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“Tales of Norse Mythology” By Hélène A. Guerber Review

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Scandinavians of the Viking Age explored the mysteries of life through their sagas. Folklorist Helene Adeline Guerber brings to life the gods and goddesses, giants and dwarves, and warriors and monsters of these stories in Tales of Norse Mythology. Ranging from the comic to the tragic, these leghends tell of passion, love, friendship, pride, courage, strength, loyalty, and betrayal.

This book have fucked up couple of names when it comes to the norse mythology, I know this since Ive been interested in the norse mythology for years now and I’ve read a lot about it by now. 

You have to know that if you want to get into norse mythology then this book isn’t the choice here. Of course this book has these amazing stories from the norse mythology but this book is very dry and it might make you hate norse mythology before you give it a good shot. 

To be full honest with you this book doesn’t tell us the stories of the norse mythology but rather just reports them to us which really made be so uninterested at times and so bored of this book. 

However this book needs to get points for giving us a good idea about the personality and the look of the major gods and goddesses in the the norse mythology which I really liked.

The writing style here was very okay for the most part but to be fully honest here with you the writing style in this book was a roller coster ride because it had many good moments but it also had many bad moments. 

For the most part this book had a very simplistic overview of the gods which really annoyed me at times. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5 

“The Rape of Lucrece” By William Shakespeare Review

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This is a narrative poem focusing on the rape and tragic death of the title character and on the desire for revenge that follows. The work has been subcategorized as a complaint poem, a work in which the main character laments or bemoans his or her unfair fate or injustice.

This play by William Shakespeare surprised me in a good way because I was expecting something which wouldn’t work for me. But this play was actually okay in my opinion.

I personally don’t like plays and I am not a fan of watching nor reading plays but this one was actually fun to read. 

The characters in this play were okay but to be honest I wasn’t the biggest fan of them. There weren’t annoying I just personally didn’t care for them but they were tolerable so I gave this play points for that. 

The plot here was somehow darker than the rest of William Shakespeare’s plays but in a good way. Because in my opinion it suited William Shakespeare much better in a way. This play for the most part is about rape and tragic death which are very sad topics but I really liked.

The narrative is very self-absorbed and melodramatic which annoyed me at times. To be honest this play would have been much better if these two were removed from this play. 

The writing style here was okay. The writing style here was very typical William Shakespeare writing style which I personally never came to appreciate. 

I Give Play 3 / 5

“A Lover’s Complaint” By William Shakespeare Review

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A lover’s complaint is a compressed poem detailing the predicament of an abandoned female lover who laments her undoing at the hands of an unscrupulous male seducer.

The writing style here was very good and beautiful to be honest. 

This one was short so there isn’t much to say about it.

To poetry here was okay but the plot was worse. Because it was the generic plot of William Shakespeare about love, grief and death was really fast gets depressing if you ask me. 

This poem is fun, enjoyable and interesting to read but still there was something missing in it at least for me.

I Give Poem 3 / 5

“The Golden Key” By Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm Review

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A young boy listens to his Great-aunt’s stories about a magical golden key found at the end of a rainbow. One day, he sees an immense rainbow and sets out to find its end in an enchanted forest. As the forest is in Fairyland where everything has an opposite effect, the rainbow only glows brighter when the sun sets.

The original tale is much better but also darker then the version kids see. 

It is different but not that different from what you might remember from first hearing this tale as a kid. 

The plot here are very good but also dark which is the mix which I personally like a lot.

The writing style here was very old and you could feel the vibe of old the Europe which but it also felt like there was something missing. 

I Give This Story 3 / 5

“The Communist Manifesto” By Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels Review

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The Communist Manifesto is one of the most influential pieces of political propaganda ever written. It is a summary of the whole Marxist vision of history and is the foundation document of the Marxist movement. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were aged 29 and 27 respectively when The Communist Manifesto was published on the eve of the 1848 revolutions. The authors had been close collaborators since 1844, and the Manifesto is a condensed and incisive account of the world-view they had evolved during their hectic intellectual and political involvement of the previous few years.

This book have been on my TBR for couple of years now and I finally read it. I personally am super interested in politics so this book was sort of a must read for me and many friends of mine have recommended it so here we are to talk about the book.

Some of the ideas in this book are interesting however these ideas were to explaining communist ideology in that historical period which I personally enjoyed a lot. However this ideology as other ideologies looks good only on paper.

This book is worth reading no matter what your believes are and what your opinions are because it gives us a good look into the communist ideology in a historical period when it was pretty fresh. This book is worth a reading because of being able to understand its historical value in a sense. 

