Someone please call the experts and ask them to explain what makes Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera such a popular and well-known classic, because the greatness of the novel is lost on me. While the writing is poetic and the topic of love is boundlessly explored, I found the characters revolting […]
Hauntingly beautiful and delightfully spooky, Ghost Stories is a curated collection of classic short stories filled with spectres and nightmarish visitations. Though the subject matter is ethereal and intangible, Ghost Stories is leaves a substantial impression. Editors Lisa Morton and Leslie Klinger selected time-honored tales of the dead visiting the world of the living and […]
I never saw the Lord of the Rings movies when I was growing up. I wasn’t allowed to watch them or read the books either. My parents (fundamental Christians) saw all fictional magic as evil. The Bible says that witches, magic, and sorcery are evil, therefore, my parents felt that magic should not be a […]
I feel funny about reviewing classic literature. For one thing, it’s a classic, meaning a consensus has already been reached by “the collective, inimitable them” (Elizabethtown, 2005) that it is indeed a good book. My affirmation of its greatness is not necessary, and my denial of it would be meaningless. For another thing, seeing as […]