by Aseem Gupta | Nov 30, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Mario Puzo’s Six Graves to Munich looks at first like one of the simplest stories a thriller can tell. A man has survived torture, betrayal, and an attempted execution. Ten years later, he has found the people responsible, and he intends to kill them one by one. Yet...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 25, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner looks, at first, like a simple supernatural ballad. An old sailor stops a man on his way to a wedding, tells him about a disastrous voyage, confesses that he killed an albatross, describes the terrible...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 20, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Bo Burnham’s Egghead: Or, You Can’t Survive on Ideas Alone is easy to misdescribe. Calling it a poetry collection makes it sound more solemn and orderly than it is; calling it a comedy book makes it sound less formally inventive; calling it a collection of jokes...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 15, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham’s The Brethren begins with an almost comic idea: three disgraced former judges, serving federal sentences in a minimum-security prison, create their own unofficial court and spend their days settling disputes among fellow inmates. Their judicial...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 10, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham’s The Testament, originally published in 1999, begins with the ingredients of a classic legal thriller: an eccentric billionaire, a disputed inheritance, a carefully engineered will, and a family of prospective heirs already spending money they have not...