This book is somehow deeply entrenched in economics of the mid 19th century ish and full of straw man arguments, which not work for everyone if you are not interested in history or politics. 

It is somehow shameful to call this book an apex of socialist/communist theory. Because it is he height of a programme to get out of it nor the height of a critique of capitalism. 

Of course this book is full of old English because it was written so long ago but in my opinion it gives more to this book and the whole communist ideology.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“The Return of the King” By J.R.R. Tolkien Review

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The armies of the Dark Lord Sauron are massing as his evil shadow spreads even wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to do battle against the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor, guided by the treacherous creature Gollum, in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring.

This book is good, very good but it also have many shitty and draggy description and it is mixed with very slow moments which felt like a huge waste of space in a way. 

There was a lot of action in this book but it felt like it was extended too much in a way which really made be uninterested in it because it was dragged out too much and every detail in this book was described too much for me at least. 

This book was dull and hard to follow most times which really made me uninterested in this book. 

The plot was okay here, there was even a little love triangle there which I liked a little bit. I feel like the plot was a decent plot but it could have been better because I had a really hard time trying to connect with the plot. And the plot itself had many moments were it was simple boring and uninteresting. 

Of course J.R.R. Tolkien had finished the amazing series on a high note which we need to give him credit for. The end of this trilogy was satisfying but as I’ve said above it could have been better if it was shorter. 

The characters were very good and I loved them all. But too be honest the character development felt for me like it didn’t exist because they were making the same mistakes in this book as they were doing in the first book. 

The writing style here was amazing it really felt like it was the hight of every fantasy book. Which really made me give this book some extra points. 

The ending was pretty much 2 chapters too long at least and it really felt like torture finishing this book because of these 2 last chapters. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“His Last Bow” By Arthur Conan Doyle Review

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“His Last Bow”, the title story of this collection, tells how Sherlock Holmes is brought out of retirement to help the Government fight the German threat at the approach of the First World War. The Prime Minister himself requests Holmes’s services to hunt down the remarkable German agent, Von Bork. Several of the detective’s earlier cases complete the volume, including ‘Wisteria Lodge’, ‘The Bruce-Partington Plans’, and ‘The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax’. In ‘The Dying Detective’, Dr Watson is horrified to discover Holmes at death’s door from a mysterious tropical disease as his friend lays a trap for a murderer.

I had high expectations for this one which I didn’t quite live up to. 

The plot here is was okay and it was enjoyable and interesting in a way. But still I feel that it could have been better than it actually was. To be fully honest here the plot here was a little bit weak but I still had fun time reading this one.

The characters here are okay but when it comes to Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson they are an amazing due and I loved they both because they have something in them which makes us relate to them.

The writing style here was okay but I think that sir Arthur Conan Doyle could have done better in this book.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“The Return of Sherlock Holmes” By Arthur Conan Doyle Review

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Missing, presumed dead, for three years, Sherlock Holmes returns triumphantly to his dear companion Dr Watson. And not before time! London has never been in more need of his extraordinary services: a murderous individual with an air gun stalks the city.

I had high expectations for this one which I didn’t quite live up to. 

The plot here is was okay and it was enjoyable and interesting in a way. But still I feel that it could have been better than it actually was. To be fully honest here the plot here was a little bit weak but I still had fun time reading this one.

The characters here are okay but when it comes to Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson they are an amazing due and I loved they both because they have something in them which makes us relate to them.

The writing style here was okay but I think that sir Arthur Conan Doyle could have done better in this book.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez” By Arthur Conan Doyle Review

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I had high expectations for this one which I didn’t quite live up to. 

The plot here is was okay and it was enjoyable and interesting in a way. But still I feel that it could have been better than it actually was. To be fully honest here the plot here was a little bit weak but I still had fun time reading this one.

The characters here are okay but when it comes to Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson they are an amazing due and I loved they both because they have something in them which makes us relate to them.

The writing style here was okay but I think that sir Arthur Conan Doyle could have done better in this book.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“The Adventure of the Dancing Men” By Arthur Conan Doyle Review

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I had high expectations for this one which I didn’t quite live up to. 

The plot here is was okay and it was enjoyable and interesting in a way. But still I feel that it could have been better than it actually was. To be fully honest here the plot here was a little bit weak but I still had fun time reading this one.

The characters here are okay but when it comes to Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson they are an amazing due and I loved they both because they have something in them which makes us relate to them.

The writing style here was okay but I think that sir Arthur Conan Doyle could have done better in this book.

I Give This Book 3 / 5