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Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
4.0
this book was not what i expected.
i have never seen or read anything jurassic park related until i picked up this book, and im glad thats how i went into it.
i really expected violence and action after action and a nonstop pace, but that wasn’t it. the buildup was slow yet so rich with information that you wouldn’t want to stop reading. crichtons writing style is unique yet familiar all at once. and in the end, when it came to describing horrible, painful deaths, crichton achieved the same gut wrenching sense of disturbingness (that’s definitely not a word) that horror writers strive to have when describing paragraphs and paragraphs of gore and blood and horror— and crichton does it in a few sentences.
it’s the bluntness in telling this story that really sells it for me. all of it feels so real— like i could be reading something in the news. the bluntness in storytelling and the sheer stupidity found within misplaced perseverance that makes all these characters truly human.
it’s incredible. even as im writing this and analyzing what the story has brought to me i find that im loving it even more and more.
i have never seen or read anything jurassic park related until i picked up this book, and im glad thats how i went into it.
i really expected violence and action after action and a nonstop pace, but that wasn’t it. the buildup was slow yet so rich with information that you wouldn’t want to stop reading. crichtons writing style is unique yet familiar all at once. and in the end, when it came to describing horrible, painful deaths, crichton achieved the same gut wrenching sense of disturbingness (that’s definitely not a word) that horror writers strive to have when describing paragraphs and paragraphs of gore and blood and horror— and crichton does it in a few sentences.
it’s the bluntness in telling this story that really sells it for me. all of it feels so real— like i could be reading something in the news. the bluntness in storytelling and the sheer stupidity found within misplaced perseverance that makes all these characters truly human.
it’s incredible. even as im writing this and analyzing what the story has brought to me i find that im loving it even more and more.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
4.0
4.5
Bechdel has a way of analyzing things that is unparalleled to anything I've read before, and it's absolutely lovely. Those last few pages felt like a real punch to the gut.
Bechdel has a way of analyzing things that is unparalleled to anything I've read before, and it's absolutely lovely. Those last few pages felt like a real punch to the gut.