This one was a doozy. It’s the book touted as the one that inspired George Orwell to write 1984 and in fact, there’s a lot of similarities. Written in 1921 it’s set in the 26th century in a dystopic panopticon society which works on Taylorism and has banned art and any individuality of any sort. […]
Review of House of the Dead by Dostoyevsky
I’ve been reading Dostoyevsky this year and he’s one of my favourite authors. I think I’m turning into a book snob 🤣 because 2023 has been a year of some brilliant reads of literary fiction that when I pick up a current popular read book, I get bored. If a book isn’t making me toss […]
Book Review of The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I’m on a mad reading spree of Dostoyevsky books. I love them although I haven’t read Crime and Punishment, Brothers Karamazov or Demons yet (I’m psyching myself up for them). Here’s the second book I read of his: The Double which also was the book Sylvia Plath did her dissertation on. If you missed my […]