My first exposure to Peter S. Beagle came around two months ago when I stumbled upon Tamsin in the local used bookstore. Although I had heard good things I had never read him, and with Tamsin I was hooked. The Last Unicorn is Beagle's most well known book, having been made in to an animated … Continue reading Book Review: The Last Unicorn – By Peter S. Beagle
The definitive gothic novel, Dracula holds it's place not just as one of the key standards for Gothic fiction, but also as the chief progenitor of vampire lore as a whole. It may have been present before, but here Bram Stoker set the norm for what we expect from the realm of vampires. The text … Continue reading Book Review: Dracula – By Bram Stoker
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a fun, buoyant adventure following the tale of Arthur Dent as he narrowly escapes the earth's destruction in the wake of a new space super-highway being built in its place, hitching a ride with interstellar researcher Ford Prefect aboard the ship of the very alien bureaucrats whom destroyed … Continue reading Book Review: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – By Douglas Adams
With his life spanning the later half of the 19th Century, Oscar Wilde wrote in a wide variety of mediums, ranging from poetry to plays and from essays to fairy tales, and one novel. His fairy tales are arguably the most accessible of his writings, and as is the case with fairy tales revolve around … Continue reading Book Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray – By Oscar Wilde
Over the past few years I've read almost every work written by Chesterton. This book, however, stands above the others as having been my first glimpse into his paradoxical yet brilliant mind. I was first exposed to it in a video-game, Deus Ex, which coincidentally turns out to be one of the greatest video-games ever created … Continue reading Book Review: The Man Who Was Thursday – By G.K. Chesterton
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