Tag: book recommendation
Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James: review – Telegraph Well, yes, sometimes it occurs that mass enthusiasm convinces me that something’s worth reading or simply I just give in to my curiousity. It was a little of both this time and my feelings are quite ambivalent. Most of all, I was sort of prepared that the language doesn’t reach literary quality, but it was way below my expectations even this way. I know it’s pulp fiction and I shouldn’t expect it to be like quality literature, but for me it was like one of those teenager hit stories, written…
Powell Was More Skeptical About Iraq Than Previously Thought, Annan Says Then-Secretary of State Colin L. Powell was more skeptical about the evidence he used to justify the American-led invasion than previously known, according to a new memoir by Kofi Annan. Kofi Annan’s memoir is about to come out next week! Can’t wait!
Könyv: Hotel Bali (Fejős Éva) summer ends, light summer reading continues…
P. G. Wodehouse: Big Money This and P. G. Wodehouse novels in general were recommended to me many years ago. This one actually sat on my shelf for years and somehow I never found the right time to pick it. I am glad I did now, during my week off of the summer, it is a perfect holiday read! I am not that much of a fan of so called English humor, not in books, neither in movies, but once in a while this kind of storytelling can really relax one’s mind. For Hungarian readers I have to note that…
Bohumil Hrabal: I Served the King of England This was the first ever book from Hrabal I read. I have seen the movies ’Closely Observed Trains’ and ’Cutting It Short’, but somehow I assumed I wouldn’t like his style. I was wrong. This one is wonderfully written, and although it doesn’t seem that way, it has a lively flow, and really good editing. Now I am about to watch the movie sometime, made by Jirí Menzel in 2006.
Könyv: A Mór megtette… (Dr. Kovács Lajos) És egy korábbi Dr. Kovács Lajostól: A halálnak élve Mindkettő letehetetlen!
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people. Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)
European Parliament’s members summer reading recommendations
Könyv: Egy őrült őrgrófnő naplója (Pallavicini Zita) Érdekes (nem csak jó értelemben, sőt). Szerencsére nem túl hosszú…
Illyés Gyula: Puszták népe “Nagyapa annyira református volt, ami arrafelé a templombúvó katolikusokkal szemben elsősorban a felvilágosodás, a szabad szellem hitét jelentette, hogy templomba se járt. Lelkivilága csodálatosképpen olyan rendben volt, hogy isten vagy a halál fogalma egyszerűen nem is foglalkoztatta. Olvasott. Szelleme, amely valójában csak ekkor bontakozhatott ki, megdöbbentő függetlenségről tett tanúságot. Most visszaemlékezve ámulok el rajta igazán. Csak egy jelenetet, közbevetően. Egyetlen ünnepet tartott, a kálvinisták nagy ünnepét, nagypénteket. Ezt is hagyományból persze. Nagyapa hetven éven át minden nagypénteken böjtölt, az ősök iránti tiszteletből. Egész addig, míg egy nagypénteken, amelyet véletlenül náluk töltöttem, nem figyelmeztettem a következetlenségre. "Ha…
