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What are some of your favorites pieces of Literature?
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The Queen of The South: Arturo Perez Riverte
Giovanni's Room James Baldwin (gay warning: but is great, and I've read almost all Baldwin's major work) Another Country, If Beale St Could Talk,
The Secret History Donna Tartt
if you want to go really far back, Wuthering Heights, Tender is The Night, The Age of Innocence,
Giovanni's Room James Baldwin (gay warning: but is great, and I've read almost all Baldwin's major work) Another Country, If Beale St Could Talk,
The Secret History Donna Tartt
if you want to go really far back, Wuthering Heights, Tender is The Night, The Age of Innocence,
I've been on a journey thru classic literature last 10 years or so. Here are some of my favorites.
First off, I keep track of what I read using the icollect books app - iCollect Books
You can scan the barcode or manually add book, giving it ratings etc. My 3 favorite in bold
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My favorite so far is:
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
The story concerns a visit by the devil to the officially atheistic Soviet Union. The Master and Margarita combines supernatural elements with satirical dark comedy and Christian philosophy, defying categorization within a single genre. Many critics consider it to be one of the best novels of the 20th century, as well as the foremost of Soviet satires.
It has Satan, a big black cat walking around on it's legs, naked witches flying around etc. It's a great book, should be the next one you read.
en.wikipedia.org
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Alchemist - this is the fastest, smoothest book I've read, just flowed from page to page. One of the best selling books ever
From the app, these are the ones I gave 4 or 5 stars:
1984
Animal Farm
The Brothers Karamazov
A Clockwork Orange
Dubliners by James Joyce - short stories, one of my favorites
Fahrenheit 451
Hunger by Michael Grant
Journey To The End Of The Night by Celine - crazy book
Lolita
One Flow Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Plague, The Fall, Exile and The Kingdom by Camus
The Prince by Machiavelli - this is a great book I will read again, felt like I needed to take notes.
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
Slaughterhouse Five
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - how Christians wrecked Africa
Popular Books I didn't like
To The Lighthouse - just really random, only liked 1 thing in that book
Leaves of Grass - frustrating, it's like 5% genius, 95% repitition
Faulkner - hard to read, might try again, trying his short stories first
First off, I keep track of what I read using the icollect books app - iCollect Books
You can scan the barcode or manually add book, giving it ratings etc. My 3 favorite in bold
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My favorite so far is:
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
The story concerns a visit by the devil to the officially atheistic Soviet Union. The Master and Margarita combines supernatural elements with satirical dark comedy and Christian philosophy, defying categorization within a single genre. Many critics consider it to be one of the best novels of the 20th century, as well as the foremost of Soviet satires.
It has Satan, a big black cat walking around on it's legs, naked witches flying around etc. It's a great book, should be the next one you read.
The Master and Margarita - Wikipedia
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Alchemist - this is the fastest, smoothest book I've read, just flowed from page to page. One of the best selling books ever
From the app, these are the ones I gave 4 or 5 stars:
1984
Animal Farm
The Brothers Karamazov
A Clockwork Orange
Dubliners by James Joyce - short stories, one of my favorites
Fahrenheit 451
Hunger by Michael Grant
Journey To The End Of The Night by Celine - crazy book
Lolita
One Flow Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Plague, The Fall, Exile and The Kingdom by Camus
The Prince by Machiavelli - this is a great book I will read again, felt like I needed to take notes.
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
Slaughterhouse Five
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - how Christians wrecked Africa
Popular Books I didn't like
To The Lighthouse - just really random, only liked 1 thing in that book
Leaves of Grass - frustrating, it's like 5% genius, 95% repitition
Faulkner - hard to read, might try again, trying his short stories first
Blackrogue
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Unbearable lightness of being
Anything by Neruda, anything by anais nin
I used to read books not interested in the stories per se but how they thought and processed things. I was dropping out of college cause of family issues at the time and felt I needed to grow smarter and was self educating myself.
Anything by Neruda, anything by anais nin
I used to read books not interested in the stories per se but how they thought and processed things. I was dropping out of college cause of family issues at the time and felt I needed to grow smarter and was self educating myself.
Blackrogue
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The Magus by John Fowles
A young man's journey, as a playboy, and academic into the dangerously surreal and alluring Greek islands, as he becomes increasingly involved with elaborate games, played out on the scenic Aegan sea, where reality begins to blur, and death, sex, obsession start to unravel into madness.
Think The Game (1997) in the Greek islands
A young man's journey, as a playboy, and academic into the dangerously surreal and alluring Greek islands, as he becomes increasingly involved with elaborate games, played out on the scenic Aegan sea, where reality begins to blur, and death, sex, obsession start to unravel into madness.
Think The Game (1997) in the Greek islands
Amo Husserl
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The Blind Owl
Fahrenheit 451
Invisible Man
Fahrenheit 451
Invisible Man
Blackrogue
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She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say.
The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.
Sad in a way really..
Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera
The idea of the motif. It's in classical music. Repeating a pattern till it's resolved. It's beautiful still small changes. So you find people who repeat the same things whether it's people or circumstances..but same motifs. Trying to resolve it.
There's this quote I'm looking for about the millionth part vs the one in a million describing different types of womanizers. The one looking for the one unique aspect about that person they haven't had yet and want to experience again. Vs the one looking for the ideal.
Also read a lot of poetry cause I wrote a lot of that. Stephen crane. Surrealist poets from England..I think I did Robert frost..Stephen crane. Roald Dahl who did Charlie and the chocolate factory but had short stories as well.
I was on my Tupac shyt. Where you see some mention of something and you'd read the thing to see what it's talking about. E.g Machiavelli. Also there's stories in music as far as patterns and motifs
The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.
Sad in a way really..
Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera
The idea of the motif. It's in classical music. Repeating a pattern till it's resolved. It's beautiful still small changes. So you find people who repeat the same things whether it's people or circumstances..but same motifs. Trying to resolve it.
There's this quote I'm looking for about the millionth part vs the one in a million describing different types of womanizers. The one looking for the one unique aspect about that person they haven't had yet and want to experience again. Vs the one looking for the ideal.
Also read a lot of poetry cause I wrote a lot of that. Stephen crane. Surrealist poets from England..I think I did Robert frost..Stephen crane. Roald Dahl who did Charlie and the chocolate factory but had short stories as well.
I was on my Tupac shyt. Where you see some mention of something and you'd read the thing to see what it's talking about. E.g Machiavelli. Also there's stories in music as far as patterns and motifs
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Blackrogue
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I remember this one as far as the story of the prince and the islands and there's no such things as princesses, islands, magicians. The king said this. And it's instructive in the sense when you are told certain things don't exist because you are not ready for them but eventually if you wanna travel and open that door.. the truth comes out.
It'd be good if people posted quotes from the books.
Complexion
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The Satanic Verses is well worth reading.
I'm not usually one for fiction but picked this up back when as a jit to see what kicks and thought it was a decent story, if a bit provocative. Read it again a while later when I had a bit more experience and insight into various religions and found it eye opening, like the man sat there and decided to push the pen for his own version of Hit Em Up in hardback format.
Reread long after and was stunned at the depth, levels of symbolism and so much more that I'd initially missed as there is subtext to the subtext of the inferences. The latest one was accompanied by an Islamic scholars perspective and insight as well as a whole load more time and experience on the planet from myself and it just blew my mind as the pages flipped.
That, my friends, is the mark of good literature and why I'd recommend reading it. No matter what you may think as it certainly will make you do this as the crux of his argument (and reason for the title) originates not in him but from actual, reputable Islamic scholars themselves about the passages in question but its really so much more than this as he used it as a springboard to address such diverse topics as good and evil, why darkies fiend for PAWGs over their own ladies as well as those who hate their race (and thus themselves), fame, celebrity, mental health, revenge, betrayal, the human condition along with the divine feminine and its contrast to the patriarchal age we're living in and so much more.
Its really quite slick how many threads are woven together in the narrative and its as current now as it was then, if not more. I wrote an article about it with an overview in case you want to get a feel for it before investing in 500 pages that'll make you think.
willhelp.me
I don't read much fiction but this I've read again and again since it was published back in 88 and Salman got chased through his building, didn't fall back and gained 92 stacks instead.
I'm not usually one for fiction but picked this up back when as a jit to see what kicks and thought it was a decent story, if a bit provocative. Read it again a while later when I had a bit more experience and insight into various religions and found it eye opening, like the man sat there and decided to push the pen for his own version of Hit Em Up in hardback format.
Reread long after and was stunned at the depth, levels of symbolism and so much more that I'd initially missed as there is subtext to the subtext of the inferences. The latest one was accompanied by an Islamic scholars perspective and insight as well as a whole load more time and experience on the planet from myself and it just blew my mind as the pages flipped.
That, my friends, is the mark of good literature and why I'd recommend reading it. No matter what you may think as it certainly will make you do this as the crux of his argument (and reason for the title) originates not in him but from actual, reputable Islamic scholars themselves about the passages in question but its really so much more than this as he used it as a springboard to address such diverse topics as good and evil, why darkies fiend for PAWGs over their own ladies as well as those who hate their race (and thus themselves), fame, celebrity, mental health, revenge, betrayal, the human condition along with the divine feminine and its contrast to the patriarchal age we're living in and so much more.
Its really quite slick how many threads are woven together in the narrative and its as current now as it was then, if not more. I wrote an article about it with an overview in case you want to get a feel for it before investing in 500 pages that'll make you think.
Salman Rushdie, JK Rowling and the Power of the Pen
Salman Rushdie stabbed himself. At least, according to Iran that is what happened. Have you ever read The Satanic Verses? I’d be willing to bet those who are up in arms about this sequence of…
willhelp.me
I don't read much fiction but this I've read again and again since it was published back in 88 and Salman got chased through his building, didn't fall back and gained 92 stacks instead.