fathima_ashab's Reviews (159)

This is one of those books that will make you to appreciate the life you live. Though the story didn't start that good, it ended really well. The way Rick accept his broken life as it is and moved on further with his persistent hope would inspire anyone who is whining about their life even without their knowledge. Rishab's style of writing did improve towards the end but I feel that he would have edited the former part better lately. But overall it was good and light reading. Keep shining, Rishabh. 

I have never read a book like this. It's enchanting. It's my most favorite book now. Erin morgenstern has created the breathtaking circus with a fantastic feat of imagination. She is awesome. The book is Dazzling😍

Let me start with the cover. It's so beautiful ♥️♥️ I do judge a book by it's cover and I was right on this.
And the title is just perfect ♥️ Yes, the story revolves around the undelivered letters. So the story has done enough justice to its title.
The plot was too perfect, intriguing and heart wrenching ♥️♥️♥️
It can be completed even in an hour but I took another couple of hours to grasp the essence of it.
I have no words to express how I feel right now. Damn!!! This story left me speechless. This book had everything I love to read in a book. It made me laugh. Cry. Think. love. And appreciate small things a little more.
This is the best classic I've read after 'love in the time of cholera'.
The story setting, plot, love, books, library, letters, everything is so perfect ♥️♥️♥️
I cried my heart out in the last three chapters.
I felt so much pain while reading. I felt heavy through out the story, except for the part where he portrayed love in different type of relationships.
I don't think I'm ever gonna forget this awesome story.
Gaawwwd!!
This was just brilliant ❤️

It was amazing!

I loved the way she has written out all her feelings. They are too good to be true😍❤️ I loved the second and the last chapter. Most of the poems were so relatable. And I loved the way she has expressed about depression. It was raw and good. Omg! I totally loved it.

Metamorphosis is the story of a man who wakes up from his sleep to find that he has transformed into 'a big monstrous bug'. This is a novella with three chapters. There is not much of a twist or anything. It was a plain ordinary story of a man which becomes absurd slowly. It was more of a story that spoke about human existence and alienation in the modern society. I couldn't think of the protagonist as anything but a schizophrenic patient who goes through his difficult days in a conservative family blaming himself for what he is going through and also blamed by others too in the family who in turn cares about nothing but the society.

And it was so bad that even after working hard all his youth and being a very useful person in the family, once he became someone like who can no longer contribute his part to the family both socially and financially, they started losing interest in him. And it was so clear that it wasn't his fault that he became a bug.

The saddest part about the whole story was that right from the beginning till the end he never once taught about how he changed like this or how to become normal. All he thought and worried about was his family. What they will think of him. How they will manage the situation. and What he can do to help them somehow. But they hardly tried to help him out. Even though he was transformed into something out of the ordinary, he was still their son. They were supposed to accept him for who he was. They clearly failed doing that.

This book is such an eye opener. I would recommend everyone to read it. Kafka has done really a good work here. If you have studied about his life, you will find that this work says more about his own life.

The story started with a lighter note full of fun, parties, pony rides and richness, loving family, obedient dark slaves, many children, humble women, raging men, everything was perfect like it used to be but then the actual story started only when the civil war happened. They lost everything, ran for their life, forced to face defeat, their love for their land and the hatred on Yankees. Until then Tara and Atlanta were just beautiful counties of Georgia with Rich people who lived luxurious life with darkies as slaves to take care of them. The main protagonist of the book was Scarlett O'Hara. It takes courage and talent to bring such a headstrong, self centered, vivacious girl as a protagonist and still make the reader to fall in love with the book throughout the story. Another scandalous character was Rhett Butler and only he could understand Scarlett completely and still love her. And his character was another problematic one but you can't resist yourself from admiring him. All the characters were so real that you would actually start living with them and it will be a big tragedy at the end when you leave them. No, when they leave you. My another favorite character was Melanie aka Melly. Omg!! She was such a delicate, small, loving character but also someone who never failed to put forth her opinion even if it was against everyone. She is soft but you cannot underestimate or take her granted for that. She will never leave my heart. And every description in the book was so real that you cannot skip it even if it is lengthy. Damn!!! I loved how the author really skips so many few years in a line and describes the present so lovely in two complete pages. I found it too lengthy some times but that's what made me care for the plot and the characters so much. That's the very beauty of every classic out there. and I couldn't help but noticing a fact that this book has been a seed for many fantasy series we are reading today. You cannot stop relating them to every character you have read about. For instance, Tarleton family with many children reminded me of Weasleys, especially the mother and the twins. They reminded me of Molly, Fred and George so much. And Rhett's character is seen mostly in every fantasy these days. Heroes who are sarcastic, handsome, intelligent, strong and love the heroines wholeheartedly even when so many women are drooling over them. I know I am bored of it to see such character in every book I get to read but also I couldn't stop myself from admiring the original character as this. I am telling you, this book is such a classic and I recommend everyone to read it at least once in their lifetime. It's totally worth it. I gave 5 stars because I couldn't give anything less to a book which pulled all my emotions out with it's complete charm.