Mine is "The Mute's Soliloquy" by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Mine is "The Mute's Soliloquy" by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven-Sherman Alexi
'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' (Seth Grahame-Smith) caught my eye. What it says on the tin apparently.
To A God Unknown
Winner Take Nothing
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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I was always partial to "Of Mice and Men", "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "The Sound and the Fury".
A good quote is always nice. Maybe that's why I like, "Slouching Toward Bethlehem".
F. Scott fitzgerald's ....
A Diamond as Big as the Ritz.
Huxley had a knack for making titles out of some of Shakespeare's best lines - 'After Many A Summer', 'Time Must Have a Stop'. I quite like Maugham's title's - 'The Moon in the Gutter', 'The Razor's Edge'. Joyce - 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' is a great 'what it says on the tin' title. Others: 'Murder on the Orient Express', 'The Seven Pillars of Wisdom', 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'...
it's probably been mentionned before but :
"On murder considered as one of the fine arts"
Charm is the name of a beauty ignoring its own power.
On the sea, beneath it, in the air, and in all the parts of most of the lands, I have gone a-hunting in quest neither of fame nor of fortune, but the vindication of the act of living.
East of Eden and Far from the Madding Crowd.
Mourning Becomes Elektra
The Illustrated Man
Adios, Scheherezade
The Prophet is a book I never got tired of reading and after reading it I felt that the author of this book is a mystic. I got transformed after that. I am no longer the same and my attitudes have undergone a sea change.
This book is unbeatable and recommendable for those who is interested in spirituality.
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
Interesting that you call The Moon and Sixpence the Moon in the Gutter is that perhaps a foreign translation?Originally Posted by mal4mac
I recommend the Bothers Karamazov too
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
Les Miserables is always a worthy read.
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