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Mirko B

Mirko B

"...I'll be the wind,
The rain and the sunset
The light on your door
To show that you're home"

(The Velvet Underground & Nico)

I'm coming from Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina and am about to graduate from college. I read books ever since I can remember. When I don't read, I write. I have published two...more »
  • Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina
  • member since Wednesday, November 7 2007

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  • Memoirs of a Geisha
    • Rated 5 stars

    “Golden's bestseller(Gosh how I hate that word) made me fall in love with Japan and its traditions and art. I remember, after reading the book, I went to the local library and copied everything on Japan that I could find. The overall book may be a somewhat Oprah's-book club-kind of fiction, but it's the small details that have won my sympathies, like Golden's meticulous description of Geisha's dressing ritual. I recommend this book- it's opening scene with the quiet garden view was amongst the most impressive opening sequences I ran across so far.”

    Mirko B wrote this review Thursday, March 20 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • La Cantatrice Chauve: Anti-Piece / La Lecon: Drame Comique (Collection Folio, 236)
    • Rated 5 stars

    “Reading Ionesco is always a delight for me, especially with this excellent and by all means revolutionary text. But unless you approach it from the right prospective, it won't make any sense. When I first read it, it was a shock for me. Today I'm a fan of Ionesco.”

    Mirko B wrote this review Monday, December 3 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Mythologies
    • Rated 0 stars

    “They say Barthes is really hard to read. But I think demanding books bare the richest intellectual fruits :)”

    Mirko B wrote this review Friday, November 30 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • A Doll's House - Literary Touchstone Edition
    • Rated 5 stars

    “Today we might be regarding this marvelous text from the pre-feminist angle only. That's too bad because we stopped talking about the qualities of Ibsen's writing. The dialog between Nora and Torvald in the crucial scene where she announces her departure is, in terms of dynamics, rhythm and style one of the best ever written in the history of literature. It still gives me the chills when she says thar "she only knows of God what pastor Hansen told her at her communion".”

    Mirko B wrote this review Tuesday, November 20 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Alchemist
    • Rated 4 stars

    “I treasured this book until I discovered that Coelho simply copied some ideas from Khalil Gibran's book "The Prophet"(1927). "The Alchemist" is very new-age in its insisting on self-actualization and metaphysics. If this is your first encounter with Paulo Coelho's work, you'll most probably enjoy it. But as I said, if you interpret it the right way, it will take you to different, surprising sources of that trademark Coelho wisdom. Too bad that Coelho looks(and writes) like something straight out of the Rocky Oprah Picture Show :)”

    Mirko B wrote this review Sunday, November 18 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Philoctetes
    • Rated 5 stars

    “For a while, I had the idea of naming my third book "The Song Of Philoctetes". This mythic hero inspires me so much by his refusal to do bad things with his gift. We should all learn from the Greeks. Go, Sophocles!”

    Mirko B wrote this review Sunday, November 18 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Sonnets: Poems of Love
    • Rated 5 stars

    “I soo love Shakespeare's sonnets: "my mistress eyes are nothing like the sun/coral is far more red then her lips' red/if snow be white, why then her breasts are dun..."You just can't beat this.”

    Mirko B wrote this review Sunday, November 18 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Medea
    • Rated 0 stars

    “Besides Antigone and Aedipus, this is the only true tragedy in the history of literature. It's just us who refuse to confess that it was the Greeks who deciphered the human nature, that's why there are so many new books today dealing with, essentially, the same things. Medea is about the crucial moral issue that remains to this day-suffering and revenge. Or, as Bob Fosse put in "Chicago": "he had it coming/he had it coming/he had only himself to blame".”

    Mirko B wrote this review Sunday, November 18 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Death of a Salesman (Viking Critical Library)
    • Rated 5 stars

    “I read Miller's play for my American Lit college course, and even though this is as depressing as can be(the small house in the midst of skyscrapers resembles a shivering prey gazing at its predator), he makes a good point. There's a lot more to Miller then Marilyn Monroe. ”

    Mirko B wrote this review Sunday, November 18 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • History of Haiku. Two Volumes.History of Haiku. Two Volumes.
    • Rated 0 stars

    “Professor Blyth is, according to Vladimir Devide, the world's greatest expert on Japanese literature and culture. That's why this book(s) is a mandatory read for every haiku afficionado.”

    Mirko B wrote this review Sunday, November 18 2007. ( reply | permalink )
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