This link opens in a pop-up window
Tolstoy wrote that happy families are alike and that each unhappy family is unhappy in …
Content warning Oops I said enough already
It's the funniest novel with a golem and a polyincestuous family you're going to read this summer ! There's that hint of melancholy when summer's over and the young man escapes []? this madness, but there's a time to say, 'This shit can no longer be going on !'
Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic …
Probably funnier and finally more heartbreaking than any other I can think of. Remember when you weren't a serious person without his books? On a true banana republic island, the revolutionary ruler and a holy hermit keep the balance in a world gone mad. Everyone is thinking about other things, but randomness has finally led to an invention with no application aside from destroying everything.
Follows a man's thoughts and dreams during a single night. It is also a book …
Like Orwell's 'Coming Up for Air' this stupendous work got rather lost in the excitement of 1939. You can or should laugh aloud on almost every page, as Joyce did while writing it. It's not a job, or meant to make you miserable. He knew 7+ languages, so there are not double meanings but quintuple or only Joyce knew how many. Anthony Burgess' ReJoyce is a great help. If you read only a page every day it would add a lot to your life
Follows a man's thoughts and dreams during a single night. It is also a book …
Challenge yourself, there's nothing like it
Coming Up for Air is the seventh book by English writer George Orwell, published in …
Lost in the excitement in 1939, here's an Orwell that isn't grim, bored, starving etc. A traveling salesman gets a chance to flake out to his childhood hometown having won a bit of money & the wife not aware. Everything has changed of course, and the modern world is showing its sinister shape more and more and everywhere. In all of England, he muses, no one right now is firing a machine gun out of an upper window -- but in a year or two? It's funny, breaks your heart and we can be glad Orwell didn't have to witness our day, and the things he was dead right about.
London life just after World War I, devoid of values and moving headlong into chaos …
Content warning There is some language not used politely today, just as in Pudd'nhead Wilson ...
One that I can read every 2 or 3 years -- endless enjoyment