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A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
A Wild Sheep Chase is the third novel written by Haruki Murakami and is said to be the last of "The Rat Trilogy". The book, narrated in a first person point-of-view, is somewhat a detective story, which entirely revolves around the misadventures of a nameless main character. The novel began with the main character, who works in an advertising firm, divorcing his wife. However, months aft... [Read More]
The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
Some simply know him as the King of Horror, a household name in the genre of the dark and terrifying. Yet, Stephen King has become much more then that, he is now being compared to the likes of Charles Dickens, Mark Twain and other legends of great literature and rightfully so. He is one of the greatest writers of this generation and only time will tell his full impact upon the field of classic lit... [Read More]
Supernatural Fiction: Source of Fascination
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strangest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”, wrote H.P Lovecraft in his seminal work about the genre in his “Supernatural Horror in Literature”. The supernatural has long been a source of fascination for mankind and it is only recently that it has been accepted, however reluctantly as a serious lite... [Read More]
Science Fiction: The Future is Bright
As a literary genre science fiction is notoriously hard to pin down with just one definition. For the layman any short story or novel with spaceships and little green men on the cover is more than enough to classify it as science fiction. However to those who are familiar with the genre, these are conventions that have not been connected with science fiction as a whole since the 1950s. The field h... [Read More]