lecturi electronice

daca tot l-am primit, il dau mai departe:
* Robertson Davies - The Rebel Angels (1982), e pe lista lu burgess, a celor mai bune 99 de romane de limba engleza (vezi mai sus).
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asta-i primul volum al trilogiei cornish. le pun shi pe-alelalte ca merita sh-am dat mult cu tunu pana le-am obtzinut.
a doa carte a trilogiei, nu shtiu de ce, se vinde independent in spania cu un succes nebun, in timp ce de prima n-a auzit mai nimeni.

The Rebel Angels is the first of the three connected novels of Davies' Cornish Trilogy. It was followed by What's Bred in the Bone (1985), and The Lyre of Orpheus (1988).
The Rebel Angels follows several faculty and staff of the fictional College of St. John and Holy Ghost. Perhaps due to its university setting, it did not quite attain the popularity of the Deptford Trilogy, but it is generally considered to be among his best books.
As is typical in Davies' novels, the book touches on a number of themes, among them gipsies, tarot divination, violin repair, Jungian Psychology, Hermetic alchemy, and scatology.

* Robertson Davies - What's Bred in the Bone (1985)

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* Robertson Davies - The Lyre of Orpheus (1988)

cautand o recenzie sa dau cu copy/paste, am dat peste una insurmontabila ce incepe asha: "The Cornish Trilogy consists of three books."
-hai sa mori tu?
m-am linishtit brusc shi va pun altceva:
INTERVIEW WITH ROBERTSON DAVIES
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greu al dracului de gasit.
emotzionata ca am dat peste stimabila carte, sunt optimista urându-i viatza lunga pe scribd.
Michel SERRES - Genesis

Huxley Aldous - After Many a Summer
e pe lista lu burgess a celor mai beton 99 romane.




e cartea pe care o citeshte george (colin firth) in "a single man" a lu tom ford.

shi pentru ca tot am pomenit de "a single man"...

This is an American novel in that it was written by Isherwood after he had taken US
nationality. American critics felt that it was a British novel. One could spend many pages
pondering what makes a book with an American setting specifically British. The hero
George? He has an English background, but he is as much a naturalized American as
his creator (whom he much resembles). It must be something to do with the style--
delicate, elusive and allusive, unbrutal, not like Mailer. I do not like the division of the
novel in English into national entities. This is a fine brief novel in the Anglophone
tradition, whatever that means.
A Single Man has been termed a novel of the homosexual subculture. George has known
a long loving attachment to a man who is now dead. He lives alone and we are given a
day in his life. He is fifty-eight, a lecturer in a Californian college (we see him teaching,
very amusingly, Huxley's After Many a Summer). He is charming, liberal, a not very vocal
upholder of minority rights. His own homosexuality is subsumed in other assailed
minority situations. He tells his students that "a minority is only thought of as a
minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And
no threat is ever quite imaginary... minorities are people; people, not angels." But he
seems a threat to nobody--withdrawn, refined, out of sympathy with American
philistinism and brashness, a man who has lost his real reason for living. He belongs to
that majority (or is it a minority?) called the living, and living means getting through the
day. His day is absorbing to the reader, though nothing really happens. He ends up
drunk in bed, masturbating. He has a lively vision of death--remarkably described: the
silting up of the arteries, the tired heart, the lights of consciousness starting to go out.
He goes to sleep; the day is over. To make us fascinated with the everyday non-events of
an ordinary life was Joyce's great achievement. But here there are no Joycean tricks to
exalt mock-epically the banal. It is a fine piece of plain writing which haunts the
memory.
--Anthony Burgess, 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939

domle, cum se mai leaga lucrurile... am mai tras un pdf faaain shi vi-l ofer. (am cautat fun an cartea asta. profitatzi!)

uite ca mi-au admis-o shi pe scribd (cine shtie pt. cat timp?). frunzaritzi...

wellington, am directionata spre tema asta mai multi amici sper ca nu esti impotriva

draga domnitza, am cont pe forumuri din kishinau, asha ca cu f. mare placere.

nu m-ashteptam, dar am gasit relativ ushor superlaudata The Children's Book de A. S. Byatt



A Sterling 'Book' of a Golden Age
The Washington Post

In 1990, A.S. Byatt received the Booker Prize for "Possession," a postmodern masterpiece that is, in part, a historical romance set in the late Victorian era. "The Children's Book," her brilliant new novel, which has a good chance of winning the 2009 Booker Prize on Tuesday evening, takes a jump forward to fin de siècle Europe, from the end of the Victorian era to the beginning of the modern age. Bristling with life and invention, it is a seductive work by an extraordinarily gifted writer.

The Children\'s Book By A. S. Byatt (.epub) (.lit) (.pdf)-direct.rar
3 formate, pe alese
mai am cartzi de dumneaei dak doritzi. (inclusiv possesion)

Peter Carey was born in Australia in May 1943 and is the author of six novels. He won the Booker Prize in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda (which has since been made into a film starring Ralph Fiennes) and was shortlisted in 1985 with Illywhacker. His other novels include The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith and Jack Maggs (winner of the 1998 Commonwealth Writers Prize). He has also written a collection of short stories, The Fat Man in History, and a book for children, The Big Bazoohley. Peter Carey won The Man Booker Prize for the second time in 2001 with True History of the Kelly Gang and was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize in 2007 and 2009.

mai am shi ofer de de domnia lui:
True History of The Kelly Gang
Illywhacker
Theft, A Love Story

(va pun copertzile aici, între laudele presei pentru Oscar and Lucinda; nu ma mai duc pe topìcu special dedicat frumusetzilor).



