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The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.

To be honest this book have taken me awhile to finish, because I would take a really long breaks in between reading this book. And I’m gonna explain why I did so later on in the review. 

There is a lot of things going in this book, and all the things which was happening in this book were very intense and heavy topics. 

This book is a murder mystery from none other than Fyodor Dostoevsky so you know there will be some very intense and heavy topics in this book. And not solely a straight forward mystery of finding the killer and the reason why. 

My main problem with this book and well Fyodor Dostoevsky books, is that he stretched everything for far too long than it needed to be. So because of it I tend to lose focus and interest very fast with this book and with Fyodor Dostoevsky books in general. 

The characters here were okay to be honest, I didn’t care enough about them to sort of create any opinions about them. But they weren’t bad nor good. 

This book has some good moments, which really made my day while reading this book because I was ready to hate this book, which in the end didn’t happen.

The ending this book was interesting and enjoyable. Because it involved posting out the killer and the motive of why. Which really seeing that process in a Russian classic book was very enjoyable for me personally.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

Designed to forever kindle a dream of high romance and distant horizons, Treasure Island is, in the words of G. K. Chesterton, ‘the realization of an ideal, that which is promised in its provocative and beckoning map; a vision not only of white skeletons but also green palm trees and sapphire seas.’ G. S. Fraser terms it ‘an utterly original book’ and goes on to write: ‘There will always be a place for stories like Treasure Island that can keep boys and old men happy.’

Ive heard a lot of good about this book, and because of it I had a lot of expectations for this book which this book didn’t live up to.

I personally found the plot to be very boring and uninteresting. For the most part it felt out of place, but at the same time it was most meant for the younger readers, so maybe thats the reason why I didn’t like the plot and found it boring.

I need to give this book some credit because, this book was the thing which made pirate themed movies, shows and books so popular, and don’t get me wrong I love the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies.

The characters here, were very flat, predictable, boring and uninteresting. They almost like the author just needed some character who no one would care about to care along the larger picture of the plot.

This book overall, is a very almost too generic treasure hunt book, and at this point it is too generic because the are thousands and thousands of treasure hunt movies, shows and books which are exactly as this one but with different character and by different author. 

The writing style was very old timey and very heavy with old English, but I’m gonna give this book a pass on this one because it was written in 1882, so of course the language and the writing in this book will be very outdated from what we expect today.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin’s Select Seminary for Young Ladies, is devastated when her adored, indulgent father dies. Now penniless and banished to a room in the attic, Sara is demeaned, abused, and forced to work as a servant. How this resourceful girl’s fortunes change again is at the center of A Little Princess , one of the best-loved stories in all of children’s literature.

I have a lot of mixed feelings about this book, because on the one side it was sweet and I liked it but on the second side I didn’t like it so much as I wanted to.

The beginning of this book was very sweet and nice, because the main character Sarah, was a very sweet child which I loved but as the book continues to go further and further Sarah was becoming way too perfect, which really made me dislike here.

Its important to say that this book is meant for kids rather than adults. And because I read this book as an adult might explain the low rating I gave this book. Very fast Sarah became Boringly perfect, and I know how harsh it will sounds like, but I know why the adults at the school didn’t like Sarah, thats because she was way too perfect.

There were things I liked about this book which of course is that this book prompts  being nice to people no matter how pretty their are, how wealthy they are or whatever else there might be involved. 

The characters here well not the greatest, Sarah was a very bad character because as I’ve said before, she is way too damn perfect, which made me dislike her very very fast. To be honest I never went from liking a character to truly hating a character so fast as I’ve did with Sarah while reading this book.

As of the rest of the characters, they all were ignorant, shallow, and helpless which really didn’t help me liking this book. 

The writing style makes it very easy and you don’t have to be a genius to see solely from the writing style that this book was meant for children.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell’s nightmarish vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff’s attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell’s prescience of modern life—the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language—and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written.

I need to say that this book has been on my TBR for years, and this year I finally read it and I’m so very glad that I finally read it because this book is so amazing.

This book has 2 parts, and the 1 first part of it was for me personally hard to read, but the second part was completely amazing. Because in the second part its where this book really got its chance to shine.

This book was relevant when it was first published but now in 2024 its even more relevant, because humans in the majority of countries are becoming more and more like cyborgs. Which means that we as humans depend more and more on our phones, internet, headphones, laptops, tablets, tv etc.

The plot here is amazing, because its paint a very real version of dystopia and how everything would go downhill. Even thou this book is a fictional book, the dystopia in this book seems very real and like it might happen in a few decades. Which really made me love this book a lot because of it.

