classic literature

Considering Winnie the Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne

September 20, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo Review 23: Roaring 20s I didn’t feel like a lot of drama right now; calm reading is good right now for me. So what to do for this square? Like a lot of people, I suspect, I know who-what Winnie-the-Pooh is, but I can’t remember ever having read any of the original stories, the first volume of which came out in 1926. I feel like I must have, but upon picking up that first volume of stories, Winnie-the-Pooh, they weren’t too familiar seeming; unless […]

Victor Frankenstein asks Reddit: AITA?

Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

May 23, 2020 by KimMiE" 15 Comments

r/AmItheAsshole * Posted by u/doomedbyfate 1 hour ago AITA for bringing a creature to life and then abandoning him, resulting in him vowing revenge and murdering a bunch of people? I (20ish M) grew up in Geneva. My mother died when I was young, and her greatest wish was for me to marry Elizabeth, my adopted “cousin.” When I went off to college to study sciences, I discovered the secret to bestowing life. I can’t tell you how I did it, and when you read […]

A Most Impressively God-Awful Read

Dune by Frank Herbert

May 31, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I’m really torn as to whether Dune is truly terrible because it did not age well, or because it’s just bad. I don’t even see how it was as revolutionary as it’s reputed. This may be the worst thing I’ve read in a very long time, and it’s so bad, it’s actually kind of impressive. Most of the novel is characters standing around thinking “deep” thoughts or sometimes voicing said thoughts. Many have virtually no context and seem meant to be ever so meaningful and […]

The Saddest Bug in the World

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

January 31, 2019 by Ale 2 Comments

I read The Metamorphosis under great duress during both high school and undergrad. I remember despising it both times, and only reading enough to get through class discussion. But my mentor is teaching it this semester, and I’ve had no choice but to revisit it. It’s amazing how much perspective a decade and a half can give. I loved this novella, and aside from general immaturity and lack of language skills, I don’t know why I was so vehemently against this story in the past. Gregor the […]

look this white guy read Macbeth once and it’s really important that you should know that even if you don’t even open his stupid book.

June 7, 2018 by tillie 3 Comments

Oh dear. I’m not going to say that I hate this masterpiece of a classic. It’s more like a stockholm syndrome thing where, by the time you get to the end of it you’ve pieced the bits together, but you’re kinda too exhausted to care. The title is from Macbeth, because of course it is. “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an […]

473 pages = overly wordy review

February 3, 2018 by Bothari43 Leave a Comment

I have found some fun stuff while being a volunteer shelver at my library. The Moonstone was on the cart to put back, but after reading the blurb that said it was one of the first mysteries (written in 1868), I had to check it out myself. The first hurdle is the entire setup of the story. We’re supposed to root for the protagonists simply because they’re the protagonists, but if it weren’t for a heaping helping of racism, none of it would have happened. […]

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