The Holy Bible, NIV version. It surprised me how different it were from other version but it interesting to think about various translation as sometime translation say more about what people want than about what they need.
The Holy Bible, NIV version. It surprised me how different it were from other version but it interesting to think about various translation as sometime translation say more about what people want than about what they need.
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For an after-exams treat I bought myself Being Elizabeth Bennet By Emma Campbell Webster. It's a cross between a book and a game: you have to make decisions and answer questions, and the choices you make determine which page you go to next. You add up points for intellegence, fortune etc, and are aiming to 'marry well and for love'. It's really good fun and totally engrossing, and is written in a Jane Austeny style with a modern humour. I would certainly reccommend it to any Austen fans!
"The magic gave me insight, and you gave me a heart, but for all the heart and insight in the world, I am still a cat."
Bought The Complete Mr. Moto Film Phile--A Casebook by Howard M. Berlin so I could read up on the films. Am currently reading Last Laugh Mr. Moto (the fifth of six novels) by James P. Marquand and hope to get the eight Peter Lorre movies on DVD in the very near future and have a marathon viewing. I like Charlie Chan in small doses but I enjoy the energy of a Mr. Moto who does not hesitate to use deadly force when necessary. TCM ran Thank You Mr. Moto (the second one recently and reawakened my interest in the character. Note book/movie character are very different in presentation.
Today I bought these three: Being and Nothingness by Sartre(the copy I once lent to a friend was never returned to me),The Myth of Sisyphus(I never owned this) by Camus,and finally,finally,I found a copy of The Castle by Kafka. It's been a good day.
Noću, u intimnom, poluglasnom razgovoru sa samim sobom, nikako ne mogu zapravo logički opravdati zašto se u posljednje vrijeme toliko uzrujavam zbog ljudske gluposti.
Miroslav Krleža
That should keep you quiet for a while!Originally Posted by andave_ya
I'm taking a whole bunch of my mom's old books from Lebanon home with me - cast your eyes on these beauties
The Great Gatsby
The Aeneid
The Confessions of St. Augustine
The Old Man and the Sea
Brave New World
The ABC Murders
The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
Animal Farm
Waiting for Godot
Christian Liberty
Notes on Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Oresteian Trilogy
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Last Days of Socrates
The Theban Plays
Utopia
Fire Bringer ~ David Clement-Davies
The Quest ~ Wilbur Smith
A Room With A View ~ E.M. Forster
The Three Musketeers ~ Alxandre Dumas
German Stories and Tales
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Dark Muse, I can only speak for one of those books; I simply loved "A Room With a View". I liked all of the Forster novels I have read. I think I read "A Room With a View" twice (it is short, and very enjoyable.)
That last book you bought sounds interesting to me. Are they short stories?
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Yes I loved A Passage to India, so I cannot wait to read more of Forster's work
The German tales are short stories from a varity of different authors.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Put a hold on everything you're doing right now,and read that book!
I've read pretty much everything by Kafka,and The Castle ranks with the very best of his works in my opinion,sometimes it's even slightly better than The Trial.
Noću, u intimnom, poluglasnom razgovoru sa samim sobom, nikako ne mogu zapravo logički opravdati zašto se u posljednje vrijeme toliko uzrujavam zbog ljudske gluposti.
Miroslav Krleža
What Maisie Knew + The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James
Haha, and that's on top of the 20plus books I've already got waiting unread!That should keep you quiet for a while!
"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."
Dina's Book - Herbjorg Wassmo
It was on sale for a dollar, and I liked the cover. It's also been on my to read list for several years.
Cent ans de solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carmen Prosper Mérimée.
"La dignité n'est qu'un paravent placé par l'orgueil et derrière lequel nous enrageons à notre aise." Honoré de balzac.
"La réalité implacable me conduirait au suicide si le rêve ne me permettait d'attendre". Guy de Maupassant.
Cent ans de solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
I bought it because I was looking for another novel of his, Love in the time of cholera, and I didn't find it, i find this one instead and when I read the introduction, I was immediately seduced, I am enjoying it.
"La dignité n'est qu'un paravent placé par l'orgueil et derrière lequel nous enrageons à notre aise." Honoré de balzac.
"La réalité implacable me conduirait au suicide si le rêve ne me permettait d'attendre". Guy de Maupassant.
The Mandarins - Simone de Beauvoir
i loved All Men Are Mortal so i thought i'd give this one a try.
"Life is a long lesson in humility." - James M. Barrie
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