According to the 'Modern Library' anyway... I started last year to try to read, in my lifetime, this list of 100 classic novels. I have heard so many people rant and rave about some of these books, I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I find that so many people don't have an opinion for...
ENFPs often have strong, if unconvential, convictions on various issues related to their Cosmic View. They usually try to use their social skills and contacts to persuade people gently of the rightness of these views; his sometimes results in their negle cting their nearest and dearest while...
I recently picked up a used copy of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. As the title would suggest, it features essays on 1,001 books that the editors have chosen as important or essential reading. The book is fundamentally flawed as it features eleven selections by J.M. Coetzee and only two by...
"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" by ukaunz 2000s Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro Saturday – Ian McEwan On Beauty – Zadie Smith Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson The Sea – John Banville The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble The Plot Against America –...
What are five books that changed your life? Inspired by Ms. Genevieve. Yay! Fun question! A Separate Peace by John Knowles The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy American Pastoral by Philip Roth
This rash of "list books" has really taken up a significant place in many people's imaginations the last few years. There is the 1000 Places to See Before You Die, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Or 100 Best Movies. And 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. And many others. Each TV...
After getting into long philosophical conversations with my mother, and though I love them, I always end up in a funk. We talk in circles about life and all of its unenviable facets like disappointment, pain, and the like. Therefore, I feel like posting some passages from my favorite heartbreaker...
In August during our Berkshires trip, we spent a day visiting Edith Wharton's home for ten years, The Mount, in Lenox, MA. The place was fascinating, and we went on a tour of all the rooms as we heard about her difficult yet colorful life - her estrangement from her husband which ultimately led to...
"I see my work as social satire and social anthropology."-Candace Bushnell OH. MY. LORD. Candace, dear, Edith Wharton called, she'd like you to shove it. This "Sex and the City,' cultural flotsam, tripe is nothing more than fodder for overgrown teenagers who like to fantasize about what it would be...
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