The Great World--David Malouf
The Great World--David Malouf
The Great Gatsby ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
Great Expectations--Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (BTW, I loathe them both!)
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
I've never read OT, and I wasn't that impressed with GE either. Dickens is hardly a great stylist, and he's not particularly profound either. So, nothing he has written has touched Eliot's Middlemarch, the true Victorian masterpiece.
Bleak House--Charles Dickens
The House on the Borderland ~ William Hope Hodgson
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
The Border Trilogy--Cormac McCarthy
The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border - Walter Scott
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended—
If you pardon, we will mend,
And Robin shall restore amends.
Now give me your hands if we be friends.
- Extracted from Midsummer Night’s Dream by W. Shakespeare -
South of the Border, West of the Sun ~ Haruki Murakami
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
The Sun Also Rises--Ernest Hemingway
Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended—
If you pardon, we will mend,
And Robin shall restore amends.
Now give me your hands if we be friends.
- Extracted from Midsummer Night’s Dream by W. Shakespeare -
Foundation and Empire by J.G. Ballard
The Empire of the Ants ~ HG Wells
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
Empire State--Adam Christopher
Naked Empire - Terry Goodkind
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended—
If you pardon, we will mend,
And Robin shall restore amends.
Now give me your hands if we be friends.
- Extracted from Midsummer Night’s Dream by W. Shakespeare -
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