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“The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales” By Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm Review

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Originally titled Children’s and Household Tales, The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales contains the essential bedtime stories for children worldwide for the better part of two centuries. The Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, were German linguists and cultural researchers who gathered legendary folklore and aimed to collect the stories exactly as they heard them. 2012 marked the 200th anniversary of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, and what better way to celebrate than to include all 211 stories into the Knickerbocker Classic Series?

If you heard or read some of the classic tales for children then I would say that they are this book is a must read.

To be fully honest reading this book is a pure enjoyment and pleasure because it is very nostalgic to return to some tales and stories I’ve heard when I was very small but this time in their original version which is slightly different from the version kids now hear and read with their parents.

The majority of the tales in this book are dark in a way, but to be honest I liked them much better in this original form because I am a huge horror fan. These tales are dark but they won’t raise in you the fear but rather introduce you the gothic vibe in a way but also this old time vibe which I personally am a huge fan of.

Both all of the stories and the illustrations in this book are just amazing and magical in a way. For me it was like returning to childhood again.

This book is very quick and enjoyable read. And the cover which I personally have is to die for. 

All of the tales in this book were written 1800s ish and you can truly feel the old vibe to all of the stories which really gives these stories more fun and more unique vibe. 

The writing style in all of the stories are very good and it really gives you the old time vibe as I’ve said before. 

I Give Play 5 / 5

“Call Me By Your Name” By André Aciman Review

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Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference. But during the restless summer weeks that follow, unrelenting buried currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire, intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them. What grows from the depths of their spirits is a romance of scarcely six weeks’ duration and an experience that marks them for a lifetime. For what the two discover on the Riviera and during a sultry evening in Rome is the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy.

I gotta admit that this book didn’t grab me as it had other people. I personally found more bad things about this book than good.

The story here was pretty decent, and there were some good moments here and there but overall it wasn’t something I personally liked. The story in this book was for sure different and unique in a way, but it just didn’t work for me personally. This book had some sweet and nice moments here and there, but for me personally 95% of this book was boring. 

The characters here are very flat and overly stereotypical. It might be because of the fact that the author focused more on the storyline than rather on giving us good characters which readers can actually like or relate to. 

This book being from Elio’s perceptive, and the farther we get in this book the more we notice how big of a creep Elio is. Because there were times when the main character became a full stalker over the man he fall in love with. And there was a moment when the main character thought about killing the guy which he fall in love with.

The age gap between Elio and Oliver is 7 years but the way the author presents the age gap to us makes it feel like it is 30 years not 7.

The writing style here was very, very weak and it really made this book even more difficult to like and find interesting.

The ending in this book was all over the place. Because it kept jumping forward in time without any warning or sign that it would happen. 

The ending also kept building up to the fact that Elio and Oliver will end up together at the end but what really happened at the end was Elio’s father dying, and Oliver coming back to Italy to pay his respects.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“The Complete Works of William Shakespeare” By William Shakespeare Review

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Complete Works of William Shakespeare is the standard name given to any volume containing all the plays and poems of William Shakespeare

This book is a collection of all of William Shakespeare’s work. To be honest the majority didn’t go well with me but there were very few good once. 

There are 38 plays, 2 long poems and 154 sonnets in this book. I’ve already reviewed each of them separately so if you are interested you can always look back at them.

This book is very good for collector of classic works, but also this book is a good one to have if you want all of William Shakespeare’s work in one place which would look amazing in the bookshelf. 

To be honest after reading this whole book I need to say that maybe William Shakespeare is a little bit overrated because I personally didn’t understand why so many people love William Shakespeare’s work.

I Give Book 4 / 5

“Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” By Ransom Riggs Review

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A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow-impossible though it seems-they may still be alive. A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.

Oh my god, this book was amazing. It really gave the biggest nostalgia to childhood and the books I used to read back then. This book has adventure, danger, good characters and basically all you want in all a good fantasy book. 

This book and the plot of it gives the biggest Harry Potter and x-men combined vibe. Because this book involves friends, kids with special abilities and adventure feeling to it. This book is also mysterious, weird in a sense and intriguing.

The beginning of it started big but then after like 25 pages it went boring and then the it got back up to the interesting and enjoyable part on the last 1/3 of this book.

The characters here feels like real human beings. And the characters in this book feel like I wouldn’t have any problems with getting along with them which doesn’t happen often for me in fantasy books.

90% of all the characters in this book are children or teenagers, and we get to follow the plot through eyes of a teenager and it somehow made this entire book and plot more interesting.

The plot here is super mysterious at the first 1 / 3 of this book and we as readers don’t know what’s happening. But then as the book continues we learn more and more until we eventually fall in love with this book. 

The plot in this book is very unique and different. Which really made me love this book much more.

In this book we also get illustration or rather old pictures which add even more to this book. Which really adds more unique feeling to this book.

The writing style in this book was very easy and it really didn’t take a lot of brain power to enjoy it.

