This review’s got spoilers! Look away! The worst part of the war is not what you think it is. It’s not your enemy who’s willing to put a bullet in you, nor is it the fear of death that is constantly there. According to The Naked and the Dead the…

One of the most difficult that I’ve ever read is and will always be Keynes’s General Theory. I am not a hardcore economist or hold any certification in the field, which already ruled me out from the target audience. I know that picking up this book will be a bit…

Revolutionary Road starts off with a failed play. The lead character, played by our heroine April, started off unwavering, confident, and a beacon in an otherwise garbage spectacle. But in the middle she gradually loses it as she becomes more aware of the play’s decline, slowly at first, and then…

Like any Roald Dahl books, The Witches is fantastic for its imaginative storytelling, absurd humour, inventive words and likeable main characters that you’re comfortable rooting for. There is a chain smoking Norwegian grandma here, and she’s smoking big ass cigars. She’s my favourite and she’s also modelled after Roald Dahl’s…

American Gods is a book that I wanted to like, and did for a while, until it fell apart in the end. I honestly couldn’t understand the fascination. It is a messy book, full of loose symbolism and characters who are supposed to be colourful and interesting on paper, but…

Walter Scott, back in the day, would have enjoyed the same successes that J.K. Rowling or Stephen King would be lauded for today. His Scottish novels were immensely popular for English readers, as it portrays a world that coexists with their own, but unfamiliar, quaint. Ivanhoe broke this trend by…

Murder on the Orient Express is perhaps the well known of Agatha Christie’s most well-known sleuth, Hercule Poirot. It is remarkable then that the story takes place between a couple of other cases, which is not related to the preceding and proceeding novels. But crime can happen anywhere, and what…

You can’t avoid concrete. It’s just bloody everywhere. You can say that it’s one of the most important inventions ever made by man next to brewing coffee, or sliced bread. Either way, it’s pretty useful. Well I got some bad news for you. Practically all the concrete that you see…

If you somehow made it past Dune Messiah and curious to find out about the fate of Arrakis, Paul Atreides and his kids, then you’d be obliged to pick up Children of Dune. To be honest, I wasn’t even that keen on picking this up, but I found the book…