postmodernblues's Reviews (465)

The Psychology of Time Travel

Kate Mascarenhas

3.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Ghostbusters, Volume 1: The Man From The Mirror

Erik Burnham, Dan Schoening

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense 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

Okay, was nobody going to tell me that the ghost of Jake Blues appears to Ray in his dream just to tell him he made a good choice by choosing Stay Puft as Gozer's destructor form? Or did I just have to read that in the Ghostbusters comic books myself? Even my fanfiction-addled brain couldn't have come up with a crossover that poignant. It's like the ACU (Aykroyd Cinematic Universe) crossover of the century. Hang on, the cogs are turning...

Ziggy, Stardust and Me

James Brandon

2.0

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-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

Swamplandia!

Karen Russell

3.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious relaxing 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

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

5.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Has a more devastating line ever been uttered than "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers?" I think not.

Aurora Rising

Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman

3.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-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 Myth of Sisyphus

Albert Camus

4.5

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

Jo & Laurie

Melissa de la Cruz, Margaret Stohl

1.5

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad 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

I don't really have any rational reason for disliking this, but I do. I just can't help thinking how much Louisa May Alcott would have objected to it. Maybe it's just because I am adamantly anti-Jo/Laurie, but I don't really think this book had anything interesting to say about Little Women beyond "Laurie and Jo should have gotten together". Also, I really disliked the liberties taken with Jo's "real" life intermingling with Alcott's. Despite this, though, the writing style emulated Alcott's fairly well, and it wasn't entirely unenjoyable to read.