Literature of Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction

  Blogs 87 points + Attendance points 13 (missed 2 classes) = 100 points

  A story about war, time travel and aliens? Everything is possible in Kurt Vonnegut’s works. The non-linear storytelling in a form of time travelling or most likely flashbacks adds chaos to the story as the reader does not know where and when they will be thrown on the next page. The way the protagonist Billy Pilgrim thinks and perceives the world around him illustrates the effects of war trauma on an individual. It is hard to write or read about war but Vonnegut had a different approach to this destruction. The protagonist refers to death the same way as the aliens with a phrase “so it goes”, without any emotions as they know time is relevant and they always live in different periods of time, and they always die as Billy Pilgrim always dies on February 13 in 1976. We are going through his memories, we are living with him all the moments of his life in no particular order but only Billy has to suffer over and over again. Having friends that just came from war now it makes me under...

  The Clockwork Orange was an interesting read. This was the first book from this semester I decided to read in russian without knowing that there are russian words in the original work which were written in latin letters to keep the originality of the author. This anglo-russian slang the characters use gives the story a unique look and completes its mood. However, it was very hard to understand what exactly the words meant because of the horrible spelling that I switched to listening to the audiobook from halfway through the book.  The story is pretty violent but at the same time very realistic. Mostly because of the amount of detail the protagonist gives while describing every single scene and character. The author makes the reader face the reality not letting them close their eyes on the dark sides of it. Alex is a complicated and interesting character. What surprised me the most about him was his love towards classical music juxtaposed with his cruel lifestyle. It seems li...