Saturday, June 28, 2008

Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor Frankl

Sounds way ahead of his time.

Monday, June 16, 2008

Honeymoon in Purdah

by Alison Wearing

Wow. I have to go to Iran.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

9 Stories

by J.D. Salinger

He's always fun to read, especially if you want to be miserable.

Monday, March 24, 2008

Quartet: Four Masterpieces of Great Fiction

by W. Somerset Maugham

A cheesy package (tired of reading masterpieces of regular fiction?) for some interesting stories. I read exactly enough of R.C. Sherriff's screenplays to know that they were terrible. Namely, the final scenes, in which Maugham's secret intention for all the endings to be happy was finally realized.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

So many proverbs! Imagine how awesome it would be if you talked like that. Also, colonialism WTF.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

Super cool. Try to find the translation I have: It is translated very directly from the original, which makes every sentence sound upside-down and backwards.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Scourge: the once and future threat of smallpox

by Jonathan B. Tucker

Interesting, and much less frightening than you would think.