Book Review: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
On Writing is part Stephen King memoir, part instruction manual on how to write.
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On Writing is part Stephen King memoir, part instruction manual on how to write.
The Color Purple by Alice Walker isn’t always easy to read, not because of Celie’s nomenclature (“You better not never tell nobody but God”), but because of the pain and violence that comes with the experiences she relates. After all, being a woman of color in the deep American south, while being brought up by a “father” who repeatedly rapes her, isn’t the most easiest of circumstances.
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World presents to its readers an ultimate human utopia: where efficiency has made human breeding easy and controllable, where sterilization has removed all fear of disease, where old age is a thing of the past.