palestine
Jedi Council Member
Hello,
I wanted to mention some of my favourite books! Most of them are blockbusters, and I think everyone knows them! But I love these books so much that I'm posting about them in case anyone wants to read something new.
Narnia - ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’: written by Clive Steple LEWIS, this is “archetypal” literature for children, but it's simply fascinating. Perhaps people who have read ‘Women Who Run With the Wolves’ appreciated the ‘authentic’ aspect of the tales. Here we have a tale that is quite similar, I would say: the basics are respected, and when I read Narnia, I feel like I'm reading a ‘real tale’. When we are little, we read a lot of tales, and we continue to do so afterwards. There are so many, and many of them are average in terms of quality. Over time, I had lost that feeling of a ‘real tale’ - and when I read Narnia, I rediscover that old spirit.
Harry Potter - Perhaps I don't need to introduce the work? My favourite opus is by far The Goblet of Fire, which I love to reread. I find that Harry Potter has a simple structure in terms of good guys and a bad guy. The template in the book is simple enough to identify with, and there is a layer of ‘magic’ and fantasy on top of that. The characters are very nice and very endearing.
The Lord of the Rings – well, here again, it's something very ‘classic’. I'm a fan of the Hobbits, I must say, and I sometimes open the book and read the beginning, when ‘everything is fine’. It's refreshing to see healthy, normal, good people interacting with each other and giving each other gifts.
Father Brown is a series of books written by Gilbert Keith CHESTERTON. He wrote others as well, and Father Brown is a clergyman who solves criminal mysteries for the most part. It is very easy to read and the writer is very talented.
When you read his books, you get the feeling that ‘this is real literature’ – and I get that feeling because the writing is both simple and communicates complex concepts. His books could be dismissed as ‘reading for simpletons’, but if you look closely, they are a microcosm of the world viewed through a very objective magnifying glass. That makes all the difference, in my opinion, and it makes G.K. Chesterton a very good writer, because he has a talent for writing and also for objective ideas. Often, we come across books with one interesting concept that is developed throughout the book. G.K. Chesterton, on the other hand, has ten, maybe twenty of these concepts. It is a veritable wealth of ideas.
It has been said that C.S. Lewis was J.R.R. Tolkien's mentor. I have also read that G.K. Chesterton was C.S. Lewis's mentor.
Here we have a whole team that wrote some great books – and I highly recommend reading G.K. Chesterton. I mentioned Harry Potter because I think it's a book that really enriches and stimulates the mind.
Recently, I wanted to watch a Lord of the Rings film after reading a few books. I had to stop watching the film because it didn't suit me anymore, not at all.
The film consists of non-stop action sequences. It's very disturbing and I was downright shocked. There are a lot of special effects – and it seems that Peter Jackson's speciality is putting action sequences end to end. I couldn't watch the film because it was too fast-paced and even hard on the mind – if I can describe it that way. It really made an impression on me, and it's something I didn't notice ten years ago. The effect was very striking.
It's probably my fault: I had given up on books a long time ago. There was a period of films during my teenage years, and I got into the habit of watching a film in the evening when I didn't know what to do. Since then, I've taken up reading again. I highly recommend it, because it's something we used to do when we were little, and it had become a kind of ‘muscle’. I was surprised to reconnect with this old muscle that I had forgotten, put aside.
I wanted to mention some of my favourite books! Most of them are blockbusters, and I think everyone knows them! But I love these books so much that I'm posting about them in case anyone wants to read something new.
Narnia - ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’: written by Clive Steple LEWIS, this is “archetypal” literature for children, but it's simply fascinating. Perhaps people who have read ‘Women Who Run With the Wolves’ appreciated the ‘authentic’ aspect of the tales. Here we have a tale that is quite similar, I would say: the basics are respected, and when I read Narnia, I feel like I'm reading a ‘real tale’. When we are little, we read a lot of tales, and we continue to do so afterwards. There are so many, and many of them are average in terms of quality. Over time, I had lost that feeling of a ‘real tale’ - and when I read Narnia, I rediscover that old spirit.
Harry Potter - Perhaps I don't need to introduce the work? My favourite opus is by far The Goblet of Fire, which I love to reread. I find that Harry Potter has a simple structure in terms of good guys and a bad guy. The template in the book is simple enough to identify with, and there is a layer of ‘magic’ and fantasy on top of that. The characters are very nice and very endearing.
The Lord of the Rings – well, here again, it's something very ‘classic’. I'm a fan of the Hobbits, I must say, and I sometimes open the book and read the beginning, when ‘everything is fine’. It's refreshing to see healthy, normal, good people interacting with each other and giving each other gifts.
Father Brown is a series of books written by Gilbert Keith CHESTERTON. He wrote others as well, and Father Brown is a clergyman who solves criminal mysteries for the most part. It is very easy to read and the writer is very talented.
When you read his books, you get the feeling that ‘this is real literature’ – and I get that feeling because the writing is both simple and communicates complex concepts. His books could be dismissed as ‘reading for simpletons’, but if you look closely, they are a microcosm of the world viewed through a very objective magnifying glass. That makes all the difference, in my opinion, and it makes G.K. Chesterton a very good writer, because he has a talent for writing and also for objective ideas. Often, we come across books with one interesting concept that is developed throughout the book. G.K. Chesterton, on the other hand, has ten, maybe twenty of these concepts. It is a veritable wealth of ideas.
It has been said that C.S. Lewis was J.R.R. Tolkien's mentor. I have also read that G.K. Chesterton was C.S. Lewis's mentor.
Here we have a whole team that wrote some great books – and I highly recommend reading G.K. Chesterton. I mentioned Harry Potter because I think it's a book that really enriches and stimulates the mind.
Recently, I wanted to watch a Lord of the Rings film after reading a few books. I had to stop watching the film because it didn't suit me anymore, not at all.
The film consists of non-stop action sequences. It's very disturbing and I was downright shocked. There are a lot of special effects – and it seems that Peter Jackson's speciality is putting action sequences end to end. I couldn't watch the film because it was too fast-paced and even hard on the mind – if I can describe it that way. It really made an impression on me, and it's something I didn't notice ten years ago. The effect was very striking.
It's probably my fault: I had given up on books a long time ago. There was a period of films during my teenage years, and I got into the habit of watching a film in the evening when I didn't know what to do. Since then, I've taken up reading again. I highly recommend it, because it's something we used to do when we were little, and it had become a kind of ‘muscle’. I was surprised to reconnect with this old muscle that I had forgotten, put aside.
