William Styron - Confessions of Nat Turner

Pros: A free flowing, nonjudgemental work, and an American Classic.

Cons: Like many writers, Styron sometimes dwells on descriptions of the mundane.

The Bottom Line: This fictional historical book is worth more than a read, due to it's engaging characterization and winning prose. You won't be disappointed, if you have a thinking critical mind.

Review: In the movie Gladiator, Russell Crowe plays a fictional general that became a slave. While the movie is gorgeously filmed and finely acted by Phoenix and Crowe, it's completely fantastical ending ruined it for many historical buffs. Because of that...

Pros: Important message presented with a historical significant event

Cons: Historically inaccurate presentation, dangerous assumptions made by author

Review: Why is a novel that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1967 on my "Hate" list? Author Styron has no question about the important presence his novel has; he states that he is giving readers a fictional presentation of the actual history surrounding...