Doa
a very nicely written book with very good and clear language. it's an eye-opener to someone like me who knows nothing about such problems. I come from a completely different culture with different problems and different kinds of tensions between people.
What I don't agree with is that the writer is very much into himself saying he is smart and top of his class several times, very modest :D .
He also implies that blacks are smarter than “whites”. We shouldn't face white supremacy with black supremacy.
a short story by Dostoevsky, first complaining about how people are not interested in his ideas, how “abuse is accepted as wit”, and how publishers refuse his writings. He then goes out for a walk and joins this funeral, sits at the cemetery and listens to the dead converse. It's amazing! Bobok means a small bean but by it, he means possibly nothingness after death. We have a little life after death (the dead say that life continues with inertia after we die) but only for 3-6 months and then Bobok.
“... for life and lying are synonymous”. “you don't show your own wisdom by shutting someone else in a madhouse.”
the dead stop after he sneezes, and he concludes they are hiding something from the living and vows to continue to visit cemeteries and listen to more dead people to find out and get some reassurance.
in the end, he is not worried about Bobok but rather about the depravity, the debauchery that continues after death.
I have just finished it. It's a nice philosophical work inspired by Arabic/Persian stories. It even has a story inspired by the Quranic story of El-Khidr and the prophet Moses.
The story has serious flows ... anti-semitism + religious bigotry let alone the seriously problematic story of El-Khidr. I gave it 3 stars only because of the nice language. But for the story itself, I give it one star.
قصة بائسة عن اسرة مصرية مسيحية فقيرة الست فيها مغلوبة علي امرها بتتضرب كل يوم من جوزها بسبب ومن غير سبب ,,, مع ذكر جانبي لمشاكل المسيحيين الفقراء في مصر من المتطرفين والجهلاء من فقراء الشعب المسلمين هما كمان ... دايرة عنف كل واحد بيفرغ كبته فيمن هو اضعف منه. للاسف القصة مكتوبة باسلوب مسهب زياده عن اللزوم وكان ممكن اختصارها في نص الصفحات لو شيلنا كمية الاطناب المبالغ فيها ,,, انا كملت الكتاب بصعوبة وكنت بسرح في النص من كتر الاسهاب في الكتابه كنت بنسي خط القصة الاصلي ,,, بسبب اسلوب الكتابة بس اديت تقييم قليل ,,, لكن القصة جيدة واتمني للكاتب كل التوفيق ويكتب كتب اكتر بس يقلل من الاسهاب الشديد في الكتابه رجاء
A Dystopian post-apocalyptic absurd story with a very sad ending. Very well-written. Some people say it has hope but I can't see where it is. It's full of themes about the meanings of being human like the importance of passing cumulative knowledge, and leaving it in written form even if you were the last human standing and there was no hope of anybody reading it.
a short story by the controversial Haruki Murakami. A nicely written story as usual. The absurd part with some supernatural element was added as a story within a normal story. I always look for any clues of misogyny in Murakami's writings but couldn't find one in this one. so, I liked it but because it didn't stimulate much thinking in me, I am giving it 3 stars.
The first work of Franz Kafka that showed me he wasn't completely pessimistic. The story implies that evil and tyranny are self-destructive but stupid ignorant people can always bring them back and that we have to debar them always from any power to prevent tyrannic rulers from coming to power. I love the story and the ending. Franz Kafka is one of the greatest writers to have ever existed.
Socrates by Fracesco Barilli
The book is nice and has a lot of information about Greek mythology which I hadn't known before but reading it on Kindle was a real torture. I think comics should not be read on Kindle, the script is too small and zooming in is very dodgy. In general it's a nice comic book but avoid reading it on Kindle.
a nice book about 2 girls spending summer holidays somewhere on the beach with their families.
It's mainly about the coming of age of two young teenage girls. There is nothing special about the story and no complex plot. it's a nice read but not stimulating and didn't leave much impression on me, it's a nice easy read though.
كتاب ساخر لم يعجبني. مش عارفه هل فقدت احساسي بالسخرية المصرية بعد ما سيبت مصر ولا فعلا القصة مقرفة كما اراها!!!
بيحكي قصة شخص سافر فرنسا واعجبت بيه فتاه فرنسيه لانه من الجنس الحميري ,,, فاهمه ان الموضوع ساخر لكن ايه اللي يخلي حد اصلا يعجب بشخص يتصف بانه حمار؟؟!!! عاوز يثبت ايه بسخريته؟؟؟!!! لم افهمه ... وبعدين اشاره الي اقامة علاقة غير شرعية مع الفتاة بغرض انجاب طفل من الجنس الحميري بغرض انقاذ النوع الحميري ومع اعتراضه في البداية “لانه عيب” الا انه في النهاية وافق “لانه عادي عندهم” امعان في التنافر المعرفي اللي كان اهم سبب لتركي لمصر ,,, مافهمتش بردو مقصده ,,, الكتاب مضطرب ومليان شتيمه وسخرية من المصريين بدون تقديم حلول ,,, الكتابات دي كتيرة ... عرفنا اننا عندنا مشاكل ايه الحلول؟؟!! مفيش ,,, اتقفلت من الكتاب وماقدرتش اكمله وماستساغتش معناه ولا مقصده
The book teaches us about the reasons why some places developed civilisations way before others and why some never developed any civilisation at all and how this is not related to some humans being smarter or intellectually superior to others. It answers some questions I never even thought of like why Europeans conquered the Americas but the Native Americans never invaded Europe.
I understand some are bored with such ideas and want to get over the ideas of racism and cultural superiorities but unfortunately our world is still full of racism and bigotry and it's all due to ignorance. It's such books with such knowledge that opens up the eyes of blind racists and bigots.
it was nice to try something from a Chinese author about the Sci-Fi genre. A very rapid chain of events without many details. I liked it but I am not a big fan of this kind of fiction which is a bit too wild. I'd say it's easier to move people than to move the whole planet earth and wander with it in the universe looking for another star to hook up with. Even fiction should have some logic to it, right?
you either love it or hate it. I think this kind of book has no middle ground.
It's about “the law of attraction” which I think of as nonsense. I can relate to some of its ideas psychologically but not to the extent this book sells it to you that you can change the universe only by your thoughts. I can only take the part I like which is, always think positively and don't let others get to you, anything else is total nonsense.