06 Mar 15
I just finished reading Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game...quite possibly the best book I have read thus far...
Now I am reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera...both in English and Spanish...it is slow since my Spanish is horrendous, but the venture is helping my Spanish immensely.
06 Mar 15
Originally posted by hakimaI tried to find out how the glass bead game is played but had no luck. I found a site called "glass bead game --cosmic play in a symbolic universe' but I got bounced out, admin function would not let me go to the site they labeled as Cult/occult. Wow. I am going to try it on my home comp and see what happens. Don't like to be censored.
I just finished reading Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game...quite possibly the best book I have read thus far...
Now I am reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera...both in English and Spanish...it is slow since my Spanish is horrendous, but the venture is helping my Spanish immensely.
I see hesse won the 2943 Nobel Prize in literature for this work.
07 Mar 15
Originally posted by sonhouseIMO, Hesse intentionally shied away from delineating the glass bead game, in order to allow for the broad interior that occupies the games of the minds of each individual--including the most intellectual and rational of all.
I tried to find out how the glass bead game is played but had no luck. I found a site called "glass bead game --cosmic play in a symbolic universe' but I got bounced out, admin function would not let me go to the site they labeled as Cult/occult. Wow. I am going to try it on my home comp and see what happens. Don't like to be censored.
I see hesse won the 2943 Nobel Prize in literature for this work.
09 Mar 15
Originally posted by hakimaI guess should have said he won the 1943 prize🙂
IMO, Hesse intentionally shied away from delineating the glass bead game, in order to allow for the broad interior that occupies the games of the minds of each individual--including the most intellectual and rational of all.
10 Mar 15
Originally posted by hakimaThanks for reminding me of the title and author! I heard a radio reading/adaptation of the Glass Bead Game. It's an astoundingly good piece.
I just finished reading Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game...quite possibly the best book I have read thus far...
Now I am reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera...both in English and Spanish...it is slow since my Spanish is horrendous, but the venture is helping my Spanish immensely.
Meanwhile, I've just finished book ten of War and Peace, and am two-thirds through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (which is in long stretches like watching the 24-hour rolling news of a country I've never been to).
10 Mar 15
Originally posted by NoEarthlyReasonI read War and Peace one winter years ago...while exercising on a treadmill and stair climbing machine...amazing workouts.
Thanks for reminding me of the title and author! I heard a radio reading/adaptation of the Glass Bead Game. It's an astoundingly good piece.
Meanwhile, I've just finished book ten of War and Peace, and am two-thirds through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (which is in long stretches like watching the 24-hour rolling news of a country I've never been to).
...listened to Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on my commute to the college campus Where I am enrolled (I am an OLD student at 53)...there were sections I could not cope with as they drew too close too home for me...however, that was not the author's fault...a very good selection....
Currently, absorbed in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera...in English and Spanish--I think I already mentioned that...it is an enlightening venture...
10 Mar 15
Originally posted by hakimaLove in the Time of Cholera is such a great-sounding title that it can only be a good book (and the rave reviews help too). In my mind I pair it with The Painted Veil (I've seen the movie, not read it). But that's probably completely wrong. Is it set in South America?
I read War and Peace one winter years ago...while exercising on a treadmill and stair climbing machine...amazing workouts.
...listened to Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on my commute to the college campus Where I am enrolled (I am an OLD student at 53)...there were sections I could not cope with as they drew too close too home for me...however, that was not t ...[text shortened]... ra...in English and Spanish--I think I already mentioned that...it is an enlightening venture...
10 Mar 15
Originally posted by NoEarthlyReasonI don't know if The Painted Veil pairs with Love in the Time of Cholera (set in Columbia--another Nobel Prize winner), but I see it is written by Somerset Maugham...I have read two of his novels...The Razor's Edge and Of Human Bondage...both worth reading...
Love in the Time of Cholera is such a great-sounding title that it can only be a good book (and the rave reviews help too). In my mind I pair it with The Painted Veil (I've seen the movie, not read it). But that's probably completely wrong. Is it set in South America?
I purchased another of Marquez's novels One Hundred Years of Solitude...
So many books!