Юлия Петрова

The novel describes the American society of the future, in which books are prohibited, since books are not only a source of knowledge, but also a lever of thought. ⠀ The government of the future does not need educated and thinking citizens. ⠀ Scientists, philosophers, lawyers, historians are not needed. ⠀ The government of the future needs uneducated slaves to work in factories. ⠀ Give them silly TV shows and some money. Let it shut up. People who read or distribute books are equated with extremists and enemies of the state. ⠀ A special squad will burn any books they find. ⠀ Guy Montag is a member of such a squad...

There was a brutal murder of a child in the small town of Flynn City, Oklahoma. Most of the evidence points to the involvement of the local children's baseball league coach, Terry Maitland. ⠀ Witnesses saw him put the boy in the van, saw him walking around the city in bloody clothes. ⠀ His fingerprints and DNA were found at the crime scene. ⠀ Terry is a respectable person and a good family man who does not at all look like a murderer with a sadistic inclinations - any resident of Flynn City will say that. ⠀ However, he is arrested. However, Maitland has an irrefutable alibi. ⠀ At the time of the murder, he was in another city...

Bat is a detective novel by the Norwegian writer Yu Nesbø, the first in a series about detective Harry Hall. Young Norwegian TV star Inger Holter was brutally murdered in Sydney. ⠀ Investigator Harry Hole is dispatched by Oslo police to help their Australian counterparts. ⠀ Together with the Australian police, he will have to go down to the city bottom, which seems to be inhabited not only by drug addicts and pimps, but also by terrible creatures from ancient aboriginal legends. The first acquaintance with the author was not very successful. I do not share the general enthusiasm. A lot of everything...

You expect the whole book to be a detective story, and only at the end you realize how deep a drama it is. ⠀ A dark, melancholic psychological thriller in which all the characters are immersed in their traumatic memories. The story is told from the perspective of three characters. ⠀ All of them are quite interesting and complex characters. And I was able to feel compassion for everyone. Policeman Peter. ⠀ Obsessed with a fear of attachment, he is incapable of any serious action. ⠀ Indecision and fear of change eventually cornered him. How many more years will he waste before he pulls himself together? ⠀ Conclusion: do or do not...

Last New Year's holidays, my colleague (also a bibliophile) asked me what book I would like as a gift. ⠀ I was then overcome by a terrible blues and I said that I wanted to meet such an author, whose books would look like paintings by Joseph Beuys, Past Paladino or Hyper-Pupper. ⠀ In one word, I wanted to read something that would make me go crazy. ⠀ "Not a word more!" he exclaimed. That's how I got two books by Vladimir Sorokin. ⠀ Be afraid of your desires - they tend to come true. Looking at the annotations, I really went crazy and put both bricks on the far shelves, believing that my inner world was not ready for this yet...

I must say right away that the collection is excellent. It is completely dedicated to the New Year and Christmas. These horror stories are written by adults for adults. For those who still believe that Olivier is the best salad for the New Year. For those who remember how his mother took him to kindergarten on a sled in the bitter frost, and meanwhile he fiddled with mittens with an elastic band. For those who once upon a time decorated a living tree with glass toys in the form of a cucumber, lemon or an astronaut. For those who were waiting for Santa Claus, even if he looked very much like his father in disguise...

The story of the most ordinary guy named Richard. ⠀ He lives in a tiny apartment, works as an office employee, he has no friends, no hobbies either, except for the forced collecting of figures of trolls with colored hair. ⠀ And, well, he also meets with a cute girl, while he himself does not understand what she found in him. ⠀ Richard has long planned his life: he will marry, have a couple of children, move to live out of town, and possibly get a raise. ⠀ Stable until nausea. And he would have lived like this on his measured life if one evening he walked past the wounded girl. However, Richard did not pass by...