Tag: Fiction Book Review

Taken from the poverty of her parents’ home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle’s absence in Antigua, the Crawford’s arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless taste for flirtation. Mansfield Park is considered Jane Austen’s first mature work and, with its quiet heroine and subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, one of her most profound.

In my opinion this book gotta be the best book written by Jane Austen so far. Of course I didn’t read all of her works yet.

The plot here is super interesting, fun, enjoyable and overall super amazing. I read this book in one day because I couldn’t pull myself away from the plot and this book because I was so engaged in this book which really surprised me a lot. 

The writing style here was amazing, Jane Austen truly showed that she is one of the best authors of the past. After reading this book I truly understand the full hype with Jane Austen and her works. 

The characters here were super amazing. I would love to meet them if it was possible. I really loved all of the characters in this book. Because all of the characters had something unique to them which made them different from the rest of the character. Which I personally love when it happens.

I Give This Book 5 / 5

Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work “her own darling child” and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, “as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print.” The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen’s radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.

I gotta say that this book was okay. I didn’t have a lot of expectations for this book but it still disappointed me in a way because I wanted to like much more this book than I’ve did after reading it. 

The plot here is again too much about romance in a way, which I personally aren’t the biggest fan of. But if we look away from the romances in this book than I found myself enjoying the plot in this book a lot and I found it to be interesting and enjoyable read overall. 

This book is mostly a character study of 19th century England and of its societies, courtships etc. I am a big fan of that part of this book because I found it super interesting. 

The characters here was likeable, and I liked them a lot. There were couple of times were I was annoyed with the characters but still I’ve liked them. The moment were one of the female characters rejected a man’s proposal but then she found out that he is rich and he instantly changed her mind made me literally throw the book across the room. Talking about an 19th century gold digger. 

There were couple of moments in this book which were really boring and I wanted to DNF this book. But I struggled through them and I found myself with positive feedback for this book. Of course  not all polite as you might have seen above but still I gave it a high rating.

I Give This Book 4 / 5

A Room of One’s Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October, 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women’s colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled Women and Fiction, and hence the essay, are considered nonfiction. The essay is seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.

My first book written by Virginia Woolf and I gotta say that I wasn’t a big fan of this book. This book might be a bad place to start the journey with Virginia Wolf but at least it is a start with her works.

This book is more of are couple of feminist essays than rather a book. But it was a quick read overall. 

I can’t say that it was enjoyable or interesting read for me personally but it was defiantly a read which will give you some ideas on how life was back in the late 20s when this book was first published. 

The writing style was good and super old timey which I personnel love. But I felt like Virginia Woolf could have put a little more effort into it or it might be me who is being very picky. 

In this essays, Virginia Woolf tackled themes about women and fiction and the impact of privilege. Which were interesting to read but not super fun to read. Because to me felt like I was back in middle school and listening to a lecture about a topic I didn’t care about. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden sex worker, can offer the chance of redemption.

Yet again another classic which didn’t work for me. I’ve heard a lot of good things about this classic which it didn’t live up to for me. And I ended up DNF-ing it after having read 73% of it. But hey we don’t have to like all of the books most people finding enjoyable. 

This book was super boring and for me personally it was a punishment to read this book because there was almost nothing I liked about it. Of course there were couple of moments were it was starting to get interesting but then it was killed of on the next page. This happened couple of times and it really pissed me off because I wanted to really like this book and be one of these people who have nothing but good things to say about this book. 

The characters in this book were super annoying and super boring and I really wanted to murder them myself if they were real human beings because I just couldn’t stand them at all.

This book is very it’s repetitive and it basically says the same thing over and over again at least in the English Version I’ve read it in. 

The writing style here was super dry, uninteresting, boring and if I was required to read this book in school I wouldn’t never again pick up a book again because after reading this book I understand why some people hate reading books. 

The premise of this book sounds very interesting but the way it was told and it being mixed with super annoying and super boring character really killed the potential of the plot to this book.  

Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov was such a buzzkill that I wanted to beat the shit out of him because for me personally he was the biggest problem of why I didn’t like this book. The best way to describe him is overthinking maniac.

The biggest problem with this book for me is the way it was written because this book and the characters had the potential to be such a big hit for me but the writing here made it impossible for me to like it. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor’s warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love—and its threatened loss—the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.

After reading this book I fully understand the hype with Jane Austen because this book was amazing and I found myself enjoying this book much more than I’ve expected. 

The plot here is amazing. But I found myself not carrying for the romances in this book. But it was super fun reading this book and seeing where the plot in this book takes us. The plot in this book follows two teenager girls and their romances which I found very boring. 

The writing style was super old school but at the same time very fun and enjoyable. 

The characters here were okay but I wasn’t the biggest fan of all the characters here. I really didn’t care for them but I didn’t mind them at the same time. Which is a weird combination. 

This book would have been one of my favourite books if I didn’t focus so much on romances and the same thing goes to the characters in this book. 

I Give This Book 4 / 5

In Russia’s struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical chronicle, War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself, `a complete picture’, as a contemporary reviewer put it, `of everything in which people find their happiness and greatness, their grief and humiliation’.

I had kind of high hopes for this book because I’ve hear so many good things about this book but I also know that it won’t be a 5 star read for me because it isn’t something I would typically read but still I was disappointed in this book in a way. 

The plot was super boring for me personally and it really felt like torture for me to read it and I just DNF-ed this book when Ive read like 67% of it because I couldn’t keep on reading because it was so boring. For me personally it felt like it was lecture on way too many perspectives of this war which made me want to never pick up a classic again.

There were too many characters in this book which were so similar to each other that I just couldn’t tell them apart and all of the characters in this book became just the same person to me with different names. Leo Tolstoy could have done a better job here at setting the characters apart from each other because for me it was impossible to tell characters apart. 

For me personally this book felt like a textbook which came with very annoying, dry, stubborn and punishment loving professor built into it. After reading this book I reminded myself why I hated reading books when I was still in school. 

This book was also filled with long descriptions of battles which really made me want to shove a pencil in each of my eyes. These descriptions of battles would have been better if they were shorter and more relatable than they actually were. 

The writing style here was also very old school and it really made me so tired that I needed to take a break every 30 minutes. For me personally this book was mental beating just because I didn’t care about the characters here nor what happened next I just forced myself to read this book.

I Give This Book 1 / 5