Fiction Book Reviews Samples For Students

Book Report on “The Maltese Falcon”

Book Report on “The Maltese Falcon” is a crime novel book that was written first in 1930 by the author Dashiell Hammet. The book belongs to the genre of crime fiction or mystery novel. At the time this was called “hard boiled” crime fiction and it was a very popular type of book. The story centers around the character Sam Spade, who is the protagonist of the book. Sam Spade along with another detective, Miles Archer, is hired by to follow a man named Floyd Thursdby. At first it is just a case of Thursby running off with the man who ...

Bainbridge, B. (1991). The Birthday Boys. London: Hachette UK.
“The Birthday Boys” is an acclaimed piece of literary work by Beryl Bainbridge. This novel was published in the year 1991and presents an imaginary tale of South Pole mission by captain Robert Falcon Scott. This story describes the emotional aspect of human endurance and misguided audacity in a very realistic manner. This paper intends to discuss the novel with a focuses on courage as central them of the story.
Beryl Bainbridge is an English author who is named as one of the greatest authors of the United Kingdom. The author ...

Introduction

Hamza Bogary’s book, ‘The Sheltered Quarter: A Tale of a Boyhood in Mecca’ is a narration about the past life of a character that has irreversibly disappeared. The author describes the life in Mecca prior to the advent of oil. The book is based on Mecca’s observations in Mecca and he uses art to express this part of his knowledge. He has managed to successfully bring out his knowledge into art through humor, empathy and his understanding about human nature. This makes his piece of work not only entertaining but also informative. The narrator, Muhaisin, has to deal with various ...

Introduction

Science fiction in the modern world plays a crucial role in providing imaginative contents of the things that human beings should expect at some point in time. This genre explores the likely effects and consequences of the innovations that are scientifically based. This genre is used by people to address current trends in the world and warn them of the possible effects that may be brought by the trends in the late life. The setting of such content is based in futuristic events and addresses issues such as the development of science and technology and the most likely scenarios that ...

Marquez does not embrace the clear-cut way of narration. There is a rough sketch of happenings between the time of founding the town, time of collapse; the Buendia’s clan genesis and its destructions. Marquez keeps on moving forth and backward and does not come clear on time. He thus creates a sense of informality and mythic feeling of a history. Though in the very first episode he talks of the Macondo gypsies who bore the technological innovations that were miraculous to the people of this isolated village, it is still had to believe it for in the first statement he puts ...

Introduction

Journalism is a field that can have many faces. One may even go as far as saying that this industry is the best one when it comes to making perfect disguise. Throughout history, it can be attested that journalism and political science has been merged, perhaps subconsciously by the people working in these fields. In modern day politics, for example, a stage where democracy appears to be the dominant player, as evidenced by the fact that the number of counties that are based on a democratic and liberal type of government is far larger than those that are based on monarchy and ...

We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (Phillip K. Dick) – Air Raid (John Varley).
‘We Can Remember It for You Wholesale’ is a futuristic short story written by Phillip K. Dick, centered on the concept of memory manipulation. It takes on the undiscovered fields of new age science. The concepts involved in the short story are so complex and underdeveloped even in this age and time. But still the author immaculately and ostentatiously nails his narrative. In the same sense, ‘Air Raid’ written by John Varley, seems to be the perfect match for the pairing. Both these short stories ...

1. Why does Quail want to go to Mars?
The unknown world of another planet attracted him very much. Douglass was obsessed with the idea of trudging among its valleys again because he had already visited the planet as a secret Interplan agent.
2. Why does Quali’s wife always try to discourage his interest in Mars?
Douglas himself stated that it was a wife’s job to bring him down to Earth. In fact, Kirsten knew about his previous trip to Mars.
3. How does REKAL, INC. provide trips to Mars?
They incorporate extra-factual memory implant and provide ...

- Analysis of the Author The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War is a historical fiction piece of writing by Michael Shaara, an American Born Italian immigrant, who has received Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for this book in 1975. The book is based upon the battle of Gettysburg of American Civil War in 1863. It describes the events that took place during the war from the perspectives of troop leaders of both Confederacy and Union; how they have made their planning, took decisions and then implemented them during the war. Michael was able to understand all those ...

