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2005-03-15
1:18 PM

Plato

one of the greatest greek philosophers, a student and THE source to Socrates philosophy and life
Republic -- basic question is ask what is Justice, ventures into virtues such as wisdom courage moduration... society, citizen etc

Phaedo -- introduces Forms discusses immortality of the soul

In 'Crito: The Individual and the State' he depicts Socrates final days and returns to the topic of justice, morals, responsibility etc

2005-03-15
1:32 PM

Aristotle

Aristotle's effics

while Aristotle was a student of Plato his views were a bit different than his teacher's. For instance Aristotle believed that you can find universal qualities in particular things while Plato believed that material things are only shadows of true reality, which exists among ideas and forms.

Aristotle's Effics addresswes the nature of the good life for a human being.

2005-03-04
10:18 AM

Nosov, Nikolai

The mites of Flower Town (Dunno's adventures)
Dunno in Sunny Town
Dunno on the Moon
"Dunno never could do anything right. He never got beyond reading in syllables, and he could only write printed letters. Some people said his head was empty, but that was not true, because he could not have thought at all if it had been empty"

fabulous russian story definitely a must for all kids!

2005-03-04
10:55 AM

Golon, Serge and Anne - Angelique

Angйlique, The Marquise of the Angels (Angйlique, Marquise des Anges)
Angйlique, the road to Versailles (Angйlique, le Chemin de Versailles)
Angйlique and the King (Angйlique et le Roy)
Angйlique and the Sultan also known as Angйlique in Barbary (Indomptable Angйlique)
Angйlique in Revolt (Angйlique se rйvolte)
Angйlique in Love (Angйlique et son Amour)
The Countess Angйlique (Angйlique et le Nouveau Monde)
The Temptation of Angйlique (La Tentation d'Angйlique)
Angйlique and the Demon (Angйlique et la Dйmone)
Angйlique and the Ghosts (Angйlique et le Complot des Ombres)
Angйlique а Quйbec (not translated yet)
Angйlique, la Route de l'Espoir (not translated yet)
La Victoire d'Angйlique

one of my absolutely favorite romantic novels loosely based on French history (Sun King and such)

2005-03-04
11:13 AM

Pelevin, Viktor

ok i dont' like him
it is very popular to read him, i know, but i tried and tried and just ddin't like it
he's very dark
Omon Ra -- gruesome nightmare
Chapaev and Emptiness -- senseless
A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories -- liked those specially : "Hermit and the six-fingered" it's great

2005-03-04
2:42 PM

Pasternak, Boris

Doctor Zhivago -- have to admit it was a difficult read for me. I started a number of times, dropped it and began again several years later. I did finish it and it's an awesome book, just not my favorite

Poetry -- on the other hand his poems are delicious. I like his ease with words

From МАРБУРГ

Я вздрагивал. Я загорался и гас.
Я трясся. Я сделал сейчас предложенье,-
Но поздно, я сдрейфил, и вот мне - отказ.
Как жаль ее слез! Я святого блаженней.
.......


Любить иных - тяжелый крест
А ты прекрасна без извилин,
И прелести твоей секрет
Разгадке жизни равносилен.

Весною слышен шорох снов
И шелест новостей и истин.
Ты из семьи таких основ.
Твой смысл, как воздух, бескорыстен.

Легко проснуться и прозреть,
Словесный сор из сердца вытрясть
И жить, не засоряясь впредь,
Все это - не большая хитрость.

*****************
Красавица моя, вся стать
Вся суть твоя мне по сердцу,
Вся рвется музыкою стать,
И вся на рифмы просится.

А в рифмах умирает рок,
И правдой входит в наш мирок
Миров разноголосица.

И рифма - не вторенье строк,
А гардеробный номерок,
Талон на место у колонн
В загробный гул корней и лон.

И в рифмах дышит та любовь,
Что тут с трудом выносится,
Перед которой хмурят бровь
И морщат переносицу.

И рифма не вторенье строк,
Но вход и пропуск за порог,
Чтоб сдать, как плащ за Фляшкою,
Болезни тягость тяжкую,
Боязнь огласки и греха
За громкой бляшкою стиха.

Красавица моя, вся суть,
Вся стать твоя, красавица,
Спирает грудь и тянет в путь.
И тянет петь и - нравится.

