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Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl

Short summary of the book: Viktor E. Frankl describes his journey for the struggle of survival in an Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust as well as finding hope and greater meaning in our lives. I'm not doing any sort of review that explains the whole premise and plot etc; I'm just voicing my opinions. For this, I might as well add that there might be spoilers. There are over 10 pages that I bookmarked with quotes that I can carry through my life. This book did not teach me the actual meaning of life in the sense to find it, but in knowing that it exists. Through his autobiographical journey we are taken into the holocaust and his experiences in it. He was in a concentration camp in Auschwitz as well as doctoring those who fell ill and were dying. Through his experience I could really empathize with his feelings. In such unbearably dark times he found strength in spirit. I think just saying ‘strength in spirit’ is a bit weak to suffice how ...

The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

Short summary of the book: A shepherd goes on a journey to follow his dreams. This journey travels from Spain to Egypt, where he encounters loss, love, disappointment and hope. I'm not doing any sort of review that explains the whole premise and plot etc; I'm just voicing my opinions. For this, I might as well add that there might be spoilers. Beautiful. Absolutely, irrevocably and inexplicably beautiful. I will say this: I bought this book because it was on an online book store, and randomly at the top of the list as I was scrolling. I saw that it sold over 65 Million copies, and read the blurb. “What in the world is so beautiful about this book?” I asked myself, and when I saw that many celebrities and even politicians had read the book, I gave it a go. The book was delivered to my door, wrapped tidily. I thought it looked beautiful, and judging from the width, a short read. So I dove into it one sleepless night and I swear, I couldn’t put it down ever si...

26 Years

From left to right: Joo-Ahn, head of private security firm; Mi-Jin, sports shooter; Jin-Bae, gangster and Gap-Sae, businessman. Short summary of the movie: A sports shooter, gangster, cop, head of a private security firm and a businessman gather together to assassinate the orchestrator of the 1980 Gwangju massacre. All have their own motives to kill him. I'm not doing any sort of review that explains the whole premise and plot etc, I'm just voicing my opinions. For this, I might as well add that there might be spoilers . This movie broke me. It tore my heart out of my chest and pulled all the strings to torture me further. It was beautiful, immersive and tragic. I loved every bit of it and it yanked at my tear ducts. I was really emotionally wounded after this movie. I just felt like I should sit there and let everything that happened sink in. In the beginning, they constructed an animation of the massacre and what these five people traumatically had to go ...

Out – Natsuo Kirino

Short summary of the book: Four women (Masako, Yoshie, Yayoi and Kuniko) are involved in a murder case where Yayoi killed her husband and paid her following friends to dispose of him. A yakuza (A japanese gangster), Satake, is presumed by the police to be the murderer of the husband and seeks revenge. I'm not doing any sort of review that explains the whole premise and plot etc, I'm just voicing my opinions. For this, I might as well add that there might be spoilers. I don’t know where to begin with this one. It was a slow read, and by that I mean it took me a year to finish it because it was just not riveting enough for me. As thriller themed as it may be, the real thriller only came close to the climax. It was just not interesting enough to keep me reading, but the plot was overall okay. It seemed like she came up with an idea, and then branched out random storylines to attach it to. One character that I found pointless was Kazuo, a mixed Brazilian and Japan...

I Am Mother

Left to right: Stupid bitch #2, robot mom, Stupid bitch #1 who is the daughter of the robot Short summary of the movie: A girl raised by a robot mom meets a stranger for the first time, entrusts that stranger and battles against the mom to escape. The robot mom was designed to repopulate the earth. I'm not doing some sort of review that explains the whole premise and plot etc, I'm just voicing my opinion. For this, I might as well add that there might be spoilers . It had potential. Everything leading up to the “climax” was amazing. But good graphics does not a good movie make. In simpler terms, just because the movie LOOKS GOOD , doesn’t mean you can bullshit the plot to such a shitty extent that the great CG effects can mask. It was not masked. In the beginning, I liked the whole robot mother idea. It was original in ways that it didn’t give the robot an automated voice, and the movie did the robot justice in the beginning stages. I grew fond of the relationship...

Because This is My First Life

Left to Right: JiHo and SeHee (couple), SooJi and SangGoo (couple), HoRang and WonSeok (couple) Short summary of the series: Three Couples go on journeys to experience marriage and/or love in the most odd ways. One couple has a contractual marriage, the other believing in independence, the other having conflict on different views of marriage. I'm not doing any sort of review that explains the whole premise and plot etc, I'm just voicing my opinions. For this, I might as well add that there might be spoilers . This series gave me a better judgement on marriage. In retrospect I only personally simplified marriage regardless of how others thought traditionally (with no disrespect to traditional marriages) but, I thought that there were only two distinct marriages; traditional and those that are uncommonly different. It’s my fault for not being educated and aware of the different marriages there are and could be. In the series, it taught the different ways peopl...