Poe’s poems favour lyricism over storytelling, style over substance. But when he combines the two, as he does in The Raven, his poetry is mesmeric.
-Imran
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Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong [Book Thoughts]
Islam: A Short Story is 1400 years of history in 150 pages. Told like a story, light on the details, heavy on the understanding. Worthy insights.
-Imran
Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut [Book Thoughts]
Arctic Summer is a biographical-historical hybrid capturing E.M. Forster’s secret homosexuality. It’s a depiction of the times, is factually accurate, and it kept me interested.
-Imran
In A Strange Room by Damon Galgut [Book Thoughts]
400+ words and I feel I’ve said nothing meaningful about In a Strange Room. It’s excellent, it’s honest and it’s real. It’s worth the read.
-Imran
The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut [Book Thoughts]
The Good Doctor is a bleak chronicle carved from life, a web of unconnected connections, a solitary story in the middle of nowhere. An anti-novel: quality reading.
-Imran
If On A Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino [Book Thoughts]
You might find that If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller is complex, intricate and different; a search for an end to a book which has only beginnings.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka [Book Thoughts]
The Trial is a surreal book that may or engage or annoy you. Kafka goes the opposite direction to many authors: using the complex to show the simple.
-Imran