Тебе молился Поликлет.
Твои законы изданы.
Твои законы в далях лет.
Ты мне знакома издавна.

2005-03-02
12:50 AM

McCullough, Colleen - The Thorn Birds

gone with the wind, thorn birds both belong to the same category of books to be read and reread over and over again.
a classic
movie as well one of my favorites!
"A Coming of age story of a young austrailian girl in a forbidden love affair. "

11/02/06 - rereading it now. some things are just soo classic. now having seen the movie (i actually liked the actors and the direction) i can't help but visualize the scenes from it.

another thought that occured to me like with many other books that i've read as a child. When you reread it later on the meaning of things is so different. YOu pay attention to different things than when you were a child.

Whatever happened to Luke? And Justine. And Frank? Franks character was so well developed in the begining but droped off and never really mentioned him again.

2005-03-02
2:34 PM

Olesha, Yury

1988-1960
just finished reading "Lubov'", wonderfully abstract, imaginative, full of beautiful imagery...

thumbs up!

2005-03-02
2:42 PM

Grin , Alexander -- Stories

<a href="http://home.wanadoo.nl/scarletsails/Alie Parusa"> To read</a>

(Scarlet Sails)

Synopsis of the movie from NY Times:
"This "prince charming" tale is adapted from a novel by Alexander Grin about a little girl named Assol, who meets a wizard one day. He tells her that a ship with red sails will arrive -- sometime in the future -- to take her away to a new, happy life with a dashing young prince. She holds onto this prediction in spite of taunts and the ridicule of her neighbors. Meanwhile, the son of a local nobleman grows up to become a sea captain and falls in love with Assol. Sure enough, he decides the only way to win her heart is to unfurl red sails and head into port"
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still gives me chills beautiful beuatiful story!


Blestajushij Mir (THE SHINING WORLD)

another beautiful and sad story about the man who could fly...

2005-03-02
3:03 PM

Block, Alexander

one of the greatest russian poets contemporary of Axmatova.
1880-1921

DELUSION

An empty alley. Swift streamlets running...
"It's spring!" they mutter, A girl shrieks with laughter.
A drunken red dwarf dances up. That's funny!
He won't let her pass. What's the old thing after?

The girl's in a fright. Pulls her kerchief tighter.
The sun's behind a chimney. The dwarf, a red ball,
Jumps into a puddle. With wrinkled hand, lightly
He plays with the water. It's evenfall.

Reflections beckon. The girl feels chilly.
A street lamp winks afar off... Oh, look!С
The red sun has sunk behind a building.
Wild laughter. Splashes. Factory smoke.

Sounds, indistinct ones, floating nearer...
An old man coughs... Water drips... A pair
Of dilated eyes with no pupils in them.
Two cold, lifeless hands clutching the air.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

A shapeless wet bundle С Wretched! HomelessiС
She lies by a fence in the scary dark.
Don't let the night end!.. Her weeping is toneless.
A disgrace to return with the devil's mark.

Overturned tubs. In the streamlets merrily
The blueness dances. It's morning anew.
Red chevaux-de-frise. Soldiers cheerily
Splashing through the water: left, right! one, two!

The girl lies asleep by the fence. A hairy
Head with a mutter bends over her. Boo!
The ugly old dwarf is busy, very:
He's sailing shoes in the stream: one, two!

The shoes spin along, but are soon overtaken
By a red cap. See it? There it floats.
Wild laughter. Splashes. In the cap's wake come
A beard, a dog's ears, and a red tail coat.

They rush past. What's the water murmuring?
The girl slowly wakes, in her eyes red-blue rings.
Sun beams playing, water shimmering.
Streams, sprays and spurts of it. Spring. Spring. Spring.
=========


К Музе

Есть в напевах твоих сокровенных
Роковая о гибели весть.
Есть проклятье заветов священных,
Поругание счастия есть.

И такая влекущая сила,
Что готов я твердить за молвой,
Будто ангелов ты низводила,
Соблазняя своей красотой...

И когда ты смеешься над верой,
Над тобой загорается вдруг
Тот неяркий, пурпурово-серый
И когда-то мной виденный круг.

Зла, добра ли? - Ты вся - не отсюда.
Мудрено про тебя говорят:
Для иных ты - и Муза, и чудо.
Для меня ты - мученье и ад.

