Mill's autobiography
Mill's autobiography
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
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater- Thomas De Quincey
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
Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens.
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
It's a classic. A friend and I are reading it together.
"They murdered him."
page 118
It's good, it's powerful, it's scary, and still very, very timely.
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Bonzai "Some people say I done alright for a girl." Melanie Safka
Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift.
I've heard it referenced to often.
My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons.
235/305
It's pretty bland compared to most of the stuff I've been reading. I'll be glad to move on.
if not, winter - Sappho
Regeneration by Pat Barker
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
I am currently reading 'Tender is the Night' by Fitzgerald. Mainly because I loved The Great Gatsby that much. I am now somewhere around the 50 page mark and it hasn't gripped me yet like Gatsby did but there's still a lot of the book left so I'm hoping for the best.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past - The Great Gatsby
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice - Polonius (Hamlet)
1. Ian McEwan, Solar
2. My father sent it to me as a present.
3. "He belonged to that class of men - vaguely unprepossessing, often bald, short, fat, clever - who were unaccountably attractive to certain beautiful women."
4. Page 144 out of 283
5. I did not want to read this as I heard an adaption on the radio and it annoyed me. However, the book has started to win me over. It's about a scientist who struck lucky in his youth and won the Nobel prize for physics. Since then he has become a sort of academic bureaucrat. He is also a borderline sociopath - not violent, just very selfish and unfaithful to his wives. He is appointed the head of a research institute for alternative energy and lucks out when one of his researchers dies in a freak accident, leaving him his ground-breaking work into 'synthetic photosynthesis'. Alternative energy and climate change are really only plot devices though. It is not like Michael Crichton's State of Fear. This book is more a comedy on academia, a bit like Ray Bradbury's The History Man or David Lodge's books. It is particularly interesting to me because I studied an MSc in Renewable Energy, so the sections about the pointlessness of urban wind turbines were amusing. Also I am attempting to complete a PhD at Reading University's School of Construction Management and Engineering, which has little engineering, but a lot of construction management and a high proportion of social scientists. So I found the conflict between the social scientists and hard scientists in the book amusing. It is partly set in Reading, around Winnersh by the sound of it.
According to Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence once said that Balzac was 'a gigantic dwarf', and in a sense the same is true of Dickens.
Charles Dickens, by George Orwell
I'm not entirely sure if this counts as a book or not, ah well
1. Suzuki Violin School Volume One, Suzuki
2. To learn the violin.
3. Principles of study and guidance...
4. Page four.
5. Learning the violin is exceedingly difficult D:
'The road goes ever on and on, now from the door where it began... Now far ahead the road has gone, and I must follow, if I can' - That dude who liked elves
1. Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass
2. School
3. "I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot county, Maryland."
4. Page 76 (Just completed)
5. It's a good book... Can get a tad purple at times, but considering the conditions of its creation I consider that more a feat of the human mind than anything. It may also not be the most complete account of slavery, but it is a compelling and intelligent one, so I suppose I'd recommend it.
1. A Wizard Of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
2. Found it lying around the house, looked interesting.
3. "The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards."
4. Page 38
5. Not really far enough to make a judgement. I like it thus far, I think the worldbuilding is good and the story is building up to something interesting, but again, I'm not particularly far into it. (It's been a frustratingly slow read for various reasons)
"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear."
-As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
This Side of Paradise
Words - Sartre
Skugga Baldur- Sjón
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 Catcher in the Rye
'The road goes ever on and on, now from the door where it began... Now far ahead the road has gone, and I must follow, if I can' - That dude who liked elves
I am reading "Schultz and Peanuts: a Biography." I decided to read it because I wanted to know more about the man who wrote my favorite comic strip. The first sentence in the first chapter, "Sparky," reads: The great troop train, a quarter-mile of olive green carriages, rolled out of the depot and into the storm. I am now on page 176. I think it's very interesting; I have learned things about Charles Schultz I didn't know. For one thing, his family had moved from Minnesota to California for a brief time.
The Stars My Destination-Alfred Bester.Classic 50's pulp sf.
Nearly finished. Not the greatest prose but a great anti hero for a protaganist and a really driven narrative.
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