Stop me if you’ve hear this before: mysterious giant metallic objects, robot/sculptures in this this case, suddenly appear all over the world and humanity at first freaks out, then adjusts. Upon further study, the unknowable objects, named Carls here, are revealed to have impossible properties, and … [Read more]
“Of course I do,” returned Arthur, a little irritably. “You mean that it is a double-bedded room, and that one of the beds is occupied?”
This is a collection of shorter pieces by Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. I recently read his early novella A Rogue's Life. These stories are for the most part from the same era as that novella. The lead story here is "The Dead Hand" and at first I thought it was … [Read more]
Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn’t enough for you.
This is a short collection of dramatic monologues by the Irish/French writer Samuel Beckett. So, I need to start off by stating that I couldn't possibly rate this post because I am definitively ill-equipped to offer judgment of what I read here. I will discuss what I felt about it and the … [Read more]
“It’s concerning you both; for doesn’t it seem odd that Gowing’s always coming and Cummings’ always going?”
So normally, I don't like serialized fiction. More specifically I don't care if something were serialized or not. I didn't really ever like Stephen King's The Green Mile, and when I read something from the 19th century like a Charles Dickens novel, I tend to try to read it in spite of how it was … [Read more]