Posted on September 9, 2008 by scathingbookreviews
The Diary of Anne Frank, by Anne Frank, (naturally) is one of those books that I just can’t bring myself to read because of the “depression factor”. I’ve seen two Film Adaptations of the Diary of Anne Frank and I just can’t bring myself to read the book, because you know, there just isn’t going [...]
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Posted on August 29, 2008 by scathingbookreviews
The Glass Menagerie by Tennesee Williams isn’t a book per se, but a play, but on the other hand, I had to read it in Mrs. Williams English III Class, so there. It’s most famous as New York Stage Production, but was originally written as a screenplay, and filmed twice, once in 1950, and again [...]
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Posted on August 4, 2008 by scathingbookreviews
The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini was not written to profit by America’s involvement in Afghanistan (I hope), but it certainly gained a great deal of attention due to U.S. presence there. I imagine that if Americans weren’t in the country in great numbers, The Kite Runner would have been relegated to the lower shelves of [...]
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Posted on July 22, 2008 by scathingbookreviews
Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeareis certainly a story you can’t avoid. They say the story of star-crossed lovers was old even when Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet, but even if its true, its never been done so indelibly.
Take Romeo and Juliet away and you also lose West Side Storyand a good hunk of Shakespeare [...]
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Posted on February 21, 2008 by scathingbookreviews
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is probably the most famous book that the fewest have ever read. To rephrase, we’ve all heard of it. Most of us haven’t read it.
Why? Its reputation for complexity and for length (although it’s 2 places behind Atlas Shrugged in the list of longest novels.) [...]
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Posted on November 10, 2007 by scathingbookreviews
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell is a classic that we’re all familiar with. OK, one that we’ve all heard of, anyway. No, its not the same as the movie The Black Stallion.
Imagine a Charles Dickens novel. Now insert a big Black Horse into the role usually played by a little boy.
Yes, THAT book. [...]
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