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Il cammino dell'uomo secondo l'insegnamento chassidico by Martin Buber 5*English edition: The Way of Man
A short, precious book that in my opinion can be read also by people who follow other religions (or also no religion at all).
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Mod
Girish wrote: "Quichotte is on my TBR list. adding the way of man to my list"The first one is a real page turner; the second one should be read very slowly.
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Scrittura cuneiforme di Kader Abdolah 1*English edition: My Father's Notebook: A Novel of Iran
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Iran (armchair travels IR 2021: 14/10)
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Con il passo del pellegrino by Jacques Nieuviarts 3*No English edition. It's a very short book that talks about pilgrimages.
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Un pappagallo volò sull'IJssel di Kader Abdolah 1*No English edtion.
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Netherlands (armchair travels IR 2021: 15/10)
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Ama e fai quello che vuoi by Elisa Fuksas 3*No English edition. In this book the author talks and explains her path from Atheism to Catholicism. At the end, at 40 years old, she decides to get baptized.
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
(Italy)
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Adelaide: imperatrice del lago by Ketty Magni 3*No English edition. It's a fictional biography about Adelaide of Italy, empress of the Holy Roman Empire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaid...
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Storia della mia vita by Teresa de Jesús 5*English edition: The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself
Spain (armchair travels IR 2021: 16/10)
(Snake&Ladders: "57. Book with less than 5 characters" (13/15)
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Stella Nera by Marco Freccero No Endlish edition. This is a re-read because I will soon start the second volume of the trilogy.
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Stella Nera: La promessa by Marco Freccero 3*Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Il contributo di Lavagnola alla guerra 1915-1918 nelle cronache de "Il Letrimbro" 4*There is no English edition. This book talks about the people of my neighborhood that left for WWI. It talks about how many had to leave, how many died, how many have been injured, etc. They received the newspaper of the town that had informations about local happenings, but also informations about other soldiers of the same district that were fighting in a different war zone. The book has also some nice photos. It was very sad to read about how young these soldiers were. The youngest soldier who died was only 19 years old.
review, Italian: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
(Snake&Ladders: "58. Dealing with death/after death" (14/15)
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La parabola degli eterni paesani by Luciano Cecchinel 2*No English edition.
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
(Snake&Ladders: "62. Love the cover , shall read the book" (15/15)
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Munnu. Un Ragazzo del Kashmir 4,5English edition: Munnu: A Boy From Kashmir
English review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
IR India challenge 2021: 4/5
Kashmir (armchair travels IR 2021: 17/10)
(Snake&Ladders: "64. Debut author" (16/15)
Pallab wrote: "hi If you are from Kolkata I need some info regarding De Sade and Nietzsche ...."I'm not from Kolkata, but if I can help despite my distance do let me know. Just ask and let's see if I can be helpful.
Pallab wrote: "sure ma'am just wondering if we can consider Sade as a precursor to Nietzsche ?"Wow, this is a difficult question (at least for me)! I try to share my opinion though I never studied literature in such a deep way and I have never read Nietzsche's books.
De Sade was a pretty sick man of the 18th century and for that time his philosophy (if it can be called philosophy) led him more than once in a psychiatric asylum or in prison. The sexual violence in his books is barely readable because he had a really sick and pervers idea of sex. If this is due to him being an atheist, I don't know. I never went in depth to find out more about his life. But knowing that the word "sadism" comes from his name (Sade), is enough to have an idea about what he wrote in his books.
About Nietzsche, he was by sure atheist and of the 19th century, so a completely different period and both have also different backgrounds: de Sade was French, Nietzsche German. Nietzsche is by sure famous for his nihilism and I never heard that he had perverted ideas about sex.
Nietzsche's philosophy has been important for the whole West and he is still studied at school as one of the main philosophers that influenced the 20th century. We can't say the same about de Sade. No one studies him at school and his "philosophy" is that of a sick man, not about a thinker as Nietzsche was.
Why do you think that de Sade could be a precursor of Nietzsche?
Pallab wrote: "because the concepts of moral relativity and Anti Christ are both promulgated in the books of De Sade"De Sade was immoral and blasphemous. In his books you find hate against God, zero respect towards the weak and needful, and he tries to destroy God with the immoral behaviour of his characters that hurt, torture and abuse of the weaks (above all children or teens, or even parents).
There is nothing similar in Nietzsche. He was an atheist, but he never talked about God in a disrespectful way as de Sade did and his characters are not as "sick" as de Sade's.
Have you read some books by de Sade or Nietzsche?
As previously said, I'm not an expert in literature or philosophy, so I can share only my opinion.
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Giligadu: The Lost Days by Chitra Mudgal 1*review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
IR India challenge 2021: 5/5
Mod
Giligadu: The Lost Days by Chitra Mudgal 1*review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
IR India ch..."
Thanks for this review. I started this when this ebook was made available for free by Niyogi Books.It was a DNF after 15% and I was reading some other books in parallel, and this book never gave me the feel to pick it up again among others.
Glad to see I did not miss much by choosing not to continue :)
Gorab wrote: "dely wrote: "35) Giligadu: The Lost Days by Chitra Mudgal 1*review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show......"
You didn't miss anything. If you read Girish's review, he explains better than me why it isn't worth to be read. The topic (children that should take care of their elderly father) could have been interesting, but both the characters and the events are not believable.
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Conversazioni Bibliche 1, Il libro della Genesi - volume 1 by Gianfranco Ravasi 2*No English edition. I thought it was a kind of introduction of the Bible, something easy for beginners, but I was wrong. It is recommended for people that already have a pretty deep knowledge of the Bible and in the case of this first volume of the Genesis.
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Nina sull'argine by Veronica Galletta 2*No English edition
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Italy
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Giacomo Minuto. Patriota garibaldino lavagnolese 3*No English edition. It's a very short booklet with some informations about a man of the city district where I live that fought with Giuseppe Garibaldi
Italy
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Il più grande uomo scimmia del Pleistocene by Roy Lewis 3,5*English edition: The Evolution Man: Or, How I Ate My Father
A funny book!
Africa
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Il Ciclope by Paolo Rumiz 4,5*No English edition. The author stays for 3 weeks in a lighthouse on a desert island (more than an island it's a reef) and he tells us about his stay there. He is such a good storyteller, that he is able to make you travel around the world but also in history staying reclused on that small island.
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My year in books: https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_i...Best book of the year because it taught me a lot:
E poi basta: Manifesto di una donna nera italiana
Loved this book, moved me to tears and I love this author:
Promise at Dawn
Books to read at least once a year:
Voci dal silenzio: Un viaggio tra gli eremiti d'Italia and
The Way of Man
Very deep book though the most hard book of 2021:
The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself
Author I really didn't like and that I won't read further:
Kader Abdolah. I've read two of his books, but it's nothing for me.
If I didn't add the English title it's because there is no English translation of that book.
Mod
Gorab wrote: "Congrats dely for a great year of reading. Cheers and best wishes for 2022."Thank you!
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Books mentioned in this topic
The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself (other topics)The Way of Man (other topics)
Voci dal silenzio: Un viaggio tra gli eremiti d'Italia (other topics)
E poi basta: Manifesto di una donna nera italiana (other topics)
Promise at Dawn (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Kader Abdolah (other topics)Paolo Rumiz (other topics)
Roy Lewis (other topics)
Giuseppe Garibaldi (other topics)
Veronica Galletta (other topics)
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English edition: Word into Silence: A Manual for Christian Meditation
Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...