Book Reviews

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Dark Matter

Blake Crouch

Dark Matter

I really couldn't put this book down. I stayed up all night finishing it and I don't regret it.

It's currently a good show on Apple TV+

5/5

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Anthony Doer

I read this book because I've written about my ideal in Cloudland

I don't believe in coincidences so I felt I was supposed to read this book when I saw it at Barnes and Noble

Coincidentally my Mom had already read it and said it was terrific but you have to get through it because it takes a while to intertwine the seperate storylines

The Payoff is so big at the end that it's worth the long slog.

The prose made me feel like I will never be a professional author. He's that good.

In the story Cloud Cuckoo Land is reference to a sort of utopia a fool believes in, and it's a funny story about the fool in pursuit of cloudland, but the main storyline is about how that text survives over time and how powerful stories can be to humanity.

4.75/5

The Name of the Wind

Patrick Rothfuss

Kvothe

This is the first book of a trilogy with the third book currently unreleased.

I found this book to be very interesting at parts.

It's a story of a man telling his life story. I like the parts of the book that take place during present time.

When he's telling his story. I liked the beginning and the end, but I was bored while he was at wizarding school. The University was surprisingly boring.

However, I think it was in a way deliberately boring. It was making the magic and the character more grounded.

Ultimately it picks up the pace at the end and I really liked how it ended.

I think I will buy the second book and read it.

Some of the writing is spectacular but I definitely got annoyed by the boring middle of the book so I will give it a 4/5.

4/5

1984

George Orwell

1984

My favorite book

5/5

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond

My favorite philosophical book

4.5/5