Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent". Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his 16-year-old ...
Great memoir. L have never read a Ballard book,but found this auto-biography very enjoyable.His narrative is simple and direct,yet it delivers with vigour and zest.This is really two books.T...
Portrait Of The Artist As A Wise Man. As fans of his music will testify, Leonard Cohen has a unique gift for translating emotion into words with art and sincerity. This book consists of vari...
It took Vonnegut more than 20 years to put his Dresden experiences into words. He explained, "there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, ...
On The Road, the most famous of Jack Kerouac's works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kero...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Hunter S. Thompson is by far THE most entertaining writer in modern literature, it has to be said. His engrossing affilliation with substances that he swore h...
Interesting concept, badly executed.... The overall concept is great but this book is ultimately very disappointing. I managed to read about 220 pages then gave up. A lot of the writing is j...
My first BEE novel. This is my first book by BEE and only casually picked it up in the bookshop.
Its a well written book, not for the faint hearted as it can be quite graphic indetail and s...
Meandering with bright points but short on ideas. This book meanders about. Majority of the book is 3 separate stories that link at the end - but the stories are mixed up so a challenge to t...
