Both are excellent books Click.Originally Posted by ClickForth
Good choices.
Both are excellent books Click.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
I've recently ordered:
The Basic Works of Aristotle
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America -- Christopher Hitchens
Library of America's one volume compilation of some of Thomas Jefferson's writings
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson -- Joseph J. Ellis
Yesterday my sister bought me the book Almost Dead by Lisa Jackson.
Page by page, word by word, until I'm done my knowledge is renewed.
I recently dropped by a used book store and picked up:
George R.R. Martin & Lisa Tuttle -- Windhaven
Joseph Silk -- The Big Bang
Leonard Susskind -- The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design
S is for Space a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury
Shall these bones live?
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham.
"Life is full of the comic, and is only majestic in its inner sense"
-Dostoevsky
I have finally bought my own copy of "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" by Patrick Suskind. I read the book a year ago, after I borrowed it. Since I have read it and enjoyed it immensely, I have wanted to buy a copy, but there was always something else. I decided to brought it now, because my Book Club is going to read it this month and I would need my own copy this time.
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Currently reading:
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
I actually picked up three last night:
Ranier Maria Rilke's- Sonnets to Orpheus translated by Edward Snow
(I have greatly admired Snow's translations of Rilke's other collections and finally got around to buying this one)
Fernando Pessoa- A Little Larger than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems translated by Richard Zenith. Pessoa is certainly one (or I should say several) of the strongest poet(s) of the 20th century that no one has ever heard of. I have been obsessively collecting his writings since I first came across him (and much still remains to be published and translated) and I have an earlier, smaller collection of poems translated by Zenith.
Luis de Góngora- Selected Poems- translated by John Dent-Young. Góngora has long had a reputation as one of the giants of the Spanish Baroque... as labyrinthine and difficult as Donne, Mallarme, or Joyce. I've only ever come across a few sonnets in translation by Longfellow and others in old anthologies and have had to accept his reputation on faith. I'm hoping this book changes that.
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
My Blog: Of Delicious Recoil
http://stlukesguild.tumblr.com/
"The sound and the fury" W Faulkner
Through the darkness of future past
the magician longs to see
one chance out between two worlds
'Fire walk with me.'
Twin Peaks
a beautiful, if difficult one.
The God Delusion ~ Richard Dawkins
"Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house, they are company and don't let me catch you remarking on their ways like you were so high and mighty."
The Last of the Mohicans ~ James Fenimore Cooper
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
'The War' by Geoffry C. Ward and Ken Burns, and 'The Complete Longer Non-Fiction and Journalism' by George Orwell.
You might find our TSATF discussion threads interesting, Manolia:
http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=16592
http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=16940
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
~
Hard Times by Charles Dickens and Silar Marner by George Eliot, both for my novel course!
I'm the patron saint of the denial,
With an angel face and a taste for suicidal.
The First Crusade - A Modern History & The White Devil by John Webster
"vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us" - Jane Austen
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