Beelzebub's library

Novel: Dystopia fiction, Political. Contains violence, adult situations, and disturbing imagery.  This review contains spoilers.  Down with Big Brother. I hardly know where to begin. 1984 is as emotionally crushing as it is sickeningly honest, and it is as crushing as an out of control freight train. The beginning was a bit of slog for me, but the middle picked up my interest, and the story being spoiled for me, the ending still took me by surprise. The story quickly robs you of all faith in a happy ending, it starts out cold hearted and grimy and ends in protruding contrast. Which isn’t to say that it ends happily, as the book says, happiness what everyone wants, and they are willing to sacrifice freedom for it. The book revolves around the character Winston Smith who lives in Oceania, a country which stretches from England to the bottom of South America. The book starts in the year 1984 of this alternate universe, in which the world is divided into three supe...

Novel: Horror, Comedy. Contains adult situations, violence, and disturbing imagery. This review contains spoilers.  When I was young, I lived in a small town in South Carolina. There was a library there, it was dusty and cramped, and had a weird smell. And when I and my siblings visited it, we didn’t really read that much. We preferred to play the games on the computers there. But one day, when I must have been eleven or twelve I entered the back room, the “adult” fiction, and I found a treasure trove of Stephen King books. I had already known about him, I don’t quite remember how I had first heard of him, but I had a very definitive idea of what he looked like. In my mind’s eye, he looked like a nonexistent author from a Scooby-doo cartoon, with slick black hair, thick glasses with a thick neck. As it turned out, he was a scrawny fellow with gray hair and a thin face. But I had been quite enthusiastic about writing, and my love of horror was blossoming at the time. So...