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What is a classic? I like Italo Calvino's poetic definition best: A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. Here are three such books that I highly recommend to anyone, and everyone. The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov The blurb: Mikhail Bulgakov's devastating satire of Soviet life… Continue reading Three immensely readable classics
For several years, I've made it one of my missions to read "old books", meaning all those classics I'd read about and heard about, and maybe even read excerpts from when I was in school. My main criterion for these "old books" was that in order to count, they had to be REALLY old: as… Continue reading 8 classics I enjoy reading, a lot
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste. A great quote by the always quotable Voltaire. Today, November 21st, is his birthday. He was an irreverent and funny writer, and very good… Continue reading Happy birthday, Voltaire
