Doa
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.
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.
A very well-written story about nighttime in Tokyo and how it's completely different, full of violence and intersecting life paths. People change once the light comes out as if a new page in a book has been turned over. I love it.
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.
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.