So this is for all the booklovers out there? What is your fallbook? As in which is the book you read when you don't feel very good, or need to take a break from the Universe?
Most of the books where the central character belongs to autism spectrum - is somewhat depressing. But it gives a fresh perspective to me.
Some time back, there was a student whom I asked not to put “reading feminist literature” in hobby. She did. And was not so happy with me for making this suggestion. After her selection, she sent me a gift. I didn’t read it for a year thinking oh she judged me!
Then last year during the lockdown, I read it. And loved it.
This is it!
@Neyawn u wer referring 2 lexicon?
No, I also have business books / books on start up in my collection.
Lexicon gets attention from friends who are done with upsc, and are like sheesh, you still have this ? :P
ssver2,
I also loved Kite runner by KH. Some of its lines have stuck with me.
In fact, I always been attracted to books that have good opening lines.
Like “I became what I am when I was 10 years old” from the kite runner.
Or , “Eddie lay in the sand dying in the sun. Most endings are new beginnings, it is just that at that time, we don’t know”
”This story begins at the end. Most endings are nee beginnings”
Nay guessed which book ?
Her social peers to family - I perceived them as commentary on contemporary Japan's peculiar aspirations. Post WW2 Japanese society has a dark undercurrent - which I found raw in Satoshi Kon's works.
If you haven't already - you may try Eleanor Oliphant. It has similar flavor - but a 'happier ending'.
I read that she had to quit the job - because of crazy stalker fan(s).
1. The kite runner"when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth"2. Tuesdays with Morrie"Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins "3. Twelve year a slave.What difference is there in the color of the soul?4. Poetry - Rumi , Ghalib , faiz , gulzar , Faraz , Javed Sahab .
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice".
An opening line for decades, and a closing paragraph for eons.
I discovered the book very late in life. By the time I did I was near / in my thirties when work, health, family and career catches up with you from all fronts, leaving very less time for anything leisure.
I plan to read it when I am a little older, and have more time up my sleeves.
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The registration process is bit complicated - but not very tough.
My God. What is it? It feels like some sort of dark web thing. It's very complicated :p
I cannot learn the commands. How do I get invited?
@SHMNND Am I doing this right?
'Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.- The Stranger, by Albert Camus
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York. - Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar
All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true - Slaughter house Five
I have read all three, and they are really great, especially The Stranger by Camus.
Neyawn,ssver2It has nothing related to dark web - it is one of the largest members-only depository for ebooks & audiobooks.
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