it comes to me liking a book but not in this case. Because the whole potential of this book wasnt used as it could have been.

For the most part this book as a whole was super annoying to say at least. Because of the drama which was created by the main character and that the whole potential wasnt used.

The beginning of the ending was pretty good but it quickly turned into complet trash and nothing more than that. If you are like me and you have watched dozens and dozens thriller movies and read dozens and dozens thriller book you will more or less expect it or expect something close it.

I give this book 1 / 5

“Lionizing” By Edgar Allan Poe Review

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A young man is born with a wonderful nose, and takes up the study of Nosology, only to hurt his career and fame by shooting another man’s nose off during a duel

This story was weird, scary a little bit but also humorous, which is a big no no to mix humour with horror.

The one thing which everyone will enjoy with this story is pretty much the odd abundance of nose puns. Which is the best part of this story.

The writing style was pretty meh. It wasn’t super bad but it neither was okay.

I need to give this story points for kind of being funny at times but it really did take the wind out of this story. And it just created mixed feeling about story for me.

I give this poem 1 / 5

“The Business Man” By Edgar Allan Poe Review

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Its about a businessman boasting of his accomplishments. It was published in February 1840 in Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine. The story questions the concept of a self-made man.

Again another humorous bull shit story from Edgar Allan Poe.

This story has no flow in it and it is super hard to understand whats the meaning with this one.

The characters in this one are also super forgettable. And the writing style is again meh.

In the end this story was nothing but super boring. Though it had some interesting fragments.

I give this poem 1 / 5

“The Assignation” By Edgar Allan Poe Review

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“The Assignation,” one of Edgar A. Poe’s earliest stories is, in fact, the first true murder mystery ever written—though it was not recognized as a mystery at all for some 170 years. The accepted theory was that the story is a romance, in which the two lovers killed themselves in a suicide pact

This one lacks the background knowledge to the whole story. Which as you can guess takes the wind out of this story.

The writing style was pretty decent but not much to talk about. It wasn’t super bad but it wasn’t neither good as in “The Raven” or some other works written by Edgar Allan Poe.

This story gives you a lots of questions but almost none answers which doesn’t work well for me at least.

For the most part it is an interesting story which takes place in Venice. 

It also have the gothic vibe to it which I love, however the conversations about art which are pretty frequent in this story sort of kills a little bit the gothic vibe. 

I give this poem 1 / 5