mittland's reviews
720 reviews

Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale by Herman Melville

Go to review page

5.0

this book helped me realize that everything we know is fake and unreal and made up and that made me a lot happier & now i don't fear big, old books written by dusty white guys
The Price of Salt, or Carol by Patricia Highsmith

Go to review page

5.0

there are no flaws in this book. it is literally perfect
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham

Go to review page

4.0

not to be vapid and egocentrical but somerset wrote this book just for me
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

Go to review page

3.0

ultimately just very repetitive
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Go to review page

4.0

a very light drama with amazing line after amazing line.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Go to review page

4.0

endlessly quotable
(too bad about the like crazy antisemitism. uncomfortable)
Howards End by E.M. Forster

Go to review page

5.0

what an absolutely astonishing book. the characters! the environment! mr forster just has such an insight into how and why people act the way they do. literally one of the best books i’ve ever read. he just knows.