Я не знаю, зачем на рассвете,
В час, когда уже не было сил,
Не погиб я, но лик твой заметил
И твоих утешений просил?
Я хотел, чтоб мы были врагами,
Так за что ж подарила мне ты
Луг с цветами и твердь со звездами -
Всё проклятье своей красоты?

И коварнее северной ночи,
И хмельней золотого аи,
И любови цыганской короче
Были страшные ласки твои...

И была роковая отрада
В попираньи заветных святынь,
И безумная сердцу услада -
Эта горькая страсть, как полынь!


2005-03-02
3:25 PM

Stuff to add

wizard rules Terry Goodkind

Kir Bulichyov

Рассказы Николая Носова
Приключения Коли и Миши http://lukoshko.net/menunos.shtml

Prishvin http://lukoshko.net/menupris.shtml

Chukovskiy http://lukoshko.net/menuchuk.shtml

Mihalkov http://lukoshko.net/menumih.shtml

Marshak http://lukoshko.net/menumars.shtml


Barto http://lukoshko.net/menubart.shtml

Ershov - Konyok Gorbunok

al'tovgenrix oslik i oksioma !!!
pesax rafaelovch aginuel' ludi koda!!!! kabalist!!
marquiz de sad justine
Boris Polevoi -- Повесть о настоящем человеке
A Story About a Real Man
Ivan Efremov Туманность Андромеды
Andromeda
Alexander and Sergei Abramov Всадники ниоткуда
Horsemen from Nowhere
Valentin Kataev Цветик-Семицветик
Rainbow-Flower
Nikolai Nosov Веселая семейка
Jolly Family
Yuri Olesha Три толстяка The Three Fat Men
Lazar Lagin Старый джин Хоттабыч (Старик Хоттабыч)
Old Genie Hottabych
Anatoly Rybakov Кортик
The Dirk Adventures. Russian Revolution. Class struggle motivated. Word 6 in Rar archive.
Anatoly Rybakov
The Bronze Bird Бронзовая птица
Timur and His Squad Тимур и его команда Arkady Gaidar The young pioneers helping the people around. One of the leading propaganda books in the USSR. Word 6 in Rar archive. 82,1 kb.



robertson
Вересковый мед В библиотеку
© Роберт Л. Стивенсон
перевел С. Маршак
Из вереска напиток
Забыт давным-давно,
А был он слаще меда,
Пьянее, чем вино.

В котлах его варили
И пили всей семьей
Малютки-медовары
В пещерах под землей.

Пришел король шотландский
Безжалостный к врагам.
Погнал он бедных пиктов
К скалистым берегам.

На вересковом поле
На поле боевом
Лежал живой на мертвом
И мертвый на живом.

Лето в стране настало,
Вереск опять цветет,
Но некому готовить
Вересковый мед.

В своих могилах тесных
В горах родной земли
Малютки-медовары
Приют себе нашли.

Король по склону едет
Над морем на коне,
А рядом реют чайки
С дорогой наравне.

Король глядит угрюмо
И думает: "Кругом
Цветет медовый вереск,
А меда мы не пьем."

Но вот его вассалы
Заметили двоих -
Последних медоваров,
Оставшихся в живых.

Вышли они из-под камня,
Щурясь на белый свет, -
Старый горбатый карлик
И мальчик пятнадцати лет.

К берегу моря крутому
Их привели на допрос,
Но никто из пленных
Слова не произнес.

Сидел король шотландский
Не шевелясь в седле,
А маленькие люди
Стояли на земле.

Гневно король промолвил:
- Плетка обоих ждет,
Если не скажете, черти,
Как вы готовите мед!

Сын и отец смолчали,
Стоя у края скалы.
Вереск шумел над ними,
В море катились валы.

И вдруг голосок раздался:
- Слушай, шотландский король,
Поговорить с тобою
С глазу на глаз позволь.

Старость боится смерти,
Жизнь я изменой куплю,
Выдам заветную тайну, -
Карлик сказал королю.

Голос его воробьиный
Резко и четко звучал.
- Тайну давно бы я выдал,
Если бы сын не мешал.

Мальчику жизни не жалко,
Гибель ему ни по чем.
Мне продавать свою совесть
Совестно будет при нем.

Пусть его крепко свяжут
И бросят в пучину вод
И я научу шотландцев
Готовить старинный мед.

