Book Reviews
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doer
I read this book because I've written about my ideal in Cloudland
I don't believe in coincidences so I felt I was supposed to read this book when I saw it at Barnes and Noble
Coincidentally my Mom had already read it and said it was terrific but you have to get through it because it takes a while to intertwine the seperate storylines
The Payoff is so big at the end that it's worth the long slog.
The prose made me feel like I will never be a professional author. He's that good.
In the story Cloud Cuckoo Land is reference to a sort of utopia a fool believes in, and it's a funny story about the fool in pursuit of cloudland, but the main storyline is about how that text survives over time and how powerful stories can be to humanity.
4.75/5
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
This is the first book of a trilogy with the third book currently unreleased.
I found this book to be very interesting at parts.
It's a story of a man telling his life story. I like the parts of the book that take place during present time.
When he's telling his story. I liked the beginning and the end, but I was bored while he was at wizarding school. The University was surprisingly boring.
However, I think it was in a way deliberately boring. It was making the magic and the character more grounded.
Ultimately it picks up the pace at the end and I really liked how it ended.
I think I will buy the second book and read it.
Some of the writing is spectacular but I definitely got annoyed by the boring middle of the book so I will give it a 4/5.
4/5
1984
George Orwell
My favorite book
5/5
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
My favorite philosophical book