Other books and poetry

[Castor]

Hello all,
I was wondering..
We all spend here some time talking to each other about various things, mostly about dreaming, stalking, meditating, for that is the purpose of this forum.
I, personally like reading books very much, so maybe in this topic we could write about other books and authors that we have read. And we can recommend a good book to each other

[Castor]

I don't know has anyone of you been reading Milan Kundera. He is an European writer From Czech republic (former Czechoslovakia). He lived in Prague (the capital of Czech republic)

He is pretty good and interesting to red. He is offering his understanding of the world, society and on the individual in 20th century. Since he spent all his life trying not to be bounded within the narrow streets of the society, most of his books are telling about an absurd situations and confrontations that average man meets in society and inside his true essence. Since he lived in communism, it wasn't easy for him to think free, or to speak free..
I can truly recommend you two of his, many more good, books:
1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
2. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

[Creepy Pippy]

"Don't Kiss Them Good-bye" by Allison Dubois is an amazing book. It is very simple reading, as in you can read through it pretty fast and it is simple in the way she puts out her information. I read it in two days, would have read it in one if I had the reading time. She is a medium that the show Medium is based off of and she has a strong relationship with the show and how it is put out. I have yet to see the show, now I am intrigued.
The importance of her book however is what got me. First of all she is trying to reach out to all those young psychics and/or mediums and help guide them to believe in themselves and their gifts. Second she is trying to make us realize that we should always live life to the fullest and let the important people in our life know how we feel about them, because you never know when our time is up. And then she also wants you to know that the people in your life that have crossed over are still there looking out for you and visiting you. To not forget them and that it is okay to talk to them because they are listening.
Now I am reading "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" by C.S.Lewis. Mainly because the movie is comming out in December and it has been 20 years since I read these books so I want it fresh in my memory when I see the movie.

[Helena]

I am reading many things at once as always and looking back at older books at the same time sooo, mostly read authors the last weeks...
Rudolf Steiner (sheeesh, fell asleep but interesting indeed)
Alberto Villoldo (Actually haven't read his book for a month but got something with the mail today so feels good to mention him. Very good book though, the white one, probably the latest of his.)
Lynn Andrews, windhorse Woman...very interesting, reading to find out more about hmm, something particular.
Ellie Crystal's www.crystallinks.com interent library about egypt, mostly religion and Ellie's trip since taking a trip there on thursday, yeh finally! Working a bit on pyramids. Is interesting and stabilizing.
Robert E Chaney Transmutation...interesting alchemy
Small compendium on violett flame and s:t germain.
Peeked in Carlos Power of silence a little but...was more interesting to do some runeworks on the names of nagual line...hmmm...and stories from the wanderlings netpage...was mostly trying to figure out why Julian was pulling me in and out of dreaming so much a year ago...I may be solving this...it is working through. Good.
And they have the nerve to call me lazy, bha sweetcheeks...
Well now you all know what I do.

[Castor]

Pippy, I love ''The Cronicles of Narnia'' and have read The Lion, the Withc and the Wardrobe..
It will be great to see the movie

[Castor]

Thanks for recommendations). Usually, when I came to library, I sneak around it for an hour trying to decide what to take...
I've just finished reading (for the fourth time) Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. I love Hugo.
I like classics in generally. Have you been reading Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Camus, Proust, Sartreand what is your opinion about their books?
And concerning poetry...Pablo Neruda, Federico Garcia Lorca, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire...? So many of them are great
My country has a great poetists, but it would be hard to translate them in English
I like sf novels too, Frank Herbert with Dune novels is just perfect.., Isaac Asimov with Foundation and Empire
Most of all I love J.R.R. Tolkien with his famous trilogy ''The lord of the rings'', but besides that he has written ''Silmarillion''- the book about the history of MiddleEarth, and few more books that are great as well. I truly recommend it to all that haven't read it.
And Erich Maria Remarque?
He was a German writer and wrote about World War II, about individual in that rough period, about people in Germany that disagreed with the Nazism, about concentration camps, about German deserters in other countries Excellent books! True recommendation, especially for the books: The Arc of Triumph and Spark of life.
All the best to all,
Castor

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