Edmund Morris is best renowned as a biographies’ writer; especially for writing the biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, the United States’ Presidents. He acquired his early tutoring in Kenya. Afterwards, he went to South Africa to attend the Rhodes University. Later, he moved to London and became an advertising copywriter. In 1968, he migrated to the USA. "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt” is a classic non-fiction historical account of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris and stands out as one of the best biographies of the contemporary times. In 1980, the mentioned biography won the Pulitzer Prize and was also ...

“I Want to be a Veterinarian” by Michaela Muntean

- Is the story age/developmentally appropriate? Yes How and Why? Preschool, teaches about careers
- Is the subject matter interesting to children? Yes Is the content well written? Yes
- Do the text and illustrations work together? Yes, a: Is the language suitable for children? Yes b: Are the illustrations good quality? yes
- Is the information accurate? Yes, information is accurate but could be more through
- Are characters depicted positively? Yes a; Free from bias? yes
- Relates to learning areas? Yes, Learning Area: learning about a career, Yes, the area of science could ...

Introduction

Around the World in Eighty Days is fantastic read written by Jules Verne. The book is a vivid description of a perfect Englishman who bets a wager to travel around the world in eighty days (Verne Ch. 1). The journey peels off the hardened layer of the aloof English man who shows very little emotions and he evolves into an emotional, adventurous man who cares for his friends and is also very resourceful in challenging situations. The story fascinates the reader for the love, adventure, friendship, and culture that oozes from cover to cover. Even through the hasty detail of events, the ...

Book Review of the True Story of ah q

Book Review of the True Story of Ah q
Introduction and book analysis
The novel, a true story of Ah Q, by Lu Xun was first published in 1921. However, this book’s content has a lot to be desired about the time it was set, the twentieth century. Precisely, the author takes the reader through the life experiences of Ah Q, a peasant, spiritual and ambitious man, who lacks regard for the authority. Lu Xun was born on the 25th of September 1881 (Xun, 2009). He exhibited a great passion for writing over the years and maintained a ...

Introduction

The things they carried was published in 1990 and is regarded as an outstanding fictional work that is based on a platoon of American soldiers who participated in the Vietnam war and how they are fought boredom and trauma of combat throughout the Vietnam War. While it seems it is based on the experiences of O’Briens, the cover page recognizes the book as a work of fiction. In one of the short stories, Good Form, the narrator draws a clear cut distinction between the happening truth and the story truth. The author, O’Brien, has a feeling that, creating a story that is ...

Isaac’s storm: A man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history

Book Review
Introduction
About The Book And Author:
The fiction based history book of Isaac’s storm is written by Erik Larson. The author has outlined the details of the biggest hurricane of American History. The book is about a proud nation of Galveston and also about a meteorologist- Isaac Cline, who overlooked the symptoms of a hurricane due to their life’s success and festivities. Nature proved them completely wrong (Lohmann, 2008). The novel is written by Columbia University journalist and non-fiction author, with a work history with ‘The Wall Street Journal’, ‘Time Magazine’ and several other publications, ...

Cold blood is one of the best classical non-fiction books and was written by Truman Capote in the year 1966.This author is one of the best in screen writing. Many of his short stories, plays and nonfiction have for years been recognized like novella breakfast at Tiffany’s. In that era the American justice and legal system was heavily biased and only few writers were ready to criticize these acts. In this book, Capote goes into details about the murder of Hubert clutter who was a farmer from Holcomb and also how his two of the four children and wife ...

Purpose

This debut novel of Makiia Lucier fills up the Young-adult/Juvenile/Historic fiction genre with its historically appropriate and emotionally driven recollections. From its apprehensive start to the contemplative close, A Death-Struck Year captures the readers’ imagination and attention. Despite the grisly descriptions about Spanish Influenza, and sadness accompanied by several characters dying in the novel, the readers can find a sense of hope and comfort in the lead character Cleo’s relationships with the staff at Red Cross. She develops a romantic relationship with Doctor Edmund Parrish, a wounded army doctor. Despite their growing romance, the author has not made it the core ...

