Tag: Fiction Book Review

In The Double, the protagonist, Golyadkin senior, is persecuted by his double, Golyadkin junior, who resembles him closely in almost every detail. The latter abuses the former with mounting scorn and brutality as the tale proceeds toward its frightening denouement. Characteristic Dostoyevskyan themes of helplessness, victimization, and scandal are beautifully handled here with an artistry that qualifies the story as a small masterpiece.

Why is it so hard to find a Dostoevsky book which I will actually enjoy? 

As you may expect I didn’t like this book a lot, I think it was okay to read but unfortunately nothing more than that.

The beginning and middle of this book were quite interesting. But the more you get closer to the end, the worse this book becomes in my opinion. The middle was really got to grab your attention but the longer to further into this book you got the more confusing it got. 

The ending went really down the hill in this book. Because there was a lot of things happening and well the writing style doesn’t make it better. The ending in a way left me confused and not knowing what to think about this book. Because it was all over the place in my opinion. 

The writing style in this book was very heavy, and as someone who isn’t accustomed to read so heavy books I got a little confused at times. But still in overall opinion it was really Dostoevsky to write in such a heavy way.

The plot in this book is a little all over the place, and well it was for sure very unique. The plot in this book will for sure leave you scratching your head over it that’s what at least happened to me.

The main character in this book overused way too much the person’s name to whom he is speaking when he is speaking to that person. He is also in need of medical treatment. 

And the rest of the character were really a blur, because they were there but we didn’t get to know a lot about them. So I really can’t say a lot about them.

The narrator here is a odd one for sure. Because the narrator is all over the place and is very unreliable. And this in a way leaves us in a unsure state about the main character in this book.

Even thou I wasn’t the biggest fan of this book, I see what Dostoevsky was trying to do here. 

I Give This Book 2 / 5

‘He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim as well as a priest…’ Wilde’s supremely witty tale of dandies, anarchists and a murderous prophecy in London high society.

This book had really surprised me a lot because I haven’t expected this book to be as good as it actually was.

The book is very short but there is a lot of things happening in this book, which will make you interesting and even chuckle at times because of how bad luck the main character has in his actions.

The plot here is pretty strange, because it feels like there is a little happening but at the same time it feels like there is a lot of things happening.

The ending has a strange turn of the events which I personally liked a lot. The ending itself made me give this book an extra star. 

The characters here are pretty flat, and all of the characters seems pretty boring and uninteresting.

The writing style here was pretty okay, even thou it had the potential to be better Oscar Wilde haven’t used it.

It was my first book written by Oscar Wilde so I can say what type of author he was or anything about his other work because I haven’t read any of them at the time of writing this review.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

The story of a greedy peasant named Pakhom. Although Pakhom enjoys health and family happiness, he feels dissatisfied when he learns of the grand fortunes of his relatives. He decides to go on a quest for more land, only to find that with each new acquisition new problems develop… How Much Land Does A Man Need? gives a delightful insight into old Russian values

This book is a very quick read. My copy of this book has only 55 pages which means that it can be read in a hour or so.

The plot here was very weak in my opinion. Because it is very short and all the plot talks about is human greed. And how some people just want more and more in society which is true. But the way it was portrayed really makes me not like this book a lot.

The perspective here didn’t feel like something written by Tolstoy but rather it felt like something written by a new author trying to poorly write as Tolstoy.

If you never read anything written by Tolstoy then this book isn’t the place to begin the journey with him. Because this book has to be the weakest book written by him ive read so far.

I can’t say a lot about the characters in this book, because we don’t get to know them a lot in only 55 or so pages.

The writing style in this book was very weak in my opinion and well there isn’t much I can say about the writing style because we get so few pages. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen’s most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.

This book is yet again another classic which didn’t work for me personally. But yes I still read classics even thou 80% of them aren’t for me and this book is one of them.

The first 100 page of this book is Emma looking down at people who have lower living standards than her. A good example of this will be the following quote from early in this book “Oh, my dear, that’s good because I would have to knock you flat on your arse if you were considering someone of such low birth.”

Emma is the main character of this book of course. And she has every requirement of a character which I personally hate the most. Emma is annoying, she meddles in things which clearly isn’t her business, she is very immature, a huge snob and her mistakes is never her fault but someone else’s. 

The rest of the character here was so boring and uninteresting that I can’t even tell you any of their names. 

The plot in this book is about a rich and very snobbish girl who looks down and trash talk people who have less money than her. And her only hobby is to matchmaking for people she doesn’t know at all. And the consequences of her hobby is not her fault but rather the people’s she involve in her awful hobby.

The writings style was probably the best thing about this book. It gives us the amazing mood and it is very easy to read even with the old English.

To be fully honest here this book is way too long. The length of my copy of this book is 480 pages, which is way too long. Because this book is very doll, boring and uninteresting.

Even thou I finished this book there were so many times I wanted to just stop reading, or fall asleep while reading this book. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersburg, it is the story of a young man fighting his inner restlessness. A light and tender narrative, it delves into the torment and guilt of unrequited love. Both protagonists suffer from a deep sense of alienation that initially brings them together. A blend of romanticism and realism, the story appeals gently to the senses and feelings.

To be honest this book really surprised me because I was expecting to suffer through this book as I did while reading “Crime And Punishment”. 

This short story ab out a man who falls in love with a stranger she swore to not fall in love with.

This book had few good moments, but other than that I found it uninteresting. Yes ive enjoyed reading this book, but I didn’t like it as much. 

There were times while reading this book that I needed to remind myself when it was written because some of the things in this book are very outdated.

I personally found the narrator in this book to be annoying at times. And there were times where I thought that the narrator was highly depressed due to the phrasing the narrator used.

Nastenka is a 17 year old who is very manipulative. Which really made me hate her very fast.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

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

Hailed as one of the world’s supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his dying so much as a passing thought. But one day, death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise, he is brought face to face with his own mortality.  How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?

This book is my second book written by Leo Tolstoy and so far my liking of his work haven’t been so high. It might be something to do with me not seeing the beauty with classics which aren’t horror books.

This is book is very short because it has around 100 pages which of course depends on what copy of this book you get. 

The main plot in this book is about the suffering and death of a successful judge named Ivan Ilyich. Which makes this book to a very grim, dark and sad book. 

I didn’t have a lot of expectations for this book before I started reading it and I didn’t know anything about this book before I started reading it. And in my case it was the best solution because I didn’t end up getting disappointed.

The main character here, which of course is Ivan Ilyich is painful average person which only rotates between work and his home. And I had super hard time trying to like him or relate to him.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marriage for herself, while attempting to push her daughter into a dismal match. A magnificently crafted novel of Regency manners and mores that will delight Austen enthusiasts with its wit and elegant expression.

I need to be honest and say that I’m not a Jane Austen fan, of course I thought that this book is okay but nothing more than that.

This book is a mix between historical fiction and romance. I was a fan of the historical fiction part in this book but the old time romances aren’t for me because 100% of the time I just hate them. 

The plot here was okay for the most part. The historical fiction part of this book was super interesting but the romance part had dragged it down a lot for me personally.

The main character here which of course is Lady Susan is a manipulative, hypocritical, a liar and sort of a bitch. But overall Ive liked here for some strange reason, because in real life I would hate her. The rest of the characters in this book were okay for the most part. There were some characters in this book which I didn’t like but for the most part I liked the majority of the characters in this book.

To be fully honest this book feels unfinished in a way. And it lacks bit of polish to it in my opinion. 

This book also contains a lot of letters send between the characters in this book, and they all contains the events and action happening in Lady Susan’s life. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5