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The Big Sleep (Bogart) was good - like most good film adaptations, it simplified the plot, which was somewhat of a labyrinth. The Hayes office wouldn't let them talk about some of the things going on, which renders some things a bit obscure.

I'd rather read Dan Brown than Pat Conroy, at least based on attempting to read Beach Music. If any fans of his care to tell me this book is atypical, please jump in, but it appears to be horribly overwritten and melodramatic. Reads like a soap opera. Somewhat of a surprise based on the books of...

Good lord Dan Brown makes the most fundamental mistakes in his writing. Doesn't even seem to be able to manage the passage of time properly or the fact that people have to eat and drink every now and again. Picked up Digital Fortress in a bookstore once before TDC became so famous and scanned a...

I've read every one of Chandler's novels (all of his full-length novels had Philip Marlowe as the PI), more than once, and while I agree that Long Goodbye could arguably be his best one, and Playback is probably one of the weaker, if not the weakest, I've still enjoyed reading it more than once...

Recently found and read Cold Comfort Farm - indeed a funny book, probably a lot more funny if you remember all those required reading dreary English lit rural novels that the book is sending up. Seems to strike at the heart of a problem I have with a lot of drama or literature, i.e. the fact...

I'm sure someone will be able to cite some classic passage that I would have to make an exception on, but some literature or writing teacher of mine pointed out that direct characterization (directly telling the reader what someone or something is supposed to be like) is really a rather crude...