Turn The Page: Spook Country by William Gibson

There is something that struck me about Gibson, reading this latest novel, and that was a quality of his prose that I had not noticed before. The scenes that he presents are like those slides of specimens that scientists use and it is as if he allows your eye to pierce through all the events [...]

Turn The Page: The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

This really is a beautifully written book — one of those that you read and are struck by the vivid colours in which everything is depicted. Some classics seem overly bound and anchored by the mores of the period in which they are written but the genius of this book is that it involves you [...]

Turn The Page: 6 Sick Hipsters by Rayo Casablanca

This was the perfect book for someone like me to read — damn, I got every reference in it. Is that something to be worried about? Well, it would be if I were one of the main characters in the book because that is what seemingly marks you out for death at the hands of [...]

Turn The Page: Timequake By Kurt Vonnegut

Vonnegut uses the perfect framing device for this novel wherein a timequake bumps everyone back in time ten years to run through that whole decade of their lives again. He starts off by leading us in by the nose with the notion that he wrote a really bad book called Timequake (named Timequake 1 in [...]

Turn The Page: The Gambler By Dostoevsky

The Gambler is the story of Alexei Ivanovich, a tutor in the household of The General and his family. This was paired with Notes From The Underground: both of them being fairly short novels and stylistically similar — both of them using the first person form of narrative.
I found the narrator, even given some of [...]

Turn The Page: New Chuck Palahniuk Novel Pygmy Announced

Taken From Chuck’s Official Site:

Posted March 20th, 2008 by Dennis
In emailing back and forth with Chuck earlier this week, I asked him what he’s been up to.  I might have been feeling him out for what he’s been working on a little.  But it wasn’t my primary intention.  [...]

Turn The Page: Notes From The Underground by Dostoevsky

I have been meaning for an age to read Dostoevsky and, having a literature degree, am slightly ashamed of myself that it has taken until now. I am of course reading a translation but I have to trust that it is a faithful rendition of the original Russian, just as I have trusted the work [...]