Little tree is the narrator in the book. This is evident due to the fact that the narration is in the first persons. Through the narration of the author, two main themes are evident which are life and culture. Little tree is a name that describes a five year old boy who as a result of his parent’s death is raised by his grandparents. The setting of the area from where the boy is raised is mountainous.

The book depicts little tree as an exciting child who is willing to learn all he can from his grandparents. Little tree does not ...

Faith Mcnulty was the author of the book, The Burning Bed. The Burning bed was a non-fiction book that tackled family problems and at some point, the possible consequences of an unresolved husband and wife conflicts. This book later on was adapted to a film. The film won several awards and nominations because of the boldness of the story which revolves around the story of Francine, a battered wife.

The Burning Bed is a non-fiction book which represented the life of Francine Hughes. She was basically subjected to a great deal of violence from her husband. It was a book that staged how human rights ...

Book Review - Persepolis

In the graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, the reader follows the author through an autobiographical look at her own life, though interestingly, this is done through the use of the comic book format. Growing up in Iran, Satrapi had to remain innocent and dignified, despite the horrors that were happening around her. Due to the enigmatic, strange, quirky and often outrageous directions her life had taken her, Satrapi decided to use the comic book format in order to tell her childhood story. This lent it a heightened, visually intriguing spin that turned the horrific and out-of-control world of her ...

The main idea in the book “Pray for Sheetrock” by Melissa Fay Greene is the racial and social movement. In her nonfiction work, Green elaborates the issues that faced McIntosh, a small town in Gorgias. For a long time, the town was ruled by a white sheriff who seemed to care very little about the skin color (Greene 3). However, he used his political tactics to rule the town like a monarchy. No black was allowed in any political position. The people of the McIntosh town accepted the status quo of racial discrimination and segregation. The blacks had no ...

Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K’ang-Hsi

China has a lot of history that many illustrious and prolific historians like Jonathan Spence have tried to explain in their books. Jonathan Spence is the author behind the fiction named the Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K’ang-Hsi. This is a very exciting fiction was written in the year of 1974. Jonathan has used the letters and historical records that K’ang Hsi had written in describing the later years of K’ang-Hsi, who is considered the great leader of that time. The book has been divided into chapters. ‘In Motion’ is the first chapter; this chapter depicts ...

“The Orphan Master’s Son” is by Adam Johnson. It centers on the idea of identity, how it is defined, and who gets to define it for someone. The novel examines the Orwellian life in the Republic of Korea and the influence of media on the setting, especially the western media. Themes of loss and love, incarceration, and freedom, propaganda, lies and truth, North Korean State power and technological surveillance are also covered. It follows the life of Jun Do, an orphan, who surrenders to the oppression from the government of North Korea which is cruel and impetuous. Jun ...

The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America is a book by Upton Sinclair. It is a historical fiction that elaborates the story of American inventor and industrialist Henry Ford and his company's interaction with a fictitious character Abner Shutt and his family. Abner and a majority of his children end up working for Ford in different capacities (Sinclair, 1937).
The book is set against the backdrop of a fast-industrializing America in the early 19th century at a time when labor rights were not as expansive as they are at the moment. It follows the story of the growth of ...

Book Review of the True Story of Ah Q

Introduction
The book “The True Story of Ah-q” is a historical fictional literature that was written by the author Lu Xun, who expresses that he never anticipated he would be the person to put in writing the narrative of such an “immortal man.” He expresses his passion for writing the book saying that it had concerned him for a while. Perhaps, he could call it a biography, but the author wondered the kind of biography that was expected of him to write with regards to this story. He was neither Ah-Q nor was he related to him by birth. ...

