Pearl S. Buck‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Good Earth (1931), is the remarkable story of a farmer’s reversal of fortune in rural China in the early 1900’s. Wang Lung is the son of a poor, simple, farmer, but his luck starts to change when his father buys a bride for him, O-Lan, a former slave…
If you’re in the mood for a fast-paced, action-packed fantasy series which doesn’t take itself too seriously, look no further than Scott Lynch‘s Gentelman Bastard series, starting with The Lies of Locke Lamora. The first book of the series, The Lies of Locke Lamora, published in 2006 follows the life and adventures of the titular…
If you were alone in your apartment and see a man strangling a woman to death in the apartment right across yours, what would you do? Would you immediately run to the telephone and report it to the police? Would you run across to the apartment and try to stop the murderer? Or, if you were…
And Then There Were None has been hailed by critics as Agatha Christie‘s masterpiece. She herself has mentioned that And Then There Were None was one of the most difficult novel to write, owing to the difficulty of the plot. Published in 1939, And Then There Were None, brought forth a new form of mystery thriller, one…
Horrorstor, a novel by Grady Hendrix, is about a haunted furniture store called Orsk. Hendrix describes Orsk as an all-American furniture store in Scandinavian clothing; a blatant Ikea copycat. Orsk employs thousands of “partners” in over a hundred branches all over the United States – big boxy identical buildings with huge labyrinthine showrooms designed to…
I talk about guilty pleasures on here a lot when I describe certain books I’ve read. Just what exactly is a “guilty pleasure?” Different people will have different definitions of their ‘guilty pleasures.’ What may be a guilty pleasure for some, may be the norm for others. It all depends on your personal preferences and how…
The Misanthropologist 