adastrame's reviews
263 reviews

What a huge waste of time! This book is not only lacking any kind of interesting content whatsoever, it's also full of religious crap. Altogether, I just kept wanting to throw it against the wall in frustration. I can't believe I'll have to spent two seminar sessions talking about this garbage.

A literary milestone, what else?

Ugh, I don't get it and the "verse" is just terrible.

This is a terrible book. I have stared at its 270 pages without actually being able to read them. It's just so abysmally written than I could not grasp it at all. My mind would just slip after a sentence or two, and eventually I would notice that my eyes had just moved over another page full of words without knowing what they contain.

What I got from this book: there are two blokes named Nicholas, one is a dull satanist who builds churches with a secret ingredient in the 1710s, and one who investigates murders in those churches in the 1980s.

Spoiler

In the end of the book, they merge into one single space-time paradoxical freak.

That's all that happens. Now you know it all. Don't bother reading the book.

Ambitious comic about comics. It's interesting, but trying to sort out all the narrative levels can be a bit confusing.

Interesting feminist retelling of a Sanskrit legend, but I suspect to truly understand this, one has to be familiar with the legend...

Wow, this is terrible.

Despite Tolkien's admirable efforts to preserve the meter of the poem, I think it's not particuarly easier to read than the original. Due to this some of his choices seem a bit off (I have been comparing his translation with the original). For easier comprehension, it's better to read a prose translation.

Piers Plowman is such a tought nut to crack - this is the most helpful book ever!

This book might be a literary milestone in its portrayal of the inner turmoil and despair of a very lonely woman, but personally I just can't seem to enjoy reading books that have no real plot.