Book Reviews & The Written Word
Without the Written Word, books wouldn't even exist.
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Payback is the name of the game in Gillian Flynn’s latest novel Gone Girl. Flynn, the author of two previous books – the stellar Sharp Objects and the slightly less stellar Dark Places – crafts a compelling portrait of a marriage told from the perspective of each party. Using a sinister split narrative, Gone Girl [...]
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We’ve all been there. Meekly wandering the aisles of the airport bookstore, wondering which paperback will take our mind off the impending doom of a water landing. And yet, despite hundreds of options, nothing seems to be remotely interesting. What’s a tremulous traveler to do? Below are 7 tips for finding a future favorite. Bestsellers [...]
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Movies are rarely as good as the written word that inspired them. But every now and then, Hollywood gets it right. I cannot even watch a film based on a book if I haven’t read it first. It just feels wrong! So grab your library card and get ready to do some reading, because your [...]
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It’s easy to hate on Twilight and The Hunger Games, but there is something eminently readable about both. Clear, simplistic language and heroic, one-dimensional characters cuddle a lazy reader, enticing attention typically reserved for soap operas and professional wrestling. On the flip side, however, are the authors everyone feels they ought to like, but don’t. [...]
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It’s hard to be a fan of David Foster Wallace. Since the publication of his universally revered literary tour de force, Infinite Jest, Wallace achieved iconic status in contemporary American letters as a brilliant but challenging writer—a perception crystallized by his untimely death in 2008. For this reason, it’s become almost a cliché to have [...]
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