The novel “Daughter of Time” written by Josephine Tey and published by ‘Simon and Schuster’ is one of the most interesting literary works well-disguised as a novel. The classic, published in the year 1951 for the first time dates back to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and gives an account of Richard III . The story has a fascinating plot with likeable characters. The most interesting part of the book is the way Tey presents history in the form of a mystery. She portrays history as a science, which involves a constant effort to analyze and learn from the truth rather a mere recitation of names, ...

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Robinson Crusoe

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The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe (1660 – 1731)
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Social and Diversity Issues

including Logical Human Reactions to Incentives and Penalties
with Examples from the Book and Personal Examples
CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. THE STORY
3. THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS NOVEL IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
4. THE AUTHOR, DANIEL DEFOE (1660 - 1731)
5. THE IMPORTANT COMPONENTS OF THE NOVEL
- The Title
- The Plot
- The Narrator, Robinson Crusoe
- The Use of Imagery
- The Setting
- The ...

The novel "Guilty Pleasures" by Laurell K. Hamilton, is the first book in a series about a female vampire hunter named Anita Blake. Anita is an animator, a term used to refer to someone with the powers of necromancy, or the ability to bring the dead back to life. She raises the dead as a profession and is usually paid by a family who want to gain closure with dead relatives, although Anita is sometimes also hired by the police and government agencies to raise the dead in order to solve crimes or handle sticky legal issues. Through her job as an animator she ...

The Pulitzer and Nation Book Critics Circle Award winning book, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is not an easy read. Although a fictional novel, it is based upon history and set in New Jersey where the author, Junot Diaz grew up. It is not just the story of Oscar de Leon, referred to as Oscan Wao, a “Getto Nerd” in search of his personal Grail for a “pure and unadulterated love;” it spans three generations and two cultures. It calls up Dominican-American history in a way that can be stark, brutal, lush, tragic and comedic. It refers back to the “fuku ...

Michael Crichton has left an immortal mark on the minds of innumerable readers who have been left in an awe of the content and panache of his literary works which have proved to be among the most famous and influential works of art in the past century. Lost World, The Andromela Strain and Timeline have been extremely popular and genre defining novels. Jurassic Park (1990) is one of the best works penned by the stalwart author and goes on to produce a perfect mesh of theoretical scientific findings and technical advancements. The author caters the gazillion readers with a quintessential mystery ...

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- Totalitarian movements are mass organizations of atomized, isolated individuals. (Chapter 10)
- It was recognized early and has frequently been asserted that in totalitarian countries propaganda and terror present two sides of the same coin (Chapter 11)
- Totalitarian propaganda raised ideological scientificality and its technique of making statements in the form of predictions to a height of efficiency of method and absurdity of content because, demagogically speaking, there is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future can ...

Book review The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

The Prince is a unique book which is not easy to categorize, even though it is a non-fiction book. One can try to define it as a historic book, especially for the contemporary reader, but at its time of publication it was more a kind of manual, a manual for leaders whom Machiavelli calls ‘Princes’ (Machiavelli, 2003, p.50), on how to behave when it comes to power. Because of this, the book is still negatively labeled and seen as a “dictator’s handbook” (Dove, 2011) and the author seen as a “synonym for intrigues of unsavory nature” (Goodwin, 2003 p.7).
However, the book is intended ...

Stephanie Meyer's novel The Host presents incredibly original ideas in a way that is fairly palatable to young audiences. This tale of identity crises and mixed memories, all in the wake of an alien invasion, provides an interesting setting for this science-fiction love story. The protagonist's struggle for understanding and control of the very body it lives in carries many unique scenarios that are presented in a sometimes fascinating way. This paper will overview many different aspects of the first part of The Host, including setting, character and conflict.

The first setting the book takes place in is a facility where the ...

To Kill a Mocking Bird is a novel that deals with serious issues of racial inequality and rape in the American society in 1930s. These are contemporary issues that affected the country during the time in which the book was written. The novel is written by Lee Harper and was published in the year 1960. The major issues of the novel involve destruction of people’s innocence and racial injustice (Johnson, 1994). This target audience of this book was the majority whites. Reading this book would make them realize the pains the African Americans went through. The novel became a ...