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'Luminous and magical, Oscar and Lucinda dances with a shimmer of light and dark as its two noble gamblers play out dreams of God and glass. A spectacular achievement.'
—Helen Daniel, The Age

“Destined to [be] one of the most widely read and admired writers working in English.”
—Edmund White, The Times Literary Supplement (London)

“Wonderful is the only word adequate to the imagination that begot, and the assurance that controls this richly comic novel.”
—Don Anderson, The Sydney Morning Herald

“Bursting with informed gusto, freewheeling comedy, pauses of pathos and moments of surreal poetry – swaggering streetboys ‘with their hands boasting against their braces,’ scared cockatoos flying up ‘like screeching feathers from a burst pillow’ – Oscar & Lucinda is a creative explosion of delight at life’s wayward, diverse plentifulness.”
—Peter Kemp, Sunday Times (London)



“Genius is a devalued, overworked word, but make no mistake about it, in that department Peter Carey has been richly blessed.”
—Punch

“It is the most original and rewarding novel to appear in the English language for many years.”
—Financial Times

“Carey is one of the great story-tellers of our time, the kind who make you take the telephone off the hook, forget the television and ignore the doorbell… He has the rare gift of making the written world more vivid than life.. A magnificent book.”
—Evening Standard

“I sympathise with General Wolfe, who envied Gray that Elegy; I would rather have written Oscar & Lucinda than taken Quebec or produced this review.”
—Rosemary Stoyle, Literary Review (London)

“Peter Carey has written a less boisterous but more beautiful successor to his prize winning novel Illywhacker…Oscar & Lucinda is an ambitious, joyful, work of fiction.”
—The Age

'Oscar and Lucinda are two of the most perfectly realised characters in modern fiction. An immensely skilful and absorbing juxtaposition of a gently comic, obliquely ironic, and deeply compassionate vision of human existence.'
—David Williamson

“The glass church is like the novel, a prodigious and enchanting invention, a gamble, a spectacular ‘folly’, a most unlikely tour de force.”
—Hermione Lee, The Observer

“Oscar & Lucinda is a novel of extraordinary richness, complexity and strength - it is a peopled world, humming, buzzing, dancing with life and liveliness; it brings the past, in all its difference, bewilderingly into our present. It fills me with wild, savage envy, and no novelist could say fairer than that.”
—Angela Carter, The Guardian

“It confirms the author (whose earlier Illywhacker earned him a Booker Prize nomination) as a writer blessed with extraordinary imaginative gifts and an outstanding grasp of language. “
—Daily Mail

“As fine a love story and as fascinating an exploration as any reader could wish…Carey writes as if the world he has created, and his own private life, are at stake.”
—Chicago Tribune



“The stuff of shimmering, transparent fantasy, held together by the struts of 19th-century history and the millions of painstaking details.”
—Time

“ A kind of rollercoaster ride… The reader emerges…gasping, blinking, reshaped in a hundred ways, conscious that the world is never going to look the same again.”
—The Washington Post Book World

“Carey luxuriates in language…[Oscar & Lucinda is] a brilliant success.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“It is Thomas Wolfe one is reminded of most when reading Peter Carey….they share that magnificent vitality, that ebullient delight in character, detail and language that turns a novel into an important book.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“[Oscar & Lucinda] is very, very hard to put down. There are many pleasures to be had here, chief among them the author’s gift for telling fascinating, entertaining stories…Like the characters of Charles Dickens and Honore de Balzac, Mr. Carey’s creations are real in the simplest human sense.”
—Washington Times

“The well of talent from which Peter Carey draws his tales produces work as sweet and refreshing as a mineral spring…Carey nears the summit occupied by Borges and Pynchon and a very few others.”
—Harlan Ellison

“To say he’s Australia’s Dickens is to classify him, like fossil. He’s Australia’s Peter Carey, and ours.”
—Victoria Glendinning, The Times (London)



'The most audacious and rewarding of all Carey's novels.'
—Geoffrey Dutton

Tony JAQUES - Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (3 volume intr-un singur document, din antikitate pân la noi, in ordine alfabetica). - scribd, deci se frunzareshte online.



mda... incerc azi sa urc shi restu din peter carey, pe la munci. daca nu azi, mâine, da promit k-l urc incetunel pe tot. oricum, daca incepi cu "oscar & lucinda" nu cred k-i räu, kiar dak ai vazut filmu (shi yo l-am vazut de fo 6 ori shi am capatat cartea pt. prima oara saptamana asta. cu isherwood, idem. filmu m-a facut sa caut cartea.)

“Illywhacker is such an astonishing novel, of such major proportions, that before saying anything else, one must record gratitude for its existence.”
—Geoffrey Dutton, The Bulletin

“The funniest novel of the year.”
—The Times (London)



"A book of awesome breadth, ambition, and downright narrative joy.... Illywhacker is a triumph."
—Washington Post Book World

“A great tottering tower of a novel which stands up astonishingly against all the odds.”
—Sunday Times

“The finest and funniest picaresque novel yet written in Australia.”
—National Times (Australia)

“A sprawling, inventive and deeply absorbing saga … It is also one of the funniest, most vividly depicted, most entertainingly devious and bitterly insightful pieces of fiction to be published in recent years.”
—Newsday

“Illywhacker is a tour de force, both funny and moving, the work of an original at full stretch.”
—Financial Times (London)

“A vast bubbling stew of a novel, featuring a trickster hero-narrator, by one of Australia’s outstanding writers.”
—The Observer (London)

“Carey can spin a yarn with the best of them.... Illywhacker is a big, garrulous, funny novel.... If you haven't been to Australia, read Illywhacker. It will give you the feel of it like nothing else I know."
—Howard Jacobson, The New York Times Book Review

“It is impossible to convey in a review the cumulative brilliance and accelerating hilarity of the prose.”
—London Review of Books

“A spectacular achievement… Establishing without doubt Peter Carey as one of the most exciting prose writers in Australia today.”
—Books and Bookmen

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a doua e-carte de azi, tot peter carey, cu care ramasesem datoare.

