Journal Entry – 8/7/2015 – Therein lies the tale.
Fiction So after a day of trolling along the shores of Mutiny Bay, looking for one of the elusive 25lb kings that apparently all of our friends had already caught and ate, we finally gave up...
Category: Fiction
Review of Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”
Opinions range to the extremes on this book. Readers seem to be either reading for literary craft, pop psychology, turn of the 19th century global politics, or sociology / racism. The fact that Joseph Conrad can...
Why I like/dislike Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley My rating: 2 of 5 stars Most of the reviews I’ve read about this book are “Yech! – I hate Victor Frankenstein” or “Yay! I was moved to look deeper than the...
About Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited
I started reading Erewhon, by Samuel Butler, published in 1872, because I read somewhere that it contained a dystopian view of technology. It does, but this is a relatively small part of the entire thesis proposed...