#book comment

Author: Lewis Carroll

ISBN: 9780553213454

Alice and Wonderland is a story I have read years ago, from my childhood and I decided to make a book review of it.

IBF 22: Book Comment: God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens

I know, ugh. I just posted the following on GoodReads, which I consider a “comment” and not a “review” because, well that’s in the comment:

So… people have done bad things in the name of religion. If that’s news to you then you live in a very special place. Conversely, if you think that religion is required for people to behave, that says more about your own un-self-actualized existence where…

This book was a very particular mix of the classic bedtime stories our parents read to us when we fell asleep (well, not in my case as my parents never read me half a book). It combined many of the aspects of the classic fantasy/ happily-ever-after stories we all know; Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, the goose that lay golden eggs, the frog that turns into a prince after a slippery and disgusting peck on its crusty back (that image gives me shivers).

All in all, I enjoyed reading it very much; I felt as if I was reading a modern version book of all of my favorite fairytales. It was very confusing at first keeping up with so many characters at once (The woodcutters had seven kids and they all have weekday names, I don’t know if it was my lack of concentration but I had a really hard time identifying who was who)

I saw this book on the shelf and said "Oh why not?" as I tend to indulge in terrible romantic books just for entertainment.

Hunger games mixed in with the bachelor seemed like a great idea to me but I felt that it was poorly executed. I read many goodreads reviews of this book and found many of them to be tremendously accurate and representative of what I felt like after finishing it and that I hadn't even begun to find words to express.

If you're searching to read for an entertaining book and you can handle extremely flat characters, a more than stereotypical prince that says "my dear" more times than there are deaths in kill bill, an extremely annoying main character with a name that is even more annoying than her attitude, awful (when I say awful I really mean TERRIBLE and TO DIE FOR) character names, a TERRIBLY developed dystopian society in which you probably won't understand half of what is happening... then read this.

If you love sci-fi and dystopian societies do NOT read this, I'll just leave it at "United Sates of China". If you have any regard for history and things that actually could happen in real life and logic then do NOT pick up this book I'm telling you beforehand JUST DON'T. I KNOW IT HAS A PRETTY COVER BUT DON'T LET IT GET TO YOU! YOU CAN DO IT BE STRONG. (yes I am screaming this part, that's how  serious I am for you to beware of the consecuences of reading this).

I must admit I was entertained (not without continuous snorting due to the ridiculousness this pages held) but the entertainment wasn't worth filling my head with such nonsense.

I started reading the second book and it was so painful I couldn't get past page 50, just THINK ABOUT IT, how BAD does a book have to be for a person like me to be incapable of even getting to the middle of it?

If you didn't read anything of my intense ramblings I'll just leave it at this: Just don't, steer clear and you'll be ok.

Eragon is the first book of the mythological fantasy saga of Inheritance Cycle written by Christopher Paolini. This book presents the classical quest of a young farmer called Eragon who, after the encounter with a dragon egg, starts an adventure that moves him from being a simple teenage villager into a powerful influence on the destiny of his whole world.

Paolini develops a pretty linear story, with the basic elements of the fantasy world such as the powerful sword, the destined main character to become a legendary fighter and a struggle to save the nation from an undesired and overpowered enemy. Although this story involves such predictable factors, it does not stop being an immersive and entertaining experience.

If you are looking for a good book to read, with basic literature level (it was actually written when Paolini was 15 years old) and involving mythical and fantastical characters, this might be your choice .

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Lustrum (A Roman Political Thriller) By Robert Harris - Book Review

Lustrum is Robert Harris’s third venture into the world of ancient Rome, after Pompeii and Imperium. Lustrum is a sequel to Imperium, featuring the same characters, primarily the lawyer and schemer, Cicero, and the main man himself, Julius Caesar.

Of course you can’t have Caesar without his main rival too, Pompey, and he is there with his vainglorious victory parades as he tries to garner support and favours, just like the all rest.

The story opens with the discovery of a child’s mutilated body, fished from the banks of the river Tiber. It bears all the signs of a ritualistic killing, but who would do such a terrible thing?

No shortage of candidates as it turns out.

This book is all about politics, just as his previous book Ghost was. It looks into the justice and rights and wrongs of waging wars in overseas territories, and questions if such things are really needed, or necessary. Sound familiar? It should, and it’s not the only thing that rings true today, as politicians bend the truth and bring influence to bear to get what they really want.

Lustrum pokes a stick at all those responsible, two thousand years or so apart.

Never underestimate a stick poker.

The story develops into an outright conflict between the two main characters, Cicero and Caesar, narrated through the eyes of Cicero’s slave and secretary, Tiro.

As with all of Robert Harris’s works it is wonderfully well researched and written, though for me this is not one of his most exciting works. Plenty of others disagree. Please make up your own mind.

Lustrum is Mister Harris’s seventh work of fiction and all have been bestsellers and it is easy to see why, but where would you rank this one against the others? Fifth or sixth for me, but as I say, others see things differently.