Сильный шотландский воин
Мальчика крепко связал
И бросил в открытое море
С прибрежных отвесных скал.

Волны над ним сомкнулись,
Замер последний крик.
И эхом ему ответил
С обрыва отец-старик:

- Правду сказал я, шотландцы,
От сына я ждал беды,
Не верил я в стойкость юных,
Не бреющих бороды.

А мне костер не страшен,
Пусть со мною умрет
Моя святая тайна,
Мой вересковый мед.
Heather Ale
A GALLOWAY LEGEND
From the bonny bells of heather
They brewed a drink long-syne,
Was sweeter far then honey,
Was stronger far than wine.
They brewed it and they drank it,
And lay in a blessed swound
For days and days together
In their dwellings underground.

There rose a king in Scotland,
A fell man to his foes,
He smote the Picts in battle,
He hunted them like roes.
Over miles of the red mountain
He hunted as they fled,
And strewed the dwarfish bodies
Of the dying and the dead.

Summer came in the country,
Red was the heather bell;
But the manner of the brewing
Was none alive to tell.
In graves that were like children's
On many a mountain head,
The Brewsters of the Heather
Lay numbered with the dead.

The king in the red moorland
Rode on a summer's day;
And the bees hummed, and the curlews
Cried beside the way.
The king rode, and was angry,
Black was his brow and pale,
To rule in a land of heather
And lack the Heather Ale.

It fortuned that his vassals,
Riding free on the heath,
Came on a stone that was fallen
And vermin hid beneath.
Rudely plucked from their hiding,
Never a word they spoke;
A son and his aged father --
Last of the dwarfish folk.

The king sat high on his charger,
He looked on the little men;
And the dwarfish and swarthy couple
Looked at the king again.
Down by the shore he had them;
And there on the giddy brink --
"I will give you life, ye vermin,
For the secret of the drink."

There stood the son and father,
And they looked high and low;
The heather was red around them,
The sea rumbled below.
And up and spoke the father,
Shrill was his voice to hear:
"I have a word in private,
A word for the royal ear.

"Life is dear to the aged,
And honour a little thing;
I would gladly sell the secret,"
Quoth the Pict to the king.
His voice was small as a sparrow's,
And shrill and wonderful clear:
"I would gladly sell my secret,
Only my son I fear.

"For life is a little matter,
And death is nought to the young;
And I dare not sell my honour
Under the eye of my son.
Take him, O king, and bind him,
And cast him far in the deep;
And it's I will tell the secret
That I have sworn to keep."

They took the son and bound him,
Neck and heels in a thong,
And a lad took him and swung him,
And flung him far and strong,
And the sea swallowed his body,
Like that of a child of ten; --
And there on the cliff stood the father,
Last of the dwarfish men.

"True was the word I told you:
Only my son I feared;
For I doubt the sapling courage
That goes without the beard.
But now in vain is the torture,
Fire shall never avail:
Here dies in my bosom
The secret of Heather Ale."

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Baratynsky E.A.
Batyushkov K.N.
Benediktov V.
Del'vig A.
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Grebeonka E.
Griboedov A.
Grigoriev A.A.
Koltsov A.
Krylov I.
Kuyhelbeker V.
Maykov A.
Mey L.
Nekrasov N.
Ogarev N.
Pavlova K.
Pleshcheev A.
Polonsky Y.
Rostopchina E.
Soloviev V.S.
Surikov I.
Tyutchev F.
Yazykov N.M.
Zhukovsky V.
Zhemchuzhnikov A.









2005-03-02
4:28 PM

Turgenev, Ivan

if you read anything read turgenev.

First Love
Asya
-- two stories i read as a teenager, beautiful, touching



Mumu

didn't like Mumu, too sad. Had to read it for school
Reason being is his love for life's tragedy's. And tragedy is one thing, but when you read as a child about Gerasim drowning pour Mumu because his boss tells him to it leaves a mark. I just think that his stories should be read at a much much much older age. When one can understand the world around a little better.

2005-03-02
4:44 PM

Lindgren,Astrid

Karlson who lived on the roof
should be read by every child
it's genius
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter --
this book is not known to many for some strange reason it's about a girl who's the daughter of a robber (they live in a castle) she roams the forest means the son of the rival robber (romeo and juliette?) they roam the forest together.
genius

The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
-- wasn't too crazy about it. Not too many things made sense to me... like how can a girl live by herself AND carry a horse
didn't like it

2005-03-02
4:57 PM

London, Jack

people of Abyss
when god laughs
White Fang

-- read when i was a child... barely remember. Remember it was good, but don't feel like rereading it now... why?

