that settles it im asking for book tokens this chrimbo
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Great forum! I am always on the lookout for some good reading ideas too :) My personal favorites are:
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom, The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz, All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot and The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. Good luck finding something you like!!!
Les Miserables
TheBigDecline wrote:
The Last Stand by Stephen King
its "The Stand" and yes its an amazing early King novel.
All Philippe Claudel's books, all of them
- la petite fille de monsieur Linh
- les âmes grises
- J'abandonne, etc They've all been translated in English
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- Love in the time of cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Night train to Lisbon - Pascal Mercier
- All books by Victor Hugo
How many books do you want? 
red-lady wrote:......
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert.....
Right at the start I mentioned John Irving. In IN ONE PERSON he writes:
“The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.”
Oct 21, 2013
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Bravo Two Zero
Book by Andy McNab
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Bravo Two Zero is a 1993 book written under the pseudonym 'Andy McNab'.
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The book recounts the story of an SAS patrol behind enemy lines in Iraq, in 1991, which was led by the author and included another writer 'Chris Ryan'.
Published: October 1993
Adaptations: Bravo Two Zero (1999), Bravo Two Zero
red-lady wrote:
All Philippe Claudel's books, all of them
- la petite fille de monsieur Linh
- les âmes grises
- J'abandonne, etc They've all been translated in English
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- Love in the time of cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Night train to Lisbon - Pascal Mercier
- All books by Victor Hugo
How many books do you want?
Good we have a Marquez fan here. Somone important once said that evryone should read the Bible and "100 Years of Solitude". They are both interesting novels.
Oct 21, 2013
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LoekBergman wrote:
Wow, I have to read it again.
I remember from it that existence precedes essence, which implies that you can not describe yourself/any other and that his conclusions seemed at first sight counterintuitive until you read how he came to that conclusion. That is for me similar to questions like 'the sound of one clapping hand'. The crazyness of that question is the experience of yourself beyond any well known structure.
But it was a very lonely world in which you could not be yourself, yet everything was perceived from the egocentric viewpoint.
Furthermore do I remember that he was very strict about responsibility. It is your freedom - and choice - hence inevitably and totally yours. I like(d) the latter.
I'm sorry, Loek, I didn't see your response!
I don't think I understand the analogy, "...the sound of one hand clapping", as it pertains to "existence precedes essence"? Isn't "the sound of one hand clapping" an error in term usage, since you can only make the sound of clapping with two or more hands? Whereas the phrase "existence precedes essence" I've understood, like you seem to be saying, that people are not born good or bad, for example, people are instead born free to be good or bad if they choose?
I'm missing the correlation?
Oct 21, 2013
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The analogy of the one clapping hand stops at the experience that existence precedes essence. Focusing on the question can bring you across the border of automated perception. The experience can't be described using words, exactly because it can't happen. An unicorn does not exist, but the moment you think about one, you have one in your mind. Your mind can however not get a grasp on the idea of the sound of one clapping hand. It has to fail, but it is not coming at ease like it can come at ease when creating an image of an unicorn.This uneasiness is the gateway to raw experience. Where words do not go.
The answer on the question can not be expressed using language or any form of categorization. The same applies to the experience of existence preceding essence. Words can not describe it. The moment you describe it, is the moment you lose it.
As far as I have understood JPS are people in his opinion every moment again free, not just born free. When they describe themselves as being good or bad starts the time that they alienate from themselves. Humans are good nor bad, there existence precedes any characterization.
I hope that it makes more sense now what I am writing.
One of my favorite lesser-known novels is The Awakening by Kate Chopin.
Lesser-known among the non-literature crowd, anyway. A 19th C. woman wakes up!
Oct 21, 2013
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goldendog wrote:
One of my favorite lesser-known novels is The Awakening by Kate Chopin.
Lesser-known among the non-literature crowd, anyway. A 19th C. woman wakes up!
Was she in a coma or something?
DrSpudnik wrote:
goldendog wrote:
One of my favorite lesser-known novels is The Awakening by Kate Chopin.
Lesser-known among the non-literature crowd, anyway. A 19th C. woman wakes up!
Was she in a coma or something?
A coma of paternal repression.
rooperi wrote:
red-lady wrote:......
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert.....
Right at the start I mentioned John Irving. In IN ONE PERSON he writes:
“The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.”Didn't know that Roopi. Thanks. I read it only 34 times 
@Loek: Are you familiar with the work of Jeroen Brouwers? Few authors make me laugh, but he always does. I love his novels.
You are welcome. 'Bezonken Rood', 'Geheime Kamers' en 'Winterlicht' are my favourites.
It's not fun reading like you would expect fun reading to be, but when you look through the misery, he is just great. His most famous oneliner is probably: "my cause of death will be disgust." But like I said you have to read through it. And when you do, it is all very vulnerable.
never seen it as a movie may well check that out thanks