American Psycho
★★☆☆☆
Patrick Bateman is the archetypal yuppie. Rich, handsome, charming, excellent taste in music, art, food and all things fine. He is also a psychopathic killer.
Memory Man
★☆☆☆☆
Muscle-man ex-cop who is down and under is caught up in an investigation of a series of crimes which seem to involve him specifically and directly...
Jurassic Park
★★★★★
Revolutionary new techniques in genetic engineering allow scientists to bring back long-dead animals. They choose to use the technology to make the most amazing theme park ever envisioned... until something goes wrong.
A Time To Kill
★★★★★
A riveting court-room drama and a compelling tale of retribution and justicea in small town Mississippi, where both the crime and the fallout are highly racially charged...
The Killing Floor
★★★★☆
Jack Reacher. Ex-Military Police, current drifter, is passing through a small town when he is suddenly arrested for a murder he knows nothing about. He expects the case of mistaken identity to be quickly resolved, but soon finds out that he is connected to the case... very intimately.
Rosemary's Baby
★★★★★
Dark and twisted horror novel with a slow build-up of a sense of unease, with both the reader and the protagonist asking themselves, "Is there something ominous, or are we reading too much into nothing?"
Shutter Island
★★★★★
Fear, obsession, paranoia... this book is the stuff nightmares are made of. It is noir psychological suspense at its finest.
It
★★★★★
Arguably the best work by Stephen King. Seven teenagers first stumble upon the horror one summer, and now they are grown-ups who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name...
The Water Knife
★★★★☆
Paolo's second ecological dystopian (cli-fi?) novel sets the action in the arid American south west, where water is the most precious commodity.
Sharp Objects
★★★☆☆
Disturbing story. Disturbing characters. This book will make you feel uncomfortable, that's what Gillian Flynn does best!