Longtime Carey readers will not be surprised to learn that the hero and principal narrator of his ninth novel is a flamboyantly self-conscious painter who admits to being, in the throes of his work, "a hateful loathsome beast." As he tells his tale, Michael Boone, known as Butcher — the nickname comes from his father's trade, which the son repudiated in his quest for a higher calling — provides munificent evidence of his own failings as a minimally decent human being. But he also claims to be more sinned against than sinning and points to a rough patch in his life, circa 1980, as evidence for his defense: "It was the year I should have got the Order of Australia — why not! — look at who they give them to. Instead my child was stolen from me and I was eviscerated by divorce lawyers and jailed for attempting to retrieve my own best work which had been declared Marital Assets."

Review by PAUL GRAY
Published: May 21, 2006

new york times

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shi Înkei apoteotic.

Awards
Winner of the 2001 Booker Prize.



Out of nineteenth-century Australia rides a hero of his people and a man for all nations, in this masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs. Exhilarating, hilarious, panoramic, and immediately engrossing, it is also ? at a distance of many thousand miles and more than a century ? a Great American Novel.

This is Ned Kelly's true confession, in his own words and written on the run for an infant daughter he has never seen. To the authorities, this son of dirt-poor Irish immigrants was a born thief and, ultimately, a cold-blooded murderer; to most other Australians, he was a scapegoat and patriot persecuted by "English" landlords and their agents.

With his brothers and two friends, Kelly eluded a massive police manhunt for twenty months, living by his wits and strong heart, supplementing his bushwhacking skills with ingenious bank robberies while enjoying the support of most everyone not in uniform. He declined to flee overseas when he could, bound to win his jailed mother's freedom by any means possible, including his own surrender. In the end, however, she served out her sentence in the same Melbourne prison where, in 1880, her son was hanged.

Still his country's most powerful legend, Ned Kelly is here chiefly a man in full: devoted son, loving husband, fretful father, and loyal friend, now speaking as if from the grave. With this mythic outlaw and the story of his mighty travails and exploits, and with all the force of a classic Western, Peter Carey has breathed life into a historical figure who transcends all borders and embodies tragedy, perseverance, and freedom.
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“A spectacular feat of imagination.”The Boston Globe
Review:
“Carey succeeds in creating an account that not only feels authentic but also passes as a serious novel and solid, old-fashioned ‘entertainment.’ A big, meaty novel, blending Dickens and Cormac McCarthy with a distinctly Australian strain of melancholy.”San Francisco Chronicle
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"Vastly entertaining....Triumphantly eclectic, as if Huck Finn and Shakespeare had joined forces to prettify the legend of Jesse James." The New York Times
Synopsis:
Peter Carey, Booker Prize-winning author of "Oscar and Lucinda, " powerfully evokes the legend of 19th-century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly in this novel narrated in defiantly descriptive prose by the barely literate bushranger himself. 1 map & 3 illustrations.
Synopsis:
“I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false.”

In True History of the Kelly Gang, the legendary Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative on errant scraps of paper in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the police. To his pursuers, Kelly is nothing but a monstrous criminal, a thief and a murderer. To his own people, the lowly class of ordinary Australians, the bushranger is a hero, defying the authority of the English to direct their lives. Indentured by his bootlegger mother to a famous horse thief (who was also her lover), Ned saw his first prison cell at 15 and by the age of 26 had become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria, taking over whole towns and defying the law until he was finally captured and hanged. Here is a classic outlaw tale, made alive by the skill of a great novelist.

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frunzaritzi shi dak va place, descarcatzi:
The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories - Hillerman, Herbert

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From Publishers Weekly
Hillerman, author of the Joe Leaphorn mysteries, and Herbert, editor of The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, trace this short-story genre from its beginnings in the hands of Edgar Allen Poe through its development by the likes of Erle Stanley Gardner, Mary Roberts Rinehart and Anthony Boucher to its current practice by such masters as Marcia Muller. Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," which established a great many of the whodunit conventions, is indispensable to such an overview. Raymond Chandler's "I'll be Waiting" emits a doom-laden atmosphere right from the first line; William Faulkner shows unexpected economy of language?and a transparent plot?in "An Error in Chemistry." Ed McBain scores high marks in "Small Homicide," in which the tiny details of a baby's untimely death resonate uncomfortably. As represented in this competent, unstartling collection, Linda Barnes ("Lucky Penny") easily outsasses Sue Grafton ("The Parker Shotgun"). Hillerman makes a solid appearance with "Chee's Witch," and in "Benny's Space" Muller captures the full subtle force of her novel-length vision.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Though Hillerman's introduction notes his impatience with ``the rules'' of the detective story's Golden Age, this magisterial selection of 34 stories is remarkably evenhanded, proceeding from Poe to Ross Macdonald and Rex Stout with scarcely a notable omission (except for Dashiell Hammett, for copyright reasons). The emphasis here is on familiar items, though work by less well-known writers like Richard Sale and Robert Leslie Bellem provide welcome variety. The problem comes in the last hundred pages--all the room the editors leave for the past 30 years. The stories by Bill Pronzini, Edward D. Hoch, Linda Barnes, Sue Grafton, Marcia Muller, and editor Hillerman are mostly exemplary; but other recent masters of the short story- -like Loren D. Estleman and Ed Gorman and Lawrence Block--must wonder why they weren't included when historical curios by Anna Katherine Green and Arthur B. Reeve were. The anthology as museum, with Hillerman and Herbert as suave a pair of curators as you could wish. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Pilar, colega mea de turä astäzi, cineshte un cärtzoi (cunoashtetzi skema: hârtie groasä, literä mare, copertzi cartonate) împrumutat de la o scorpie. asha ca am ajutat-o: am facut supracoperta sul, i-am legat-o cu un elastic de prins paru shi i-am bagat-o in geanta. shi am format un club intelectual in baru hotelului guadalupe, citind fiecare-n felu ei, in oraru de serviciu, fapt ce nu contzine absolut nici un element flamenco!

