Monkey

What a great book of adventures! Monkey reminded me of both, Don Quixote and Iliad. As it is a book of sequential little adventures where the gods are active characters in the story and interact with the people living on Earth. Except Monkey is much nicer to read than Don Quixote because, unlike Cervantes's novel, it is the right length, and at least in Arthur Waley's translation it is quite easy and plesant to read.

  I also enjoyed getting to know more about the life that Monkey led before his voyage with Tripitaka, as it made me appreciate more his evolution from stone to Buddha. This is a great translation of a great book. It kept me entretained from beggining to end. I definitely recommend it to anyone who is looking for a light and humorous read.

Slaughterhouse-Five

I do not really have much to say about this book. The structure of the ideas felt quite strange for the first parts of the book but it gradually became more interesting towards the end in terms of narrative style. Perhaps the quaint manner of telling the story was to convey the feelings of a mad man that became that way because of the horrible experiences that he had gone through during the war. It was an enjoyable read but I would not recommend it.