postmodernblues's Reviews (465)

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

4.25

adventurous challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Glorious. Beatnik summer is in full swing folks

Me Talk Pretty One Day

David Sedaris

4.0

funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Reading through the reviews on here and I'm convinced some of you scowl through comedy movies because the characters are "petty"...

Death in Her Hands

Ottessa Moshfegh

4.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Moshfegh's most paranoid novel so far. Deeply unsettling.

Beneath the Sugar Sky

Seanan McGuire

2.75

adventurous emotional hopeful relaxing fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Definitely the worst so far in the series. Will be continuing however

Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*perm**k*t, and Muse & Drudge

Harryette Mullen

5.0

Can't stop thinking about returning to Meow Wolf's OmegaMart, finding a dark corner, and rereading S*PeRM**K*T to myself like an incantation

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie

4.0

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro

3.75

emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The humans are cynically slavish to technology and the robots are spiritual. sob

The Panic Broadcast

Howard Koch

3.5

hopeful informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced

RIP Orson Welles you would have loved online ARGs

Literary Las Vegas: The Best Writing About America's Most Fabulous City

Nick Tosches, Mike Tronnes

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

Everything I could ever want or ask for out of a collection

Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Children's Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death

Kurt Vonnegut

5.0

challenging dark sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

So it goes

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