doo minute-n urma a scapat neshte bere pe carte shi a cam impietrit. drept pentru care i-am zis: dä-mi numele cartzii shi autorul. dupa 30 de secunde i-am aratat ce frumos shedea ebook-ul gratis in biblioteca mea calibre, cu tot cu copertä.
a pus oki de copil pofticios shi a zis ca vrea shi ea.

sa fie aceeashi persoana care acu doo ore zicea ca ea nu poate decât cartzi de hârtie? ca daca citeshte ebooks i se pare k citeshte o pagina web? k ebook-ul e impersonal?

Cartea tiparita vs. cartea electronica – o falsa confruntare

sa fie masa plina.
opritzi-vä ce-avetzi kef.




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Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge.txt
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1. The Historian

The Historian is the 2005 debut novel of American author Elizabeth Kostova. The plot blends the history and folklore of Vlad Ţepeş and his fictional equivalent Count Dracula. Kostova's father told her stories about Dracula when she was a child, and later in life she was inspired to turn the experience into a novel. She worked on the book for ten years and then sold it within a few months to Little, Brown, and Company, which bought it for a remarkable US$2 million.

The Historian has been described as a combination of genres, including Gothic novel, adventure novel, detective fiction, travelogue, postmodern historical novel, epistolary epic, and historical thriller. Kostova was intent on writing a serious work of literature and saw herself as an inheritor of the Victorian style. Although based in part on Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Historian is not a horror novel, but rather an eerie tale. It is concerned with history's role in society and representation in books, as well as the nature of good and evil. As Kostova explains, "Dracula is a metaphor for the evil that is so hard to undo in history."[3] The evils brought about by religious conflict are a particular theme, and the novel explores the relationship between the Christian West and the Islamic East.



Little, Brown, and Company heavily promoted the book and it became the first debut novel to become number one on The New York Times bestseller list in its first week on sale. As of 2005, it was the fastest-selling hardback debut novel in US history. In general, the novel received mixed reviews. While some praised the book's description of the setting, others criticized its structure and lack of tonal variety. Kostova received the 2006 Book Sense award for Best Adult Fiction and the 2005 Quill Award for Debut Author of the Year. Sony has bought the film rights and, as of 2007, was planning an adaptation.

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2. The Swan Thieves

How do you follow the fastest-selling debut novel in US history? That was the task facing Elizabeth Kostova, whose 2005 novel The Historian sparked a bidding war between publishing houses convinced that they had found a book to bridge the gap between the literary reading group and the Dan Brown-buying public. Translated into 28 languages, The Historian – a clever, if not quite as clever as it thought it was retelling of the Dracula myth – had just enough spookiness and study to cast a spell on its readers, many of whom didn't notice that the writing was often as wooden as a stake through the heart.



Which brings us to The Swan Thieves, another literary(ish) thriller (of sorts) which replaces the Eastern Europe of the Vlad myth with 19th-century Paris and the birth of Impressionism. But before Kostova can cast her historical spell, there is the near-present-day premise to attend to.

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LESSING, Doris - Under My Skin (scribd)

Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
1995 James Tait Black Memorial Book Prize,University of Edinburgh
1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize



Under My Skin recounts the first thirty years of its author's life, from her birth in Persia in 1919, through her childhood and young adulthood in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), to her depature, in 1949, for London, where she would make her career as a writer. And yet, in Doris Lessing's telling, the tenor of her life was set even before she was born-- in the devestating impact of the First World War on her parents. Alfred Cook Taylor, Lessing's hapless father, lost a leg in the trenches and married the determined nurse who tended to him; already thirty-five, she herself had lost her lover in the war. To this union of sad circumstances, redolent with disappointment and sacrifice, Lessing traces her own feelings of loneliness and the "struggling panicky need to escape" that caused her to flee from the life of marriage and babies that her upbringing and culture had mapped out for her. Lessing is unsentimental about her past, and advises the reader that "it is a mistake to exclaim over past wrong-thinking before at least wondering how our present thinking will see to posterity." She describes how her mother loved her younger brother, Harry, but not her; how she was not in love with her first husband, nor he with her, "though such were the intoxications of the time it was easy to think so"; how she left him with their two young children, intent on making the world a better place for them ("I was absolutely sincere. There isn't much to be said for sincerity, in itself");how she then married the repressed and coldly logical Gottfried Lessing, a German refugee and comrade, "but only because in those days people could not have affairs, let alone live together." Vividly, she evokes the world which, in her view, made her. We see her as a young girl, growing up in the bush, knowing how to look after chickens, worm dogs and cats, and pan for gold. Lessing also describes the political scene of wartime Salisbury, where she joined a group of Communists, peddling their newspaper, The Guardian, to locals. Interwoven throughout is a portait of the developing writer, in love with books, and recognizing in British colonial Africa a subject worthy of writing about, that "here life is matching her natural disposition--her talents."

