Don Quixote (Part I, 1605 & Part II, 1615) by Miguel de Cervantes
In all the literature in all the world, never was there a character like Don Quixote to have predicted his own fame.
Tag: great book blogs
Candide (1759) by Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet]
By keeping it to a much smaller scale, Voltaire is able to enforce magnetic and grandiose ideas in a line equivalent to a line in poetry.
Share the knowledge:
*** 100th Post *** WHY I WRITE: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction (1998) edited by Will Blythe
Writers write to feed that demon-babe who cries out from the misery the world has inflicted upon it. Hemingway and Orwell wanted to use their gifts to help change the world for the better. And the world, I believe, is glad they did.
Share the knowledge:
Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley
Many readers who cross the literary environs and pages of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley (1818) will close the last pages of the book and consider Victor Frankenstein as one who is tragically flawed.
Share the knowledge:
Aspects of the Novel (1927) by E.M. Forster
Even though E.M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel was first written and used for lectures inside the classroom at Trinity College, Cambridge, I cannot help but to imagine sitting in a stuffy classroom, loosening my collar, briefly staring out the window onto a sunny spring day in 1927 only to be drawn back to a powerful sermon concerning the craft of writing, given by a professional who knew what he was talking about.
Share the knowledge:
Blood Meridian (1985) by Cormac McCarthy
In Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy provides the reader with an overwhelming experience of cowboys roaming the range in search of scalps, either Mexican or American Indians.
Share the knowledge:
The Art of Fiction (1984) by John Gardner
In The Art of Fiction’s preface, Gardner writes: “About all that is required is that the would-be writer understand clearly what it is that he wants to become and what he must do to become it.”
Share the knowledge:
Master Class in Fiction Writing (2006) by Adam Sexton
Master Class in Fiction Writing (2006) by Adam Sexton is a useful tool and guide along the way of crafting memorable fiction.
Share the knowledge:
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel García Márquez is a brilliant book by a true master, storyteller and magician. While on a family vacation in Acapulco, Gabriel García Márquez became struck with a vision of a story that, in two years, would become the sensational novel called One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Share the knowledge:
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) by Joseph Campbell
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) by Joseph Campbell is the book that awakened in writers and storytellers in publishing and in screenwriting to the larger scope of mythology as metaphor and to the underlining structure of stories.
Share the knowledge:
The Masks of God, Vol. II: Oriental Mythology (1962) by Joseph Campbell
The Masks of God: Vol. II, Oriental Mythology (1962) by Joseph Campbell is again one of those marathons of the mind.
Share the knowledge:
The Spies of Warsaw (2008) by Alan Furst
From there, the reader follows Mercier as he sways a German named Halbach to spy against his country. By book’s end, Mercier is able to smuggle top secret documents out of Germany but is promoted as punishment and ordered out of the country.
Share the knowledge:
Terry Fox Fun Run (2013) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
A fun run in Saigon
Share the knowledge:
Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East (2008) by Robin Wright
”The Constitutional Rebellion of 1905-1911 forced the weak Qajar dynasty to agree to Iran’s first constitution and parliament. Foreshadowing the 1979 revolution, the revolt was launched by the same powerful troika–the clergy, bazaar merchants, and the intelligentsia–that would come together again later in the century. Their goal was to curtail the monarchy’s power.”
Share the knowledge:
Techno-Culture and the Future of Education
Immediately there is a question of metaphor in the title itself. ”A day made of glass” has an untold number of connotations. First, glass can either be extremely durable (as advertised in the video) but it can also be fragile. The future itself, as presented in the video, would be in a delicate state, or flux, of durability and destruction.