2005-03-02
5:02 PM

Machiavelli, Niccolo - The Prince

1469-1527
i was curious to see why so many people claim that The Prince is their 'favorite book' (especially men) and i still am. I read the book. Painfully, forcefeeding myself this dry narrative. Yes Machiavelli is a brilliant politician, but this guide (that's what it is it's a guide) is directed towards a very specific niche - Renassaince politics. Why in the world would someone want to read this today i fail to understand.

So please inlighten me!

2005-03-02
5:10 PM

Malory, Sir Thomas - Morte Darthur (some)

NOT AN EASY READ think old english

but lovely it's all about king Arthur and Merlin and Sir Gawain and of course Guenever
it's all courtship and stuff
Basically it is the source of the Arthurian legends as we know them today
consists of eight tales in 507 chapters in 21 books

2005-03-02
5:34 PM

Marie de France - Lais

marie de France is a female author in the day when few women were literate... not only that she wronte in vernacular (French/English) rather than in Latin
not much is known about her we can only guess from her work what she was about
Her stories are written for entertainment and are of romance and adventure providing an interesting perspective on courtly love.

read in one of my english classes good

2005-03-02
5:42 PM

Mayakovsky - Poetry

Britannica : "born July 7 [July 19, New Style], 1893, Bagdadi, Georgia, Russian Empire--
died April 14, 1930, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.

the leading poet of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and of the early Soviet period. At the age of 15 Mayakovsky joined the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party and was repeatedly jailed for subversive activity... Mayakovsky
sought to "depoetize" poetry, adopting the crude language of the man in the street and using the most daring technical innovations. Above all, his poetry is declamatory, for mass audiences.... etc"

Listen!

Listen,
if stars are lit
it means - there is someone who needs it.
It means - someone wants them to be,
that someone deems those specks of spit
magnificent.
And overwrought,
in the swirls of afternoon dust,
he bursts in on God,
afraid he might be already late.
In tears,
he kisses God's sinewy hand
and begs him to guarantee
that there will definitely be a star.
He swears
he won't be able to stand that starless ordeal.
Later,
He wanders around, worried,
but outwardly calm.
And to everyone else, he says:
'Now,
it's all right.
You are no longer afraid,
are you?'
Listen,
if stars are lit,
it means - there is someone who needs it.
It means it is essential
that every evening
at least one star should ascend
over the crest of the building.
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Послушайте!

Послушайте!
Ведь, если звезды зажигают -
значит - это кому-нибудь нужно?
Значит - кто-то хочет, чтобы они были?
Значит - кто-то называет эти плевочки
жемчужиной?
И, надрываясь
в метелях полуденной пыли,
врывается к богу,
боится, что опоздал,
плачет,
целует ему жилистую руку,
просит -
чтоб обязательно была звезда! -
клянется -
не перенесет эту беззвездную муку!
А после
ходит тревожный,
но спокойный наружно.
Говорит кому-то:
"Ведь теперь тебе ничего?
Не страшно?
Да?!"
Послушайте!
Ведь, если звезды
зажигают -
значит - это кому-нибудь нужно?
Значит - это необходимо,
чтобы каждый вечер
над крышами
загоралась хоть одна звезда?!

1914


2005-03-02
6:05 PM

Melville, Herman - Moby Dick

read as a child
something ... ships... something something whale.... god knows
dont' feel like rereading it
fully aware of the conflicts and symbolism etc etc behind it just don't want to read it. period

2005-03-02
6:08 PM

Miller, Arthur

ohhh boy i didn't even realize how much i like this guy and that all this stuff is by him:

Plays:
The Crucible -- if anyone doesn't know it go read it now!
(key words: massachussets , witch hunts... ) based on real life events
Death of A Salesman -- DID NOT LIKE IT
too dramatic, too sad to watch the family decline
of course powerfully written thus the doomed effect.
A View from the Bridge -- another brilliant family drama, love betrayel all in one... set in ny, italian immigrants
All My Sons -- set in the post WWII it's what? another family drama... wrong choices, secrets etc...

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