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am mai urcat multe alte texte pe care le gasitzi pe scribd, uitandu-va ce face iuzeru sydneywell

una din favoritele mele, din toate timpurile



Thornton Wilder - Our Town
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in state, piesa asta ar fi faina cu jennifer lowe hewitt. are fatza numa buna pentru asha ceva. da cu o bluza mai larga, sa nu i se ghiceasca implanturile.
pe vremuri mi-o imaginam cu ana ciontea shi bleontz foarte tineri.

am gasit atatea afishe shi copertzi minunate, ca s-ar putea face topic numa cu ele.
va pun poze din spectacol, mai bine. imi place muuult decorul.

cartea asta, mai bine zis reactziile in fatza ei, ma lasa pliiina de uimire. nu ca n-ar fi buna, ca daca nu mi-ar fi placut, n-ash fi urcat-o pe pagina mea, sa-mi fie etiketa shi oglinda. dar avalansha de cititori/downloadadori din primele 12 ore pe scribd, m-au luat la fel de pe nepregatite ca shi in cazul operei lui winston churchill. asta in timp ce alte bijuterii se dwnloadeaza cu picatura.



shtitzi k e posibil ca in curand sa zboare de pe scribd (incerc sa intarzi faptul nepublicand numele autorului in titlu, dar shtiu k pana la urma te prind). imi zice unu din subscriberii mei ca el n-a putut publica "our town" pe scribd, piesa fiind pe lista neagra a copyrightului. shi totushi, pe mine m-au lasat. sa-i ia naiba cu regulile lor!

nu-mi pasa de ce, important e ca acum fuctzioneaza. deci daca va imaginatzi ca vetzi frunzari cartzile astea candva in format electronic, coboratzi-le acum.
scribd. daca nu va place aspectu, coboratzi-o in format de text, alegetzi-va formatu de litera shi o facetzi pdf pe urma.
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am fost invitata sa fac parte din elita mondiala a vanatorilor de cartzi in format electronic.

in spaniola nu cred ca va intrereseaza cartzile la care am acces (ca pe weburile de trafic de cultura in spanish sunt regina de mult), dar incepand de maine, pot sa-mi bag mainile pana la cot in comori inaccesibile de limba engleza. daca cautatzi ceva, zicetzi-mi shi va bag o cercetare rapida la nivel mondial. m-a fericit sa descopar cat de bine organizatzi sunt oamenii ashtia shi ca-s la fel de fanatici ca mine. pe deasupra, lucram intr-o atmosfera conspirativa, cu asha reguli de protectzie a mesajelor shi downloadurilor ca ma simt ca pistruiatu-n ilegaliatate. shi nu exagerez, pen ca majoritatea celor ce sustzin webul sunt americani shi ei kiar ishi risca pielea pe bune. pe forum sunt neshte reguli de conversatzie shi de postare atat de severe, ca fun an am citit fara sa ma bag, ca pareau o secta (shi kiar sunt! pardon, suntem). cand m-am logat prima data, am intrat ca-ntr-un templu! cand am oferit prima carte shi au sarit sa-mi multzumeasca adminii pe care-i vedeam ca pe nishte zei, m-am pravalit de emotzie.
iar cand am primit primu pm, am ramas muta! yo! muta!

tzin sa-mi anuntz donatoru de trilogii de robertson davies ca mi-am primit invitatzia shi pentru ca am donat la rândul meu paketu de 9 romane pentru a fi pus in circulatzie mondiala. deci ii foarte multzumesc din nou. nici nu mi-ar fi trecut prin cap sa ma ofer voluntar sa muncesc in depozitu bibliotecii. (l-am urcat pe davies shi pe webul spaniol, imediat dupa ce l-am primit. dar logic ca america de nord, australia, marea britanie ignora total prestigiosul web spanish. kiar daca am pus sinopsisu in engleza, daca nu eshti bilingv sau extrem de intuitiv, e cam greu sa te descurci cu downloadurile.)

e fenomenal sa vorbeshti aceeashi limba (shi nu ma refer la engleza) cu oameni care baga o ora doo de cautari de ebooks zilnic, e fenomenal sa avem liste comune shi sa shtim pe derost ce se gaseshte shi ce nu shi unde shi cum trebuie cautat. shi mai ales, e fenomenal sa colaborezi cu oameni ce nu cauta numa pentru ei, ci pentru totzi. pe deasupra, avem principii comune: de pilda, urâm ebook-urile. ah ce dezbateri avem! daca ar aparea o carte pe tema asta, garantez ca ar fi bestseller!
e... orwellian!
cum sa va zic: webu asta mai publica shi cartzi comerciale, da nivelu cel mai de jos e ken folett. nu sunt cartzi de vampiri, nici continuari "moderne" dupa jane austen, nici chicklit. shi aici am aflat de cartzi fenomenale ce nici n-au ecou in europa. de fapt. n-au nici clasici. n-omsa potzi decarca shakespeare de la ei. au in general literatura foarte greu de gasit. ce-am urcat yo pe scribd in engleza, e 80% de la ei.


am ajuns in situatzia asta pen ca io m-a provocat sa citesc in engleza. acu ma trezesc ca tre sa scriu in engleza. (alta treaba care ma depasheshte). verific corectitudinea fiecarei expresii inainte de a scrie un post. dupa ce mi-am pus ani de zile toata energia vitala in a scrie mai mult decât bine in spaniola, acu ma simt ca la examen. nu va imaginatzi ce concis, discret, elegant shi kiar misterios scriu din cauza autocenzurii!

acu, ca pe langa job tre sa muncesc la greu shi in biblioteca secreta, sper sa-mi ramana timp de citit!

gata, "The World According to Garp" a zburat de pe scribd. daca o mai vrea careva, sa trimita pm.
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uite ce v-aduce moshu, proaspat vânata!

