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Captain Wh
I want downright great and poignant writings: philosophical readings ,poetry, novels etc. Please give me some recommendations on books or literature that will have an impact on my life and expand my brain. Writings that will provoke deep thoughts, look at life from different perspectives and take me on an emotional ride. Thanks.
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Try the Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway, and read the Mark Musa translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. Read the whole thing, not just Inferno. In fact, it's probably best if you start by reading Dante's "Vita Nuova" and then move on to the Divine Comedy. I swear that I heard music when I was reading the final Cantos of the Paradiso.
Try the Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway, and read the Mark Musa translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. Read the whole thing, not just Inferno. In fact, it's probably best if you start by reading Dante's "Vita Nuova" and then move on to the Divine Comedy. I swear that I heard music when I was reading the final Cantos of the Paradiso.
Can you recommend some great books for me to read?
Christina
I love reading. Now that the kids are getting older I have a little bit more free time and have began reading again. I want to know the titles of some great books out there. I am not into romance books at all but I will pretty much read anything else, fiction and nonfiction.
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4 approaches I would suggest:
Books written in a language that is demanding: Henry James, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, George Elliot, Edith Wharton, Evelyn Waughn, D H Lawrence and so many more, often called the classics
Books that contain a concept that is relevant to humanity or maybe more philisophical. Authors are Arthur C Clarke and Stanislav Lem are scifi but actually more phylosophy in an easier to digest context. Hermann Hesse's Siddartha on Buddhism.
Books that explain how literature uses its tools to influence the reader and present the basic psychological influences of language: David Lodge, 'The art of fiction' takes the 50 major novels and writes 2-4 pages each on what that novel did particularly exemplary in fiction.
Books that deal with a different culture: Wild Swans by Jung Chang and The good Earth by Pearl S Buck on China, Max Frisch or Hermann Hesse as German literature, Shadow of the Wind (Ruiz Zafon) Spain, Emile Zola, Balzac, Stendhal for French literature, Yasunari Kawabata represents Japan, etc. Robert Graves 'I Claudius' is such a funny but educating novel on Rome. The stranger and The pest by Albert Camus on Algeria.
Hope this helps
4 approaches I would suggest:
Books written in a language that is demanding: Henry James, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, George Elliot, Edith Wharton, Evelyn Waughn, D H Lawrence and so many more, often called the classics
Books that contain a concept that is relevant to humanity or maybe more philisophical. Authors are Arthur C Clarke and Stanislav Lem are scifi but actually more phylosophy in an easier to digest context. Hermann Hesse's Siddartha on Buddhism.
Books that explain how literature uses its tools to influence the reader and present the basic psychological influences of language: David Lodge, 'The art of fiction' takes the 50 major novels and writes 2-4 pages each on what that novel did particularly exemplary in fiction.
Books that deal with a different culture: Wild Swans by Jung Chang and The good Earth by Pearl S Buck on China, Max Frisch or Hermann Hesse as German literature, Shadow of the Wind (Ruiz Zafon) Spain, Emile Zola, Balzac, Stendhal for French literature, Yasunari Kawabata represents Japan, etc. Robert Graves 'I Claudius' is such a funny but educating novel on Rome. The stranger and The pest by Albert Camus on Algeria.
Hope this helps
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