Category: Reading

50 Classic: Crime and Punishment 0

50 Classic: Crime and Punishment

Sitting in the light of the rising sun on my patio this morning, I finished Crime and Punishment. I have to say, I really enjoyed the novel and regret never having read it before. ...

50 Classics: The Sound and The Fury 0

50 Classics: The Sound and The Fury

While I acknowledge that Faulkner successfully experimented with a very unusual technique in creating this book, I do not think the novel is all that compelling as a work in itself. So little in...

50 Classics: Watership Down 0

50 Classics: Watership Down

Although work had all but eaten my brain yesterday, I did manage to eventually unwind enough to sit down and finish Watership Down from my slowly shrinking list of 50 Classics. I’d seen the...

50 Classics: Cyrano de Bergerac 0

50 Classics: Cyrano de Bergerac

After the grueling chore of Stranger in a Strangeland I had to read something light off my 50 Classics list that I knew I would enjoy.  Cyrano de Bergerac was both and within arm’s...

50 Classics: Stranger in a Strangeland 0

50 Classics: Stranger in a Strangeland

Hey look, finished another title off my long-suffering 50 Classics list! Regrettably, it was Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strangeland. Finishing it took enormous force of will, for this was a truly, truly, truly terrible...