A Mercy - Toni Morrison

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Nobel Prize-winning American author
In her first novel for five years, Toni Morrison fashions a timely parable about the United States's traumatic birth.
In her essay 'Playing in the Dark', Toni Morrison looked back to the founding of America and observed: 'What was distinctive in the New World was, first of all, its claim to freedom, and second, the presence of the unfree within the heart of the democratic experiment.' This sentiment - that ideals of economic and political liberty were dependent on brutal enslavement - is the starting place of all her work, and this, her first novel for five years, is another distillation of it. In her essays and novels, she has pursued - and mostly won - the argument that the history and literature of America were predicated on the exclusion of the black part of its population, that the myths of nation-building contained an explicit or an unspoken 'us' and 'them'. That this book will be published in the week before her nation may choose a President who for the first time could eclipse that divide, who could make 'them' 'us', lends it a fundamental resonance.

hai sa mai ofer înca o bijuterie azi.




download - format epub. (programu calibre, in care se aranjeaza cartzile electronice, citeshte epub shi toate formatele de ebooks)
sunt extrem de mandra ca am gasit cartea. daca o gasesc shi txt. sau pdf. v-o dau.

e.l. doctorow, cum il shtim, exploreaza jegul. in "cartea lui daniel" se ia de una dintre cele mai puturoase poveshti din istoria statelor unite: executzia cuplului julius & ethel rosenberg pe scaunul electric. in “Homer & Langley” merge pe urmele unor fratzi ce traiau in buricu new yorkului, cu complexu lu diogene cu tot, shi a caror moarte a shocat america.

ce a scris the guardian in ianuarie, anul asta despre aceasta carete nou noutza (apreciatzi va rog faptu ca am adus o carte proaspata!), s-a postat pe dgb aici.

the new york times

Books of The Times
How Did They End Up That Way?

By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Published: August 31, 2009

The last name of the title characters of E. L. Doctorow’s new novel, “Homer & Langley,” is Collyer, and the book’s brothers do, in fact, turn out to be versions of those infamous New York pack rats, whose overstuffed Harlem brownstone — crammed floor to ceiling with towering piles of newspapers, suitcases and boxes, as well as 14 pianos, half a dozen toy train sets, chandeliers, a car chassis and more than 100 tons of garbage — made their name synonymous with obsessive-compulsive collecting.

The corpses of the two men would be found in their Fifth Avenue home by police in 1947: one buried under an avalanche of rat-infested trash; the other, dead of starvation and assorted ailments.

How did the well-to-do scions of one of New York’s oldest families come to such a sad and ludicrous end? The story is a kind of male, New York City version of “Grey Gardens,” and it has fascinated writers for years. It reportedly inspired Marcia Davenport’s 1954 novel, “My Brother’s Keeper,” and Richard Greenberg’s 2002 play, “The Dazzle,” and now Mr. Doctorow, using his patented blend of fact and fiction, has tackled it here, producing a slight, unsatisfying, Poe-like story that turns out to be a study in morbid psychology.

Mr. Doctorow (the E. stands for Edgar) has said he was named for Poe, and he’s ventured into his namesake’s Gothic territory before with his 1994 novel “The Waterworks,” a story about science and detection and families. That novel, like the author’s best-known works, “Ragtime,” “World’s Fair” and “Billy Bathgate,” showcased the author’s magical ability to conjure a vanished New York from the dust and smoke of history.

Clearly Mr. Doctorow wants to do something similar here, going so far as to extend his heroes’ lives through the Watergate era, but the reader unfortunately gets little visceral sense of the city or the country in these pages. After all, Homer and Langley spent much of their lives as recluses and came to inhabit a suffocating realm bounded by the walls of their town house. As a result, there are few excursions into the New York City Mr. Doctorow knows so well, and lots of time — far more than the reader might wish — spent inside the Collyer brothers’ musty, dusty, junk-filled home.

In Mr. Doctorow’s fictionalized telling of the Collyers’ story, Langley suffered from a mustard gas attack during World War I and returned home, damaged and possibly mad. His brother, Homer, who narrates the story, went blind as a teenager but became a skilled pianist and enjoyed the attention of lots of women, who apparently found his helplessness alluring.

As recounted in these pages, the Collyers’ parents died during the great flu epidemic of 1918, and after Langley’s return from the war, the brothers set up housekeeping together. For a while the pair maintained an engagement with the world. Homer has an affair with a house servant; Langley has a short-lived marriage to a tempestuous woman. Both of them develop unconsummated crushes on the beautiful and virginal Mary Elizabeth Riordan, who works as Homer’s assistant. There are visits to speakeasies and nightclubs, and encounters with a gangster who may remind readers of Dutch Schultz in “Billy Bathgate.”

Langley becomes increasingly eccentric, however, holding forth tediously on his Theory of Replacements, a cynical hypothesis that holds that “everything in life gets replaced”: that children are replacements of their parents, and that new generations of geniuses, baseball players and kings are replacements of earlier generations of geniuses, baseball players and kings. Langley sets about collecting and saving newspapers so he can create Collyer’s One Edition for All Time, a quixotic, all-purpose newspaper that will sum up all the varieties of human experience in one set of stories.

Speaking directly to us in a slightly wistful voice, Homer is an engaging enough narrator, and his account of his and Langley’s earlier years can be poignant, as he draws portraits of the people who enter and exit their lives like a passing parade: the charming Mary Elizabeth, who leaves to attend a Roman Catholic junior college; Harold Robileaux, their cook’s grandson and a talented cornet player, who goes off to war and never returns; and Mr. and Mrs. Hoshiyama, a quiet, industrious Japanese couple who take care of the Collyer house until they are arrested by the F.B.I. and sent off to an internment camp in the wake of Pearl Harbor.

