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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
Just finished Olga Tokarczuk's "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead," which won the Nobel Prize for literature, and from the beginning, I was really marveling at her writing (and kudos to the translator as well, as it was originally written in Polish). I read it on a Kindle, and was highlighting passages that I really liked and I swear at one point, it seemed I had turned half the book yellow. Just a few examples:
"The most ordinary stumps turned out to be entire kingdoms of Creatures that bored corridors, chambers and passages, and laid their precious eggs there. The larvae may not have been beautiful, but I was moved by their sense of trust -- they entrusted their lives to the trees, without imagining that these huge, immobile Creatures are essentially very fragile, and wholly dependent on the will of people too." "Everything will pass. The wise man knows this from the start, and has no regrets." (She has a paragraph break there). "I think in the Czech Republic it's very different. The people there are capable of discussing things calmly and nobody quarrels with anyone else. Even if they wanted to, they couldn't, because their language isn't suited to quarreling." Also, last Fall, I read Nicole Krauss's "The History of Love," which was one of the best, most moving books I've ever read. So there ya go.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
weirdwizardx Veteran user 389 Posts |
Read “The name of the eind” by Patrick Rothfus it is just like a dream...
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I know Lobo likes the author Stephen Crane. I recently finished reading a bio of him by a writer named Linda Davis which was very well written. A lot of bios can fall into a "just the facts, Ma'am" dryness, but Davis has a definite point of view (not all of which I agree with) which makes it much more interesting.
I liked it so much I went on to read another bio by Davis of The New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams. That was fun because it had a lot of the cartoons reprinted in it, and Addams was quite a character, though it was a little too gossipy and ultimately inconsequential for my taste.
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magicfish Inner circle 7006 Posts |
The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
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The Esoteric Encyclopedia of Eternal Knowledge
by Vernon Linwood Howard |
LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
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On Jan 8, 2020, landmark wrote: Thanks for the tip! I'm actually not a huge fan of his fiction, but he's my favorite poet.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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