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A night to remember
In 1898 a struggling author named Morgan Robertson concocted a novel about a fabulous Atlantic liner, far larger than any that had ever been built. Robertson loaded his ship with rich and complacent people and then wrecked it one cold April night on an iceberg. This somehow showed the futility of everything, and in fact, the book was called ( Read more... ) -
Is pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy & look snooty at a party
Sunday 15 October. 8:55 a.m. Just nipped out for fags prior to getting changed ready for BBC Pride and Prejudice. (...) The basis of my own addiction, I know, is my simple human need for Darcy to get off with Elizabeth. Tom says football guru Nick Hornby says in his book that men's obsession with football is no vicarious. The testosterone-crazed ( Read more... ) -
Si existe algo que me haga releer Jane Eyre por voluntad propia, es esto
¿POR QUÉ NO TODOS LOS LIBROS SON COMO THE EYRE AFFAIR? Las sesenta páginas más entretenidas que he leído en un buen rato. Desde To say nothing of the dog, probablemente* ¡Es que nada tiene sentido! La realidad alternativa, los detectives, el enemigo, la ChronoGuard... es tan disparatado que por un instante suspende la capacidad de sorprenderse y te ( Read more... ) -
Ooootra vez
Digo esto cada dos o tres días, pero creo que es necesario repetirlo constantemente, a ver si un día de estos me entra de una vez por todas en la cabeza: No puedo leer más de dos libros al mismo tiempo. Tres, si uno es de cuentos y los otros dos tratan de temas completamente distintos. Y, aún así, debería comenzarlos más o menos al mismo tiempo y ( Read more... ) -
The Life of Charlotte Brontë
(January 12th, 1848) Why do you like Miss Austen so very much? I am puzzled on that point. What induced you to say that you would have rather written Pride and Prejudice, or Tom Jones, than any of the Waverley Novels?
I had not seen Pride and Prejudice till I read that sentence of yours, and the I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate, ( Read more... ) -
My father was a man. I think I understand the sex.
They only joined issue to dispute whether llamas were carnivorous animals or not; in which dispute they were not quite on fair grounds, as Mrs. Forrester acknowledged that she always confused carnivorous and graminivorous together, just as she did horizontal and perpendicular; but then she apologized for it very prettily, by saying that in her day ( Read more... ) -
Consumismo janeite
Quiero todos estos libros (!):
- Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons & Sanditon (Oxford Univ Pr). O podría comprarme Sanditon & Thw Watsons: Austen's unfinished novels que es más barato, pero la portada no es tan linda y no tengo NA ni Lady Susan en inglés...
- Jane Austen & Joan Aiken - The Watsons and Emma Watson: Jane Austen ( Read more... ) -
*inserte aquí sonrisa de tres metros*
¡Llegó! ¡Llegó, llegó, llegó! :D
Según distintos testigos en una ECM (Experiencia Cercana a la Muerte) parece haber varios elementos nucleares: experiencia extracorporal, sonido, un túnel de altas paredes, una luz al final del túnel, parientes fallecidos, una sensación de paz y una revisión de la vida, una revelación de conocimiento universal y la ( Read more... )