But as the Collyers isolate themselves from the world and retreat to their monstrously overcluttered house, the narrative stutters and stalls. Mr. Doctorow never succeeds in making the brothers’ transition from mild eccentricity to out-and-out madness understandable to the reader.

And even though the two men come to constitute each other’s entire world, their relationship, too, remains oddly opaque: because Homer’s blindness never hobbled his life as a young man, his growing dependence on Langley feels hokey and contrived, as does his deference to Langley’s more and more antisocial behavior.

Langley stops paying bills and is soon at war with the city and Con Ed; the electricity and water are turned off; and neighborhood children take to pelting the dilapidated house with rocks. Newspapers start doing articles about the brothers, writing of “the decline of a House, the Fall of a reputable family.”

Meanwhile, the stuff in their house seems to multiply. There are “corridors of newspaper bales,” and piles of equipment, collectibles and junk: “the guts of pianos, motors wrapped in their power cords, boxes of tools, paintings, car body parts, tires, stacked chairs, tables on tables, headboards, barrels, collapsed stacks of books, antique lamps,” piles of clothing and rolled-up carpets.

Like characters in a Poe story, Homer and Langley have entombed themselves within their once-elegant mansion — and become the center of “a circle of animosity rippling outward from our neighbors to creditors, to the press, to the municipality, and, finally to the future.”

As reimagined by Mr. Doctorow, however, their story has no Poe-like moral resonance. It’s simply a depressing tale of two shut-ins who withdrew from life to preside over their own “kingdom of rubble.”

postarea 3 de azi

inainte sa convertesc pe careva la lectura in format electronic, avertizez ca persoana va descoperi apoi ca daca cumpara ebooks nu le poate imprumuta prietenilor, ca pe cele de hartie. ca sa nu ma simt vinovata, tre sa va explic ce e ala DRM. deci va rog frumos... in zilele noastre, proprietatea asupra obiectelor cumparate e un banc!

Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a generic term for access control technology used by publishers, copyright holders and others to impose limitations on the usage of digital content, including ebooks. The term is used to describe any technology that inhibits uses of digital content not desired or intended by the content provider. The term does not generally refer to other forms of copy protection such as serial numbers. DRM is used by companies such as Amazon.com and Sony just to name a few.

Electronic books with DRM are keyed to your specific reader and CANNOT be opened or read by others...even if they have a reader like yours. Ebooks from Amazon (.azw format) are all locked with DRM and keyed to your Kindle. They can only be opened with Kindles - including the Kindle for PC/Mac apps - that are registered to your account. There is a complicated process for removing Amazon's DRM but it requires some advanced computer skills including the installation and use of the Python open-source programming language and several open-source applications.

daca fodata vretzi sa scapatzi de DRM, bagatzi pm.

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de pe wish list-ul meu (ramas pe pagina trecuta), am primit paul torday - "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen". multzumiri in genunki!
am urcat-o pe scribd.
wikipedia

simt o fericire incomensurabila!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

in sfârshit, am obtzinut o carte din top tenul wonder-listei mele de aur!

"Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets"


voi ma intzelegetzi, ¿nu-i asha? - la cât de tare v-am innebunit cu serialele shi cu variatele osanale inkinate lu domnu revolutzionar al spectacolului tv, lu domnu care a decis ca un serial cu politzai nu tre sa fie neaparat ca miami vice, ca poate fi arta.

statuie-n piatza pentru claire din new york!!!!!!!!!!!!!

e-bookari din toate tzarile, unitzi-va!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

shtitzi cum sta treaba: descarcatzi repejor, ca nu va rezista mult in scribd.
Homicide - David Simon

Back in 1991 when this was first published in the US, David Simon was a police reporter on leave of absence from the Baltimore Sun; the book, his compression of a year in the work of the city's homicide unit, has the size, heft and moral weight of a 19th-century novel. Barry Levinson made a television series of it, although the tone and tenor of the book - and certain of its setpiece scenes - are closer to Simon's own later cop series, The Wire. So reading it now gave me an odd sense of time dislocation, that events and characters I loved from The Wire actually dated to the post-industrial port in 1988, after the last great recession, just at the arrival of crack cocaine and way before cellphones, satnav and people-trafficking of Moldavian whores. Some of his cops had begun their careers back in the racist force of the 1960s, and all must now be retired gents pottering at home improvements in the suburbs; life now for the redundant black citizenry of the projects and row houses must be worse than then. An extraordinary book.

din contu meu in scribd, mai putetzi frunzari/ citi online/descarca:


Tony JAQUES - Dictionary of Battles and Sieges

[3 volumes]: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity through the Twenty-first Century _ "This three-volume work alphabetically lists 8,500 individual battles from across the world's recorded history, from the Battle of Megiddo in 1468 BC to the US invasion of Iraq. Making no attempt to distinguish or categorize the different battles, the author includes the following information in the entries: the name and date of the battle, the name of the war and the basic military context in which the battle was fought, the opposing commanders (if known), and the outcome of the fighting. A chronological reference guide to all the battles included precedes the alphabetical entries. An appendix lists significant wars that did not have major recorded battles. A bibliography and an index are also included."

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Encyclopedia of Contemporary writers and Their Work (mare succes de downloaduri).
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The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English

The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English offers the ultimate record of modern American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as offer lively examples of usage from popular literature, newspapers,...

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Brian William COWAN - The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse
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Jim Dodge - Fup ( doar 21 pag.; pe-o mäsea!) parca lunatic hope recomanada "Stone Junction" de acelashi autor.

