My love of literature and the pursuance of striving for the best in life yet simultaneously knowing that pursuance could lead to my demise, is something that will always be stitched to me via the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald’s beautiful language is a lens of focus that reveals not…
Category: Books
Castle Rock is Retro?
I would say, yes! Pulling from all of the characters from Stephen Kings previous works of art, Castle Rock reigns supreme in creepiness and artistic styling. I also love that the audience is kind of in on the joke yet at the same times can’t predict where the story will go next. For instance, when…
1984
“Big Brother is watching you.” With the President’s emergency alert going out last week, I felt it was appropriate to look at the novel 1984. As Orwell wrote this novel in the 1940s, during and after the World War II, he warned of thought police and screens that watch and communicate to people. I had…
Catcher in the Rye
I remember reading this during my early high school years and I have read this during those times of frustration that seem to be coming more and more lately in regards to the world that we live in. Holden, the main character, leaves his school and goes to New York City to avoid talking to…
Retro Pop 