Doc Sweets on Joseph Conrad’s tale of the beastly evil inside the heart of errey hustla.
Previously: The Scarlet Letter
Category Archives: Literature
The horror author’s sage advice to his wayward younger self.
King was one of 75 contributors to the book Dear Me: A Letter To My Sixteen Year Old Self.
MORE: Dear Me: Letters by Luminaries to Their 16-Year-Old Selves (Brain Pickings)
The venerable Sparky breaks down Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 19th century romantic classic set in Salem Mass. where errrybody got tight assh*oles.
Previously: Moby Dick
Doubling as a promo for Google Maps, Saroo Brierley relates a synopsised version of his incredible story – the tale of a four year-old boy who fell asleep on a runaway train and spent the next 26 years trying to find his way home.
Brierley’s book A Long Way Home is set to be made into a feature film.
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Books re-titled as online clickbait, by Brendan Ternus.
A Grand Taxonomy Of Shakespearean Insults by Charley Chartwell.
Giant version here
Also available as an 18×24 print.
Doc Sweets on Herman Melville’s tale of the monomaniacal Ahab and his all-consuming quest to find the White Whale and straight-up OJ that bitch.
Previously: Animal Farm
Doc Sweets breaks down George Orwell’s dystopic allegory and the legit troofs it offers about all humanity.
Previously: Beowulf
Three designs for the cases of Penguin audiobooks by Indian illustrator Talha Nazim depicting Shakespeare, Twain and Wilde as if ready – headphone style – to whisper the text directly into the listener’s ears.
Doc Sweets addresses the classic Old English heroic epic of mead halls, skank-beasts and the baddest motherf***er in the whole world..
Previously: Thug Notes: Brave New World