'This novel is fupped uck.'
The Times

'Short, sharp and wickedly funny - Fup shows Jim Dodge to be one of the most original literary voices.'
Elle

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J. M. Coetzee - Diary of a Bad Year nou-noutza!

J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. He has won many other literary awards, including the Booker Prize (twice), the Lannan Literary Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and South Africa's premier literary award, the CNA Prize.

"The miracle of the book is that it is deeply involving, wryly funny, and perfectly easy to read..." Hilary Mantel, The New York Review of Books (read the entire New York Review of Books review)

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nishte margaret atwood:
ATWOOD, Margaret - Wilderness Tips
ATWOOD, Margaret - Oryx and Crake
ATWOOD, Margaret -The Penelopiad
ATWOOD, Margaret - Good Bones and Simple Murders (short works)
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Mary ROACH - Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

The study of sexual physiology—what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better—has been going on for centuries, behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, Alfred Kinsey's attic, and, more recently, MRI centers, pig farms, and sex-toy R&D labs. I spent two years wheedling and conniving my way behind those doors to bring you the answers to the questions Dr. Ruth never asked. Is your penis three inches longer than you think? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Can a dead man get an erection? Why doesn't Viagra help women—or, for that matter, pandas?

* New York Times Top 10 Bestseller
* San Francisco Chronicle #1 Bestseller
* Booksense Independent Bestseller
* New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
* Publisher's Weekly 2008 Staff Picks
* San Francisco Chronicle Best Books of 2008
* St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Books of 2008
* Boston Sunday Globe Top 5 Science Books
* Seed magazine, Outstanding Books of 2008

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finally: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture - Douglas Coupland

The novel popularized the term Generation X, which refers to Americans and Canadians who reached adulthood in the late 1980s. It is a framed narrative, in which a group of youths exchange heartfelt stories about themselves and fantastical stories of their creation.

Thomas Pynchon - Curcubeul gravitației


De pe site-ul editurii, ghidușa prezentare:
”Titlul romanului Curcubeul gravitatiei se refera la arcul de fum pe care il lasa in urma rachetele V2 si totodata – in viziune parodica, neagra – la semnul pe care i‑l trimite Dumnezeu lui Noe cind ii promite ca nu va mai distruge niciodata omenirea. Tyrone Slothrop, protagonistul, este militar in Londra anului 1944 si are o problema bizara: de cite ori se simte excitat, explodeaza o bomba. Superiorii sai din cadrul armatei il tin sub observatie, incercind sa gaseasca explicatia acestui straniu feno­men. Dar asta este doar o piesa a marelui puzzle si, asa cum aflam curind, fiecare eveniment din intriga infinit de complicata a romanului, oricit de izolat ar parea, este conectat la o retea de dimensiuni colosale, telul suprem fiind acela de a arunca lumea in aer cu o ultima racheta devastatoare. Ca intotdeauna in cartile lui Pynchon, nu exista un singur fir narativ, o singura poveste, ci o proliferare de personaje si evenimente care tortureaza si fascineaza cititorul cu sugestii, referinte, calambururi si bancuri, punindu‑i la incercare puterea de intelegere.” Așa e, îhî.


Coperta este retardă, cu un avion japonez (wtf???) lansînd o racheta (de 2 ori wtf?). Nici o legătură cu romanul sau cu limitările tehnologiei aeronautice. Demisia.
Un roman care stă între Ulise și The Illuminatus! Trilogy merita ceva mai bun.

nu shtiu daca emoticoanele pot sa redea portzia de râs ce-am tras. of, mäi Fu Manchu... adevär gräieshti.
pentru cine doreshte lectura-n original, se poate servi din colectzia mea de pe scribd (la descarcat shi citit online): Pynchon, Thomas - Gravity's Rainbow.

shi iata shi minunata coperta a colectziei penguin book.

raspuns la cerere:
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aici: puhoi de ortega y gasset in spaniola (nefolositor, nu?)

în engleza gratis, exista doar:

“Man, as Project,” by Ortega y Gasset - articol, 19 pag
Ortega y Gasset - The Revolt of the Masses
uite-o shi-n germana: Der Aufstand der Massen (pt cine o avea nevoie)


"Studies About Love" gratis exista doar in spaniola.
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gasit în românä, de Jose Ortega Y Gasset, urmatoarele -
"Dezumanizarea artei si alte eseuri" (fishier txt., copie dupa cartea aparuta la humanitas)
online pe wattpad

shi

"Idei si credinte si alte eseuri" (EDITURA ŞTIINŢIFICĂ Bucureşti, 1999)
In al doilea, la pag 142 gaseshti "Femeia şi corpul său [Podoabă, iubire şi erotism]" shi imediat dupa... "Studii despre inimă" (151). ciudat e ca sunt doar 17 pagini. "estudios sobre el amor" are 133. daca nu-tzi trebuie foarte urgent, ma ofer sa compar textele, sa-tzi dau raportu shi, daca e nevoie, sa traduc în româna ce-ai nevoie. (daca vreau, scriu corect, cu totzi "i"-i necesari & fara sh, tz... promit. )
online, pe wattpad

ambele se pot descarca de pe cel mai extins site romanesc de ebooks gratis, fostu digibook, actualu freebooks:

iuzer: freebook
parola: freebook

dak ai fo problema de download, tzi le zvârl in mail.

nu încercatzi sa accesatzi lincurile scribd... cel putzin o perioada... pâna-i fac din vorbe.

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ceva am obtzinut: yo tot n-am acces la contu ly sydneywell de pe scribd, da linkurile functzioneaza iarashi. (nu shtiu pt cat timp). deci daca avetzi de downloadat, acu-i momentu.