The latter you have read the book. Experience
The latter you have read the book.Impressions.Not about literature. I read recently a book by S. A. Bazhanov What is radar. A kind of primer for those who do not in the tooth foot, as they say. Year 1948й naturally honestly steal someone scans. Visited me that's the idea, but someone took again for obydlenie country really came from. Here's a look at the people who did became much smarter? Nope, did not. Grow consumers of two types, first know how to push buttons, the latter may explain the first, where to click. Without understanding how it works, what they are too tight. It's not about the College and University graduates, although they are oaks-oaks by half at least. Gone was the focus on promoting only the light that was in the Union. Old books getting smaller, they disappear even from the Internet. The mythical copyright holders (the rights to what? For books whose authors are long dead?!) carefully clean all and all. What value was the literature...it is written in such a way that even illiterate farmer could understand, superficially, in General terms, but to understand what it actually. The explanation is literally on the fingers, with examples from everyday life. I'm not only about a particular book, there are many excellent books on many areas of practical knowledge of the benefits of the thirties on radio, in which it is written how to make the most of the electronic components with your hands and a variety of books-collections of the house master (me for example from the publishing house Tekhnika, Kiev) to cooking and knitting.
There is no such. Modern authors do not seek to bring knowledge to everyone, as if between them there is a competition to create a very high barrier to entry. A specialist on the profile of their creations nafig fell, he was already an expert. The same kid who looked into the book, seperately kraynyak this book interesting, interesting fucking topic, you hit the wall formula and highbrow boring and his interest wanes. And in addition to tediousness there is also a lot of typos, microscopic font, and a hideous paper. And there's such a moronic thing as focus on shops. You know, bourgeois manners, those same guests can find a supermarket with any material and the tool anywhere. Take to store that crap, that crap and that crap, if you do not, the author does not move, a smart writer, the author has published a book and wants money.
It's sad, I apologize for the wall of text.
Silence Inside
My, someone's in addition to Huxley wonderful world reading
requiemmm
What the claims of modern authors, if available of the book with technicians in the fingers about which you write above? Incidentally, books with the desire to convey knowledge to all comers - evil unambiguous. And the barrier to entry is wrong, it's great.
Astilla
But nothing lasts forever. Time goes by, the Internet clean links die, hard copies are lost or deposited by the collectors. If I found, not the fact that in five years we will find somebody else.
Knowledge does not kill, people kill. If I want someone to Bang, I can build a bomb if I don't know how to set it up, I'll just Zap the object of his dislike with a brick, with the same effect. But to control the ignorant and stupid of me a lot easier. To sell miracle pills, plasters on his forehead from hemorrhoids, optimizers magnetic fields in my apartment...or just send to die in the name of Allah. Also, do not forget that I live in Russia, in a country where nothing ever works as it should. Basic practical knowledge and experience can be critical for survival. If in a pigsty collapsed furnace, the roof leaks and the lights went out, the pig needs to learn the profession of a Builder, roofer and electrician for repairmen may not appear. Never.
Suddenly Elf vampire is not a toy!. And it's...boring. No, of course I realize that in books of this genre, the plot is in place okagesama, but regime and implausible opisie sex work is still not happening. Actually, I read and forgot that I did.
Google.
Um...no.
Charles Bukowski Women. Despite the rudeness and dill, old Henry Chinaski sweet and touching. I catch myself thinking of empathy and easy identification with GG. What was not long ago.
Andrzej Sapkowski"the Witcher book first.Liked it,but no desire to read further,as the story is know tricholoma Polish movie.(
series where Ender card Orson Scott.
TO MADNESS MASTERPIECE. No, seriously. Particularly impressed by the trilogy of the Voice of those who are no - Xenocide - Children of the Mind. Very, very, very.
Those who at least heard something about science fiction FIRMLY recommended.
The little Prince... a gorgeous book, so young, yet so deep... definitely going to reread. Masterpiece. 10/10, although this is not enough
besides from technical literature
the last thing I read is the song of ice and fire George Martin. which is book 3.
but it was so long ago...
and experience. what is the end? it's very bad. want selling. continued bought but not opened yet.
and I read the dawn of magic 2 French authors (do not remember how). but found nothing new. but the book was interesting. but not read blown away somehow. it was the last art book that I opened.
recently opened a program that can read the text aloud and read thus the hour of the ox of Ephraim (sort of). but I've listened to.
Last read this novel the Shit by Irvine Welsh. The next day after reading watched the film adaptation - the Mud. Very impressed with the main character, a dirty COP Bruce Robertson, calculating sociopath who manifest acute mental disorder and he is ready to step over everyone to achieve their goals. I highly recommend to fans of the writings of Palahniuk and hunter S. Thompson.
Now reading Game of Thrones (book 1) and House of cards by Michael Dobbs.
Volt123
Citadel read? Still is, in the opinion of the author, the main book of his life. Which few people know and even fewer of those who read to the end. Well, in comparison with the Prince, the flight and the Planet software.
requiemmm
About the Citadel heard, but not read. And do not quite understand what he had under the program. The presence in the program any string of educational institutions? Duck is the Prince certainly did not do worse, in which Saint-Exupery is also a lot of work invested and devoted of which to his friend.
The presence in the program any string of educational institutions? Yes. If you ask people on the street what they know exupéry, the answer is the Little Prince, Night flight, the planet of people. People read under duress at school forced - read. Not forcing the horse. Naturally, the presence and lack of popularity does not affect the quality of the work. I was somewhat bother by the fact that with a circulation of 3-4 thousand copies and attaining the age pirate the Internet owner may divide. Philosophy is not the most popular fiction, with some books already happened unpleasant event - they can not buy, not download, you cannot order the circulation due to death of the publisher. Remained in the hands of units and where these units only God knows and tax. Software that print literature regularly, it's not going anywhere.
Never let me go" by Kazuo Ishiguro. After reading it was sad. A little thinking about life. A good book, I advise you to read.
requiemmm
About Prince - I read it because of the reviews of the people and the size (time now little in three-dimensional work, whether in the Prince 500 pages would not have worked), and Saint-Exupery used to know it as the author and pilot who wrote Planet of people, houses a collection of lay (all the contents of the collection do not remember large). Didn't know until recently that this tale is written. And the school did not read, although I remember what she was like. Was supposed to be.
Yes, there are such works that is not printed and are not very popular, that the Moon beast Kilworth is a great book, about animals the author tells better than the same in London. But it was out of print, had to print e-mails, because of his love for it is a paper fiction. Although it is necessary for the e-books go.
By the way, the Citadel has not been forgotten - the last reprint Dating from 2010 with a decent circulation of 7 thousand copies. The Prince in the same year and the same series of 10 thousand. And on Amazon Citadel are still around and even bestseller is.
N. Nikulin, memories on war. Recommended to all fans of Solzhenitsyn, Novodvorskaya and Vlasov.
The Persian boy Reno.A wonderful book with which you can learn a lot about Alexander the Great.The second book in the duology(the first Divine flame).I do not recommend to read those ooooooooooochen not tolerate in the books, same-sex relationships.Although same-sex is difficult to call it(read,understand).