I Give This Book 5 / 5

“Mostly Harmless” By Douglas Adams Review

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It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up and the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit—and immediately all hell breaks loose. Hell takes a number of there’s the standard Ford Prefect version, in the shape of an all-new edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and a totally unexpected manifestation in the form of a teenage girl who startles Arthur Dent by being his daughter when he didn’t even know he had one. 

This book is the last book in the The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. And it’s the weakest book in the series. 

The humour in this book finds a new level of just not working for me, and any attempts on humour in this book I find very awkward and very boring. 

The plot in this book did had its good moments but these moments were very rare and they ended very fast. Which really annoyed me because I would have given it so much higher rating if these goods moments were longer and more frequent. 

Other than that the plot been very boring and it felt too long, because it wasn’t anything happening other than drama from the past. 

The characters were okay for the most part. But at times they make very stupid and absurd decisions which really have blown my mind.

The writing style here was bad and okay at the same time. Which is really hard to explain because there were pages which have been good but also there were pages which have been very bad.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Young Zaphod Plays It Safe” By Douglas Adams Review

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Young Zaphod Plays it Safe is a novella by Douglas Adams set in his The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy universe. It doesn’t appear as a standalone work, but is included with several collections. The story is a prequel to the events in The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy and has the young Zaphod Beeblebrox working as a salvage ship operator. He guides some bureaucrats to a crashed spaceship which may be leaking some hazardous materials. The bureaucrats are determined to “make it safe”. The comic asides in the story include some of the time travel paradoxes which are a common running theme in Adams’ SF work, and plenty of material about lobsters

This short story is a prequel to the first book in this series. Which really surprised me in a good way of course. 

The characters in this short story were okay but I didn’t care about them at all. I wish that they could have got more time in a way.

The plot in this short story was really interesting and it annoyed me that it was so short. 

I expected this short story to be bad, I don’t know why. However it have surprised me because it was good. 

This short story was interesting, entertaining and intriguing. But at the same time I felt like there was something missing in it.

The writing style here was okay. But it had the potential to be so much better which the author didn’t use.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish” By Douglas Adams Review

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Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth’s dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy all conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on.

To be fully honest this book is the weakest book in this series so far. Of course I have one book and on short story left in this series so everything can happen in that time. 

My main problem with this book is that its no longer a sci-fi book as the rest of this series but instead it turned out to be a love story book. Which really annoyed me.

The characters here, I came to hate them in this book. I also found them to be very boring and awkward at times which really pissed me off because I wanted to like them again after the previous book rather than to dislike them even more.

The writing style are worse than in the previous book. Which really made me even more bored of this book. 

In my opinion this book was very boring.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“Life, the Universe and Everything” By Douglas Adams Review

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The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads—so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-president of the galaxy; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox.

To be fully honest after reading this book I can honestly admit that I don’t understand the hype with this series. In my opinion it’s okay and nothing more than that. 

The plot in this book was weaker than the previous book, and somehow I found the majority of this book edging on the side with boredom. Of course it had some good moments here and there but nothing more than that. 

The writing style here were okay. I wish it could have been better because it would have made this book and the entire plot better. 

The characters here, I became bored of them pretty quickly which I don’t know why. It felt like the character development didn’t happen and that the characters were just as the same as they were in the first book. 

In a way this book felt very confusing and I found myself zoning out while reading this book and starting to think about other things than this book.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“The Restaurant at the End of the Universe” By Douglas Adams Review

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Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle through space powered by pure improbability – and desperately in search of a place to eat. Among Arthur’s motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a long-time friend and contributor to the The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy; Tricia McMilan, a fellow Earth refuge who’s gone native (her name is Trillian now); and Marvin, who suffers nothing and no one gladly.

I gotta say that this book so far is the best book in the The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. 

Somehow this book takes the world and plot from the first book and builds onto it. Because of this we get to see more of the world in this series and we get a better plot in this book. Which I really came to like much more this book than the first book. 

The plot here was very good. Its very unique and its very interesting to read. There was something really intriguing and entertaining about this book. Which really caught my attention and kept me reading to the end.

The characters in this book gets better than they were in the first book. It might be a character development or me taking the time to actually like them. 

However this book has the same problem as the first book had. Which is that the humour was very weak and it didn’t fall in with me.

I Give This Book 4 / 5

“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” By Douglas Adams Review

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Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.

The reason why I decided to pick up this book and start this series is because ive heard a lot of good things about this book. 

The plot was really unique and it blown my mind. Because its really good. I might not love it but I like it a lot. 

The plot in this book is very strange because it reminds me of every other sci-fi book but at the same time its different because of the way it is presented to us which really engaged me.

The characters in this book wasn’t the best. But I came to like them by the end of this book. 

This book contains some humor here and there. Some of it I came to like but the majority of it just didn’t let with me. 

The writing style here was good, at times it felt like the author knew what words to use to fully grab my attention but at other times the opposite happened. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5