Moby Dick. A must read to any Classics lover!
Moby Dick. A must read to any Classics lover!
"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."- George Bernard Shaw
For a philosophy course, Hobbe's Leviathan.
Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. About 25 pages in.
Originally Posted by Darcy88
Great! It's one of my all-time favorites. And if you want to read about an interesting life-story for a novel (such as it's composition, publication, and reception), then check it out. When Werther was published, it rocked Germany.
In a Free State (V. S. Naipaul)
The Third Policeman (Flann O'Brien)
At Swim-Two-Birds (Flann O'Brien)
Inside Mr Enderby (Anthony Burgess)
So Long, See You Tomorrow (William Maxwell)
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Currently reading: THE THIRD MAN and THE FALLEN IDOL (Graham Greene)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, because I found the premise intriguing.
"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
Yeah I heard many young men committed suicide in emulation of the book's main character.
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”
- Kurt Vonnegut
It also influenced the fashion style! Felt hat and brown jackboots were all the rage.
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.
Richard III. I was ifluenced by this latin quote "ars longa, vita brevis".
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl. I bought it for my niece.
Nana (Emile Zola)
La Pianiste (Elfriede Jelinek)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
I bought it because I'd read all the other appealing classics on the shelf of my local book store already.
While the truncheon may be used
in lieu of conversation,
words will always retain their power.
Words offer the means to meaning,
and for those who will listen,
the enunciation of truth.
Gone With The Wind, by Margaret Mitchell.
When I walked up to the checkout counter at my local bookstore with an armload of books, somehow this one made it into the pile. It's a pretty nice 75th anniversary edition.
I'd always avoided this book, thinking it was racist, but it turns out it's mostly just a romance novel. Also it takes place right around where I live. The Flint River runs near my house, and so does Tara Boulevard, which was named for the plantation in the book not vice versa. Mitchell's descriptions of the landscape around here are fabulous.
As for her depiction of plantation life in the South in the 19th century, uh, I donno, man. It's written from the perspective of the Southern Landed Gentry and I suppose they may have had a romantic view of their lifestyle. But I'm continually finding myself trying to figure out how much of it is what those people thought of themselves and how much of it is what Mitchell, writing in the 1930s, imagined them to be.
Anyway, back to the checkout counter at the bookstore: a sweet young black girl was ringing up my books and we were laughing and chit-chatting with each other right up until she got to that book. She took one look at it and gave me a malignant stink look.
I said, "Sorry about that one. I guess I really just wanted to know what's in it."
She said, "Alright then."
I suppose I should've bought Michelle Obama's book as a counterbalance.
Uhhhh...
That's funny Sancho. It reminds me of when I ordered in a textbook on psychopathy. The look that clerk had as I spelled out the title was pretty funny. "Yeah it's called Without Conscience: The disturbing world of psychopaths around us." I wanted to say "It's not a self help book!"
While the truncheon may be used
in lieu of conversation,
words will always retain their power.
Words offer the means to meaning,
and for those who will listen,
the enunciation of truth.
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