A story about "The Horse and His Boy" — 4 years ago
The worst of the Narnia books—plodding, disjointed, a bit racist. Still good, of course, because it’s Narnia.
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A story about "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (rack) (Narnia)" — 4 years ago
The best of Narnia by far.
A story about "The Plague" — 4 years ago
Very good. Understated, but vivid. Strong images & characters. Camus’ experience in journalism shows in his language: never flowery, but always strong.
The first little section threw me for a bit the first time I picked this up, but once past the description of the town, the book engaged me quickly.
Seemed to sputter and lose its stickiness a bit about 20 pages from the end, but that could have just been the kittens & child competing for my attention.
Still, marvelous.
A story about "The Crying of Lot 49" — 4 years ago
While this book is good, like all the Pynchon I’ve read-engaging, enigmatic, stylistically fascinating-it seems lighter than the rest of his work in other areas than just page count, feeling more like blanched Philip Dick (though of course there are always similarities in the two’s books) than something on the same level as V.
Still, a good, fast read, with some great characters and ideas. Probably a good first Pynchon, for those who need convincing.
