And I was being so intellectual up to this point too! I used to love Stephen King, but now not so much. This book in particular struggles. He really labours the whole “I am a storyteller” thing, the language is pitched at 5 year olds in some places.
He also pulls out all the [...]

Posted at: May 30th, 2001 - 10:25 pm - Number of Comments » 0

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I read 1984 for fun when I was like 14 I think. I understood it a lot better 7 or 8 years later. Animal Farm is a similar theme of Socialism gone horribly wrong, but told in the manner of a fairy tale. In some ways the metaphor is a bit obvious and [...]

Posted at: May 11th, 2001 - 2:24 pm - Number of Comments » 0

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