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I personally think that even the most good, morally driven person can be pushed into commiting acts against his/her convictions. There's an obvious dark side to our character, anger for one is the...

Mario Vargas Llosa.

Ethics:The Essential Writings by Gordon Marino

Basically, a compilation of essays on ethics and morality ranging from Plato, Kant, Schopenhauer to Waltzer... Picked it up and was absorbed by it....

I think you're depicting death as this poetic part of nature that harmonizes with the cycle of life and that we as humans should accept it quietly. The thing about it is that most people don't live...

This has been bugging me a lot lately. Hopefully someone from the boards can heed me advice.

There's this relatively big problem going around in my family concerning my grandma especifically....

True, a person already dead doesn't feel anything. But a person in the process of getting killed or knows that death is surely near would most likely feel tremendous, either physical or mental, pain....

Bukowski has a number of books. Factotum fits the description best.

The Ice Man, Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer by Phlip Carlo

Carlo writes some gruesome details of death and violence in the life of real life contract killer Richard Kuklinski. Made me...

It was a great read from start to finish

Just bought The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Even though I know Coelho is very acclaimed, I've never read anything from him.

well the other day my friend invited me to an art gallery and there was an artist whose main presentation was a giant plastic squid lying on the floor covered in a pool of black liquid. And in the...

there's probably even more snobbery in the art culture tbh, more specifically in the abstract genre.

great book. the missing chapter adds a touch of mystery to the whole feel of the book

Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is a solid choice 4 me. She was, in a way, a man inside a woman's body... Abandoning her spouse n child to run away with her lover, obstinate, overtly jealous, and...

Basically, like you said, it's too simplistic..The other reason I can't understand is the fascination the book holds on some people..That whole John lennon fiasco n countless others..A recent book I...

Great novel. Tolstoy was a master at crafting characters right down to the bone..He was so good, at one point in the novel, I was like,"Yo, Why is Anna such a *****?!"

In regards to the thread, I...

I never really understood the hype surrounding this book, I always thought it was pretty average imo. TO each his own though..I just don't think Catcher in The Rye should be part of any high...

I actually read the introduction and foreword after reading the book for fear of spoilers.

^ I dig Hopkins's paintings. I'd buy one.

How old was James Franco when he created those pieces? Really awful. You could cross off painter from his Renaissance profile.

Old man and the sea

That was a brilliant, cutesy scene by Tolstoy...made me feel happy 4 the couple. TBH, my impression of Kitty was of a way too innocent(and could even go as far as saying gullible) girl that was only...

To tell you the truth, if i was an author and knew that some of my readers were stealing my books in order to read them i know 4 a fact I wouldn't mind, if anything, i'd be delighted that they were...

I read Factotum and that alone made me not look for the rest of his other books. I'm not saying he's a bad writer or anything like that but he's way too much of a nihilist 4 me. Lemme guess, do the...

Great book. Levin's revelation imo, is more of an acceptance of his own faulty persona. Near the end he states, that he will never be close to his brother like he was with his other brother, will...

thnx^^:santasmil

Thought I was on the right track, not sure if others felt the same way...makes sense now.