Le Morte d’Arthur is not actually one long epic about the life and death of King Arthur, but rather a collection of stories of the knights of the Round Table fused by Malory into a somewhat coherent tale…
Post by David J. Peterson Posted on
October 9, 2011 – 5:01 am
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Posted in A-, Reviews
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Also tagged Art, Classic, Comic, Cover, English, Epic, Fantasy, Le Farce d’Arthur, Long, Thomas Malory, War, Worthwhile
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After the events of Catching Fire, our 17-year-old heroine Katniss finds herself part of some rebel plot hatched by the supposedly destroyed District 13 to overthrow the evil Capitol…
The second book in the Hunger Games series starts off innocuously enough. Fresh from her status as the winner of the 74th Annual Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen travels through the other oppressed districts of the nation of Panem on a victory tour…
The Hunger Games debuted just a few years ago and quickly sold many millions and was snatched up for a movie. In short, the book’s exposure is universal, and anyone who’s anyone has already read the whole trilogy by now…
Given the magnificent structure of the work, and the quality of the poetry in Italian, I have to wonder if it’s worthwhile to read The Divine Comedy in translation…
Post by David J. Peterson Posted on
July 25, 2011 – 12:50 am
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Also tagged Art, Classic, Controversial, Dante Alighieri, Epic, Experimental, Horror, Italian, Long, Poetry, Translation
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Beyond Good and Evil is a philosophical text, and a unique one. It’s uniqueness can only be appreciated if you’ve read every philosophical text written prior to Beyond Good and Evil, as well as the rest of Nietzsche’s work. I can proudly claim that I…haven’t read any of that. At all. Like, ever…
Post by David J. Peterson Posted on
July 5, 2009 – 12:00 am
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Also tagged Classic, Comic, Controversial, Experimental, Friedrich Nietzsche, German, Non-Fiction, Offensive, Philosophical, Poetry, Translation, XIX
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O’Barr wrote The Crow as a way to deal with his girlfriend’s death at the hands of a drunk driver, and it kind of reads and looks like emotion spilled all over the page. It could really have done with some serious editing by someone who wasn’t emotionally involved…
There’s been a backlash by literariacs everywhere, who turn up their noses at people who praise The Metamorphosis. Claiming to never have read The Metamorphosis is something they wear like a trophy. In fact, if you don’t roll your eyes if The Metamorphosis is mentioned around these people, they’ll take their lattés and go elsewhere…
Post by David J. Peterson Posted on
March 18, 2009 – 12:00 am
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Also tagged Classic, Comic, Czech, Experimental, Franz Kafka, German, Short, Translation, Worthwhile
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Undoubtedly, you’ve heard of The Neverending Story, and have heard of it because of the movie. The movie, in its own way, is a classic of the fantasy film genre of the 1980s (whose king, of course, is Labyrinth), and is quite enjoyable, but it differs in a couple key ways…
Post by David J. Peterson Posted on
December 26, 2008 – 12:00 am
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Also tagged Classic, Experimental, Fantasy, German, Graphic, Juvenile, Michael Ende, Philosophical, Translation, Worthwhile
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The book Don Quixote is about an older man (I like to think early to mid fifties) who decides that he is a knight, in an era (early 17th century Spain) that no longer has any knights. He sallies forth with his neighbor, Sancho Panza, whom he calls squire, and does various things like attack windmills he fancies to be giants. All of that stuff is in the book, but it turns out to be much more than that…