,

Ehmbee Way

Goodreads Author


Born
Akron, Ohio
Website

Genre

Member Since
January 2023


As a fiction writer, Ehmbee Way centers on character-driven, upmarket literature with a psychological focus. More specifically, he tends to focus on distorted perceptions, mental health, cognitive dissonance and the search for purpose.

As a poet, he's fond of both traditional and contemporary styles. Through an emotional and often philosophical lens, his work often addresses--among other topics--death, spirituality, mind control, counterculture, love, purpose, regret, maturation, mental illness and the inescapable grasp of time.
...more

Average rating: 4.64 · 11 ratings · 8 reviews · 2 distinct works
Compunction

4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings3 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Esoterian: Ramblings of...

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating

* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.

Ehmbee’s Recent Updates

Ehmbee Way rated a book liked it
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
Rate this book
Clear rating
In The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, author Jonathan Haidt does a commendable job of presenting a fair and thorough examination of the psychology behind conservative, liberal and libertarian ideologies; what's ...more
Ehmbee Way rated a book really liked it
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
Rate this book
Clear rating
This collection from Tolstoy contains seven "short" stories--though at least two of them are more like novellas. I really wanted to give this book a five star review because I found five of the seven stories to be absolutely brilliant. The Raid and T ...more
Ehmbee Way finished reading
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
Rate this book
Clear rating
Ehmbee Way rated a book liked it
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Rate this book
Clear rating
I liked Van Pelt's prose and also her decision to sometimes let the reader into the octopus's head. It's an interesting dynamic--being privy to the internal musings of an octopus--however, his point of view only constitutes maybe, like, five percent ...more
Ehmbee Way rated a book liked it
The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride by Joe Siple
Rate this book
Clear rating
As a whole, I liked the story behind The Five Wishes of Mr. Murrary McBride. However—and I can’t believe I’m actually going to say this—I think this particular narrative would be better as a movie than as a book. There’s two reasons I say this. This ...more
Ehmbee Way rated a book it was amazing
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Rate this book
Clear rating
Even after 180 years since it was published, The Count of Monte Cristo may still be the greatest revenge story over told. Long? Sure but it never feels bloated or padded in any way. On the contrary, every scene and every character drips with importan ...more
Ehmbee Way rated a book really liked it
Spartina by John Casey
Rate this book
Clear rating
John Casey’s Spartina is a story about one man’s constant struggle to embrace the future while simultaneously holding onto his past. This universally recognized concept naturally draws the reader in quick. Meanwhile, the effortless-seeming flow of Ca ...more
Ehmbee Way rated a book liked it
The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism by Keiji Nishitani
Rate this book
Clear rating
I first heard about this book from the Philosophize This! podcast earlier this summer. The premise, as I understood it then, was that in the 1980’s, the prevailing thought in the west was that nihilism existed as a kind of sickness. And that the most ...more
Ehmbee Way rated a book it was ok
We Who Wrestle with God by Jordan B. Peterson
Rate this book
Clear rating
Many of Peterson's takes were interesting and certainly thought-provoking but, overall, I found it a little too pedantic for as lengthy of book as it is. In other words, as a non-scholastic, casual-minded reader, I found the text to be a little too f ...more
Ehmbee Way rated a book liked it
Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
Rate this book
Clear rating
While the argument that “no narrator should ever be considered reliable” isn’t necessarily new or poignant in the literary world, Victor Ward—Bret Easton Ellis’s protagonist in Glamorama—is such an extreme case of being unreliable that it makes the c ...more
More of Ehmbee's books…
No comments have been added yet.