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twistedrope · 26-30, M
Definitely my favorite is Breakfast of champions by kurt vonnegut.
The contrast of a man going mad and pretending to be alright with a man who knows there's something wrong with him... Its great.
The best book I've ever read is the brothers karamasov by fyodor dostoyevski.
It's a great story that teaches honesty to oneself. An almost impossible task start doing.
The best non-fiction book I ever read was "Letters to those who dare teach" by Paulo Freire
It gave me all the perspective I needed on the action of learning, it's disadvantages and great advantages.
The contrast of a man going mad and pretending to be alright with a man who knows there's something wrong with him... Its great.
The best book I've ever read is the brothers karamasov by fyodor dostoyevski.
It's a great story that teaches honesty to oneself. An almost impossible task start doing.
The best non-fiction book I ever read was "Letters to those who dare teach" by Paulo Freire
It gave me all the perspective I needed on the action of learning, it's disadvantages and great advantages.
EnglishLitLover · 56-60, M
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Smartygirl24 · 31-35, F
@EnglishLitLover no
EnglishLitLover · 56-60, M
I commend it to you x@Smartygirl24
Smartygirl24 · 31-35, F
@EnglishLitLover tnx
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Patriot96 · 56-60, C
With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
@Abrienda Could you recommend me something from Joseph Conrad, please? I am not familiar with works of this author.
Abrienda · 26-30, F
@CrazyMusicLover I am so sorry for not replying sooner! of course I can
Heart of Darkness....on which the movie Apocalypse Now was based. It's theme is civilization is fragile and the Darkness (in this vase the savagery of the Congo jungle) waits everywhere to overwhelm it inside us. This disturbed people very much at the time but they would see the Darkness take over whole nations of high culture such as Germany and Russia very soon. Conrad was inspired by a real event that took place in the Congo some years earlier. Maybe I will post on comment on it...
Nostromo....this must be my favorite. Takes place in a fictional South American Republic. It is so many themed that it is hard to summarize for you in an intelligent way but it revolves around four completely distinct characters and deals with trust, faith, loneliness, vanity, envy, greed and thwarted hopes borne silently. It is also how things do not always get better with time that progress may be material but not spiritual and that maybe what we lose by progress is not worth what we gain...Conrad so perfectly expresses that sentiment that he needed only half a page to do it.
Lord Jim... this was written after Heart of Darkness but fear replaces savagery as "lying in wait", It is about honor and that there are somethings that you do in a moment of weakness you can never escape, that the weakness is part of you and will come out again and again in ways you do not anticipate. Like Wilde, Conrad implies such a mistake can only be redeemed by your death. It also has one of my favorite quotes..."A man can be judged by his enemies as well as by his friends."
What brought me to Conrad was a short story of Conrad's called "Almyer's Folly". My father gave it to me when I was only 15, thinking that as a Eurasian girl I must consider its theme, the choice between two fundamentally different racially based cultures, and the message Conrad gives about the choice. It disturbed me very much and took me some time before I could talk to my father about it but when I did the world suddenly became very sharp and clear. Perhaps I shall post about that instead.
Sorry for the length but I wanted to treat your request seriously.
Heart of Darkness....on which the movie Apocalypse Now was based. It's theme is civilization is fragile and the Darkness (in this vase the savagery of the Congo jungle) waits everywhere to overwhelm it inside us. This disturbed people very much at the time but they would see the Darkness take over whole nations of high culture such as Germany and Russia very soon. Conrad was inspired by a real event that took place in the Congo some years earlier. Maybe I will post on comment on it...
Nostromo....this must be my favorite. Takes place in a fictional South American Republic. It is so many themed that it is hard to summarize for you in an intelligent way but it revolves around four completely distinct characters and deals with trust, faith, loneliness, vanity, envy, greed and thwarted hopes borne silently. It is also how things do not always get better with time that progress may be material but not spiritual and that maybe what we lose by progress is not worth what we gain...Conrad so perfectly expresses that sentiment that he needed only half a page to do it.
Lord Jim... this was written after Heart of Darkness but fear replaces savagery as "lying in wait", It is about honor and that there are somethings that you do in a moment of weakness you can never escape, that the weakness is part of you and will come out again and again in ways you do not anticipate. Like Wilde, Conrad implies such a mistake can only be redeemed by your death. It also has one of my favorite quotes..."A man can be judged by his enemies as well as by his friends."
What brought me to Conrad was a short story of Conrad's called "Almyer's Folly". My father gave it to me when I was only 15, thinking that as a Eurasian girl I must consider its theme, the choice between two fundamentally different racially based cultures, and the message Conrad gives about the choice. It disturbed me very much and took me some time before I could talk to my father about it but when I did the world suddenly became very sharp and clear. Perhaps I shall post about that instead.
Sorry for the length but I wanted to treat your request seriously.
pandainpinktutu · 26-30, F
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
Smartygirl24 · 31-35, F
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Abrienda · 26-30, F
@Mistypetal Yes with the picture of him as perfect being his God-given soul and his suicide a form of contrition and redemption as shown when the picture is restored to its pristine image, the idea that God is all forgives all. That of course is not open to interpretation as he mentions it in his letters to friends about the book being labelled immoral. Its an interesting concept considering his ambivalence over his own homosexuality and the betrayal he was committing against his wife and children.
Gangstress · 41-45, F
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Fiction or non fiction?
Smartygirl24 · 31-35, F
@SW-User non fiction I prefer
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“The 50s” by Halberstam was great.@Smartygirl24