Book reviews from a medical student trying to become a better reader. Dedicated to my late grandfather.
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“Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures…hover around a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?” Chapter 39 Great Expectations is a novel about the story of a young man, Pip, whose personal experiences and encounters in his youth inspired him to become a sophisticated, educated gentleman. Little does he know, his “great expectations” from […]
15.4.2024 00:37Great Expectations – Charles Dickens (1861)“It would have required, that is, a more exacting set of generalizations to be more exactingly applied. It’s always easier to just ban the breed.” Part Three – Troublemakers What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (WTDS) is a collection of selected articles that were published in the New York Times magazine by Malcolm Gladwell […]
17.3.2024 19:17What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures – Malcolm Gladwell (2009)“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed…Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.” Frankenstein, Volume II Chapter 2 Frankenstein is a short gothic horror novel about a young scientist, Victor Frankenstein, trying to create life with science and yield […]
2.3.2024 06:53Frankenstein – Mary Shelley (1818)“So let a prince win and maintain a state, the means will always be judged honorable, and will be praised by every one” Chapter XVIII, The Prince The Prince is a brief “pamphlet-like” book/treatise going over the things that Machiavelli thought would be beneficial for a monarch to know, ranging anywhere from discussion about the […]
26.2.2024 09:02The Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli (1513)