I read The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett a while ago but kept putting off writing about it because I don’t exactly know what to say. First, I can’t really decide whether I liked it or not. Second, I just find it hard to discuss. Let me try to describe it anyway… The novel opens…
The Club Dumas by Spanish writer Arturo Perez-Reverte is a mystery novel about books – ancient, mysterious, and priceless books, to be exact. Lucas Corso, the protagonist of The Club Dumas, has a very unique job. He gets paid by collectors, booksellers, book aficionados, and wealthy eccentrics to track down and obtain special books; expensive…
Have you ever read a book that had an interesting plot but was poorly executed? A novel that you would have loved had it been written differently? That’s how I feel about Erin Morgenstern’s novel The Night Circus. Published in 2011, The Night Circus, which is set in Victorian London, is a fantasy that tells the story…
The Misanthropologist 