Reading Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin. Bought it on a whim last time I was in the bookstore, it's not bad but it's taking awhile to sift through to get the meat of the novel.
Reading Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin. Bought it on a whim last time I was in the bookstore, it's not bad but it's taking awhile to sift through to get the meat of the novel.
1. I am reading "On the Meaning of Life", by Will Durant. it's in fact a Chinese translation version.
2. My girlfriend left it for me so i just pick it up.
3. "Will you interrupt your work for a moment and play a game of philosophy with me? What is the meaning or worth of human life?"
4. P52/154 Chinese version
5. I find it an interesting book, with replies from vastly different people on the question of inquiring meaning of life, full of intellectual pleasure.
I am reading the book of a greek author named penelopi delta. the book title is "The secrets of the marsh"
Kornél Esti by Deszö Kosztolányi. I't's the second book I've read of this author, I loved the first so I'm hopeful I will enjoy this one as well.
the luminous grass of the prairie hides
feet lovely and still as sleeping doves,
porcelain bones strong enough to carry a life,
but weighty and unmovable
As black Dakota hills. ~ Riesa
1. David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
2. I'm a House of Leaves fan and one of my friends recommended it to me.
3. I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.
4. Haven't really started the book yet, but expectations are high.
5. ^
“Why did god create a dual universe?
So he might say
‘Be not like me. I am alone.'
And it might be heard.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
It's a tremendous book. It's takes work and patience but it will be an experience unlike any other.Originally Posted by The Truth
the luminous grass of the prairie hides
feet lovely and still as sleeping doves,
porcelain bones strong enough to carry a life,
but weighty and unmovable
As black Dakota hills. ~ Riesa
I'm reading Five People You Meet in Heaven
Love Your Enemies, It Pisses Them Off
Never Look Away, by Linwood Barclay
A thriller. Started only yesterday, and got to the 300ish pages today. I can't put the book down.
When life gets hard... Laugh!
The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing. I've read nothing by Lessing so far, so I decided it was time to begin. I picked it up because the title caught my eye and after reading three chapters I think I'm going to like this novel. The unconventional female protagonist is an added attraction.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. ~ William Blake
Captivity is consciousness,
So's liberty. ~ Emily Dickinson
Jacques and his Master by Milan Kundera. Very funny play and takes just an hour or so to read.
I hope death is joyful, and I hope I'll never return -Frida Khalo
If I seem insensitive to what you are going through, understand it's the way I am- Mr. Spock
Personally, I think that the unique and supreme delight lies in the certainty of doing 'evil'–and men and women know from birth that all pleasure lies in evil. - Baudelaire
The Madonnas of Leningrad
"Don't Drink Drive Smoke and Fly"
Man to Computer:"did we bring batteries?" Computer: ......
Art doesn't look as good when it goes down in value"
"jimmy crack corn and I don't care"
I never really warmed to jane eyre, I read it when I was ten and haven't dared touch it again. A friend of mine has this interesting theory that there are three types of people in the world, well four when you consider the type who don't read. You have the Jane Eyre type, the Wuthering Heights type and the Pride and Prejudice type. Your type is determined by your preference. In our observations so far, we've noticed that although appreciation of the non-prefered novels does occur in rare cases, more often than not people will be able to watch film versions of unliked novels but dislike reading them, however in most cases these types seem to mutually exclusive. I'm deffinately a wuthering heights type of girl and must say that i have a prejudice against pride and prejudice and dislike all of austen's work.
1. author + title: Heller, catch 22
2. why u desided to read the book: just thought that I may as well
3. first sentence in the book: It was love at first sight.
4. page u are on: 329
5. what u think of the book till now: very enjoyable, but I'm hoping that the ending will throw the whole thing into some kind of sense
The Woman in White - Wilckie Collins
Buy the Ticket, take the Ride...
Tender is the Night (F Scott Fitzgerald) and House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodegson.
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
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