Category: Fiction Books
By Peter on Feb 2, 2010 in Excellent book, Fiction Books, Herman Wouk, Historical Fiction, World literature, bestseller, book review | 1 Comment
The Winds of War (1971) told the story of the extended family of Captain Victor “Pug” Henry up to and including the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Captain Henry, is a military man, to some extent a scholar, a translator, and an advisor to Franklin Roosevelt and other statesmen. War and Remembrance picks up the [...]
By Peter on Jan 4, 2010 in Classical novel, D.H. Lawrence, Excellent book, Fiction Books, The World of Books, World literature, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
Lady Chatterley’s Lover is a delightful novel and surely one of the most extraordinary literary works of the twentieth century. It is a book with a history – a previously banned book. It was banned in England and the United States after its initial publication in 1928 due to the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its [...]
By Peter on Nov 26, 2009 in Classical novel, Excellent book, Fiction Books, Jonathan Swift, The World of Books, World literature, book review, fantasy | 1 Comment
The world literature is full of treasures. One of them is Gulliver’s Travels, a truly remarkable and excellent book. It is a book everybody has read. But most have read it as a children’s book, and many in an edited version where some of the social critique and some of the sexual content in [...]
By Peter on Jun 8, 2009 in Award winner, Danish writer, Fiction Books, Morten Ramsland, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
Doghead (Danish title Hundehoved)is a somewhat quirky novel. It has received rave reviews in Europe – and has won the Danish Best Novel and Best Author awards, as well as Book of the Year, the Reader’s Prize and the 2005 Golden Laurel Prize. Not bad!
Strange, yet appealing, Doghead follows three generations of a dysfunctional, odd [...]
By Peter on Apr 29, 2009 in Award winner, Classical novel, Crime Books, Excellent book, Fiction Books, Historical Fiction, The World of Books, Thomas Mann, World literature, book review | 0 Comments
Some works of art are almost logically impossible. Often literature and art capture and present phenomena in ways that contribute to their understanding. This most certainly is the case with the wonderful novel Buddenbrooks. If it is at all possible to convey 19th century German bourgeois atmosphere and culture in a single book, then [...]
By Peter on Apr 1, 2009 in Excellent book, Fiction Books, Norwegian Writer, Susan Choi, The World of Books, Thriller, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
After fictionalizing elements of the Patty Hearst kidnapping for her second novel (the 2004 Pulitzer finalist American Woman: A Novel), here Choi combines elements of the Wen Ho Lee accusations and the Unabomber case to create a haunting meditation on the myriad forms of alienation.
The suggestively named Lee, as he’s called throughout, is a solitary [...]
By Peter on Mar 10, 2009 in Crime Books, Fiction Books, Historical Fiction, Jeffrey Archer, The World of Books, Thriller, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
Jeffrey Archer, the somewhat controversial British master storyteller, whose novels and short stories have topped the bestseller lists around the world, and with sales of more than 135 million copies, has just published a new novel. This one, Paths of Glory, is different from other books Archer has written – it is a novel based [...]
By Peter on Feb 8, 2009 in Alice Sebold, Excellent book, Fiction Books, bestseller, book review | 1 Comment
“When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily.” This is how The Almost Moon begins.
Helen Knightly kills her own mother. Her mother is elderly, weak, has been sick for a long time, and now she has pooped in her pants. Helen sets out to clean her, but ends up killing her instead.
Thus [...]
By Peter on Jan 30, 2009 in Excellent book, Fiction Books, Jeffrey Archer, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
In Kane and Abel Jeffrey Archer tells the story of two men, one Polish, an illegitimate son of a gypsy, the other rich and privileged from a wealthy Boston banking family. Abel Rosnovski survives countless setbacks, emigrates to the US and builds a thriving hotel chain. William Kane [...]
By Peter on Jan 22, 2009 in Classical novel, Fiction Books, Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian Writer, World literature, book review | 0 Comments
Brand is the drama of absolute intransigence in support of the religious life as opposed to the hedonistic one. The motto of Brand, the main character, is “All or nothing”. He is a strong person, a very stubborn Norwegian, and he does not admit compromises nor expedients, but goes directly to his goal, over-riding [...]
