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George Orwell

Big Brother is watching. This book changed how I think about language, power, and truth.

Bram Stoker

Lucy's transformation is genuinely disturbing. Stoker understood that the scariest monsters are the ones we loved.

Daniel Kahneman

Fascinating research but the book is about 100 pages too long. Gets repetitive in the middle.

Herman Melville

A book about everything disguised as a book about whaling. Melville packed the entire human condition in here.

George R. R. Martin

Martin split the book geographically and it shows. Where are Tyrion, Dany, and Jon? I missed them dearly.

Mary Shelley

The framing device (letters within a story within a story) is clunky but the core narrative is powerful.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beautifully written but I found it hard to care about any of the characters. Maybe that's the point.

Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Bronte poured her soul into this. You can feel the autobiographical pain and triumph.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Parts of it are hilarious, other parts are a slog. Worth the effort overall.