This book contains topics as humans being controlled by the government, no free speech, harsh and strict political rules, language manipulation, propaganda, excessive surveillance and everything we do and say being recorded. Which a lot of those topics are becoming more and more relevant now, and you will see it if you watch the news channels or read newspapers. 

The writing style here was amazing, because it felt like George Orwell knew what words to use to grab my attention and to not let it go to the very end.

The two main characters we get in this book which of course are Winston and Julia are amazing, because you can feel their struggles, and how much they try to live their live under those harsh, brutal and strict rules which are set by the government.

I Give This Book 4 / 5

It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women on her own early life. While her father, the freethinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with “woman’s work,” including sewing, doing laundry, and acting as a domestic servant. But she soon discovered she could make more money writing. Little Women brought her lasting fame and fortune, and far from being the “girl’s book” her publisher requested, it explores such timeless themes as love and death, war and peace, the conflict between personal ambition and family responsibilities, and the clash of cultures between Europe and America.

I’ve heard a lot of good about this book which is why I decided to read it, and I got to say that this book doesn’t deserve all the hype it gets on boktube. 

It is important to keep in mind that this book has two parts, which sometimes are published as two different books. And these two parts are named “little women” and “good wives”. 

My main problem with this book is that we get 4 main characters, and all of them are way too perfect. They never do anything wrong, they want to please everyone, they want to serve everyone etc. they were super unrealistic which really makes it very detached from reality.

And all the love stories which the 4 main characters are just so perfectly shows us that it really doesn’t make sense to the reader, and really makes us thing that they would last an hour in the real world.

The writing style here was actually very good and it was the reason why I gave this book 2 starts instead of one. 

However you are a feminist and like books with feminist themes then you will like this book a lot. 

This book was very uninteresting and even boring at times which really made me angry because when I wanted to really love this book, but of course it didn’t happen.

The plot itself in this book is sort of a feminist novel set it 1862, I personally don’t like feminist novels, so it might explain why I didn’t like this book as much as I wanted to.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

‘The longest and most charming love letter in literature’, playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf’s close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth’s England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost. At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Constantinople, awakes to find that he is now a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the novel ends in 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women. Orlando, now a wife and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women.

Here we go again talking about a classic which didn’t work for me. Even thou 99% of the classic books I read don’t work me, I sometimes stumble across amazing books as “The Great Gatsby”. But this book is very far from that in my opinion.

Even thou I didn’t have a lot of exceptions for this book, I still managed some how to get disappointed in this book. I hear a lot of both good and bad about this book. And after having reading this one I can honestly say that it is truly bad in my opinion. 

The copy I got of this book has 298 pages, and all of these pages were descriptions of things that were happening and doing so the author of this book forgot about the plot. 

The plot in this book is almost none existing, I write this book 2 days after finishing this book and I can fully say that I don’t know what this book was about because the amount of descriptions in this book over rule the plot in this book.

However the writing style in this book was very very good which truly made me happy because it was the only good thing about this book in my opinion.

When it comes to the characters in this book, I can tell you that they are very flat, boring and you wont remember them after finishing this book. Even during reading this book I couldn’t name even one character that was in this book.

A lot of people on the internet call this book “the longest and most charming love-letter in literature”, but if I received a love letter like this, I would beat the shit of the person who wrote that letter to me. Because it was so awful and it didn’t make any sense to me.

This book was my first book written by Virginia Wolf, and if the rest of her work are like this one, I wont continue my adventure with her work. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through the wall of the established order in Russia, but instead becomes mired in the endless downward spiral of betting and loss. His intense and inescapable addiction is accentuated by his affair with the General’s cruel yet seductively adept niece, Polina. In The Gambler, Dostoevsky reaches the heights of drama with this stunning psychological portrait.

Yet again another Dostoevsky book which haven’t quite worked for me personally. 

This book had for sure a unique plot which really surprised me. Even thou the plot here was unique it didn’t grab my attention nor my interested in it.

The characters here were pretty flat and shallow. I found ever character in this book to be very boring and uninteresting and I just didn’t bother remembering their names. Because one of the issues I have with the characters in this book is that they feel like the same character but in different clothes.

This book gives us some very bad and at the same time very predictable advices if you will about the dangers of gambling. 

The writing style in this book was far from being great but in my opinion the writing style was the best part of this book. 

In my opinion this book dragged for far too long. There might be just me not being a fan of classics but that’s just my opinion.

This book had some good moments here and there, but these moments were very rare and it really wasn’t enough for me.

The narration style here was far from the best, and at the very best it was bad. Again it might be just me again not being fan of the majority of classics. 

I Give This Book 2 / 5