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http://msarki.tumblr.com/post/148241449118/the-grammar-of-rock-art-and-artlessness-in-20thWhat is immediately apparent are the abundant errors present in the text of this garrulous book. The typos and misprints are so numerous I am surprised Alexander Theroux allowed the trade edition to be placed ...
The most irritating thing about cliches is that they are so often true. (This statement is also a cliche.) The old saw that kept popping into my head as I read The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy, was "Marry in haste. Repent at leisure." The first half of this book is bad marriage after bad ma...
“Hurt so goodCome on baby, make it hurt so good” - John MellencampWUT? Well, reading Thomas Hardy novels always poses this kind of challenge. They hurt, and yet I keep coming back to him because they are indeed good and this kind of hurt is like a good exercise for your EQ. In term of language, I do...
This was the last book on the English I curriculum and while I am undecided as to whether I actually read it (namely because when you get to that end of the year the last books on the reading list tend to be the ones that get dumped in favour of study for the pending exams) I did have a tutor that w...
Oh my God I hated this. Got to page 70 and said, "Enough already!"Maybe I'm stupid? Maybe I didn't give it enough of a chance?But... I read Dickens and loved it. De Sade and loved that too. Eugenie Grandet... check. So why didn't I love this one too? Oh my God how painfully this book is written! Wou...
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