July 2011
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Sun. July 3, 2011
Week Six: City of Thieves by Dave Benioff
36.8 pages per day
Week Five: The Plague by Albert Camus (7/10)
Nobel Prize winning author Albert Camus wrote ‘The Plague’ as an allegory to France’s suffering under the occupation of the German Nazis, and was published in 1947. His second novel (after the much more well-known story The Stranger), it was published a mere 5 years later.
Although it is not the first Camus book I have ever read, it was largely in part my favorite: Camus, even...
misterchu asked: Yes, on Mister Camus. I was adding his thoughts on despair this morning very early (a painting was not going well), but I prefer your choices.
Be well.
MC
Be well.
MC
June 2011
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“All we may regret is the town’s being so disposed that it turns its back...”
– The Plague
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“Certainly nothing is commoner nowadays than to see people working from morn til...”
– The Plague
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“Perhaps the easiest way of making a town’s acquaintance is to ascertain...”
– The Plague
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Suggestions!
Dear Readers:
I’m having a hard time picking out books already. There are just so many good ones to chose from, I would really love some reader submissions and suggestions. What’s your favorite book? What’s a book you think I should read? What’s a book you’d recommend to ANYONE? What’s a book you absolutely hate? (I’d love to write a scathing review.)
...
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Sun. June 19, 2011
(Sorry guys, I accidentally queued this post instead of posting it yesterday. My bad!)
Now Beginning: The Plague by Albert Camus
44 pages a day
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Week Four: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead...
Week Four: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard [6/10]
Knighted British playwright Tom Stoppard’s fourth play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, was three acts long and took me roughly three days to complete. I purposefully picked this play as a lighter work to read for week four, but though slender in size, this play is big in message.
As a general rule, I (as a...
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“Audiences know what to expect, and that is all they are prepared to believe in.”
– Player, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“No…no…not for us, not like that. Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game...”
– Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“But no one gets up after death – there is no applause – there is only silence...”
– Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“Our names shouted in a certain dawn…a message…a summons…There must have been a...”
– Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change...”
– Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“No boundaries have been defined, no inhibitions imposed. We have, for the while,...”
– Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“We are little men, we don’t know the ins and outs of the matter, there are...”
– Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“A compulsion towards philosophical introspection is his chief characteristic, if...”
– Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“‘I wish I was dead. (Considers the drop.) I could jump over the side. That...”
– Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“‘Not even England. I don’t believe in it anyway.’...”
– Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“So there’s an end to that – it’s commonplace: light goes with life,...”
– Player, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Completed
I just finished Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead for Week Four. The rest of the quotes for this week’s book are in the queue—review up tomorrow night. ^^;
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“We’ve traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly...”
– Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“‘There may be something in the letter to keep us going a bit.’...”
– Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“‘We’re not finished, then?’ (Rosencrantz)
‘Well,...”
– Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“It’s silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive...”
– Rosencrantz, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“And yet it doesn’t seem enough; to have breathed such significance. Can...”
– Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“Death followed by eternity…the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.”
– Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“Let us keep things in proportion. Assume, if you like, that they’re going...”
– Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“Wheels have been set in motion, and they have their own pace, to which we...”
– Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“‘Is he dead?’ (Rosencrantz)
‘Who knows?’ (Player)...”
– Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“‘But for God’s sake what are we supposed to do?!’...”
– Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“No, no, no…you’ve got it all wrong…you can’t act death. The fact of...”
– Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“There’s nothing more unconvincing than an unconvincing death.”
– Player, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“You scream and choke and sink to your knees, but it doesn’t bring death...”
– Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“All this strolling about is getting too arbitrary by half – I’m rapidly...”
– Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“I like to know where I am. Even if I don’t know where I am, I like to know...”
– Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“You understand, we are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what...”
– Player, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing...”
– Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“‘We only know what we’re told, and that’s little enough. And...”
– Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“‘Fire!’ (Rosencrantz)
‘Where?’ (Guildenstern)...”
– Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“‘Well…aren’t you going to change into your costume?’...”
– Player, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“The only beginning is birth and the only end is death – if you can’t count...”
– Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“We keep to our usual stuff, more or less, only inside out. We do on stage the...”
– Player, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the...”
– Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“‘What’s the first thing you remember?’ (Guildenstern)...”
– Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“The scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defense against the...”
– Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“‘I’m afraid.’ (Rosencrantz)
‘So am I.’...”
– Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“There’s a logic at work – it’s all done for you, don’t worry....”
– Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“Inside where nothing shows, I am the essence of a man spinning double-headed...”
– Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“Exactly, it’s a matter of asking the right questions and giving away as...”
– Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead