Review: Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
The good Brilliant premise. Dark, disturbed, neurotic, unpredictable characters. The combination of the premise and the characters ma...
The good Brilliant premise. Dark, disturbed, neurotic, unpredictable characters. The combination of the premise and the characters ma...
The good A reasonably satisfying conclusion to the Silo trilogy. Doesn’t jump around as much in time as the second book, so it’s easier to foll...
DNF. Each chapter is ~2 pages of platitudes, new age babble, and Buddhist-wannabe spiritual nonsense. All life is interconnected, we’re all creative, there’s ene...
The good A cute, feel-good story. It will make you smile. Lots of twists and turns. Funny, unpredictable, zany characters. The n...
The good An amazing insider’s reveal of the Italian mafia. It shows that the scope & scale of their operations is absolutely mind blowing. Their ...
The good An imaginative new world, where the seas are made out of colorful spores that react in violent and magical ways when they come into contact with...
The good Does a great job of putting you into the world of ancient Pompeii. You feel like you’re walking around Southern Italian cities, feel the heat of...
The good A somewhat interesting cautionary tale of climate change, war, and weapons of mass destruction. Some creative ideas around how ants an...
The good An interesting look at life in New York in the 1930s. Some interesting and mostly unpredictable characters. Starts strong. T...
The good A fascinating first-hand account of being an astronaut. The space program is truly one of mankind’s greatest achievements, and I loved learning ...