Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature currently requires accessing the site using the built-in Safari browser.
Welcome
to BookAndReader!
We LOVE books and hope you'll join us in sharing your favorites and experiences
along with your love of reading with our community. Registering for our site
is free and easy, just CLICK
HERE!
Already a member and forgot your password? Click
here.
Peter Høeg is my country's greatest living novelist. He's an interesting writer; after 1996's The Woman and the Ape (the proceedings of which he donated to aid women in third world countries), he virtually disappeared and did not resurface until 2006 with The Quiet Girl. He doesn't give...
I wouldn't simply say it's basically about the American Dream, it has so much more depth to it. It's more about basing your entire existence around a lie and attempting to eventually deal with the truth, more about a father attempting to accomplish his own dreams through his own son, more about...
Ian McEwan's Atonement is partly set during the Dunkirk retreat of the Second World War, and has some very touching descriptions of what it was like for young women working as nurses in London in those years.
Saul Bellow's Dangling Man touches upon WW2 as well.
John Steinbeck's The Moon is...
I have mixed feelings about Murakami...I quite liked After the Quake, and about the first 80 or so pages of Norwegian Wood, but then it seemed to transform into this pseudo pattern, its protagonist bearing far too much resemblance to Holden Caulfield. It seemed to fake to me, ultimately.
First of all I'm very pleased to see the Groucho Marx quotes. He was not only the greatest comic genius ever, but also a well-read individual.
Anyways:
"The world of literature is a universe in which it is possible to establish whether a reader has a sense of reality or is the victim of...
Amid the recent controversy regarding certain caricatures published by a newspaper in my country, I really want to read this novel. Of course, even if I don't like it, I will always sympathize deeply with Rushdie for the disgusting reaction of the muslim world over it.
I can never decide whether I like Hemingway or not...perhaps I've not yet read enough of his work. I do, however, feel Fitzgerald was a better writer, alone for The Great Gatsby.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a good book, and the sane/insane theme is an interesting one, especially since it gradually seems that a large part of the bunch really are not insane in the traditional sense.
I think their is a certain degree of Christian symbolism in it, especially if
This is a very tough call, but I think it is as follows:
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevskiy
The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
The Outsider by Camus/Rabbit, Run by Updike/Atonement by McEwan
Yes, I cheated...
From what I've read so far, off the top of my head:
Ethan Hawley, from Steinbeck's The Winter of our Discontent
Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, from John Updike's Rabbit novels
Meursault, from Albert Camus' The Outsider
Michael Henchard from Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge
The narrator...