You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.

postmodernblues's Reviews (465)

Fences: 1957

August Wilson

5.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Deliciously tragic. Feels like a little slice of history.

Beartown

Fredrik Backman

3.75

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

Those Pink Mountain Nights

Jen Ferguson

3.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad 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

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess

4.5

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

"Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?" -Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, page 96

I liked this book a whole lot more than I expected to. I think its reputation is perhaps an uncharitable one; it's only as violent as it needs to be to get its point across.

If someone made me physically unable to listen to my favorite music, I'd probably consider suicide, too.

Doctor Who: The Silent Stars Go By & Touched by an Angel

Dan Abnett, Jonathan Morris

3.0

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Catherine House

Elisabeth Thomas

2.75

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

Mall Goth

Kate Leth

3.0

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring relaxing sad 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

ok this book is really cute but the grooming plotline falls flat for me because why would the teacher give his best student Lolita if he's trying to groom her? Idk this just smacks of an author who hasn't actually read Lolita and thinks of it as something that would only appeal to pedophiles. Gross mischaracterization of a great book. Otherwise, I really enjoyed this graphic novel.

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Persuasion

Jane Austen

4.0

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

"... it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely..." - Jane Austen, Persuasion, page 92.

Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

Neil Gaiman

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Not a single miss in the lot of them. This is some of the best Gaiman I've read in awhile. These stories seemed to hit me at just the right time. I'm so glad I picked this up. I'm begging you on my knees to read "The Goldfish Pool and Other Stories". "Looking For The Girl", "We Can Get Them For You Wholesale", and "Murder Mysteries" were other standouts.

If you're a fan of Good Omens (the series and/or the book) and you haven't read "Murder Mysteries", do it. Do it right now.

If I should live to write half as well as Gaiman, I shall be contented.

More...