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Arana

Arana

has 33 followers and is following 32 people

i love fucked up guys, skinny girls, good literature, extreme music and law.
  • Bucharest, Romania
  • member since December 1, 2007

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  • Yosemite009

    Yosemite009 says

    Amen to that. I look forward to checking your shelf for interesting new reads in the future. Here's to extreme life.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Yosemite009

    Yosemite009 says

    I like your list of favorites, and I really like your written reviews. I'm not especially f*d up on most days, but then again, aren't we all on the f*'d up continuum?

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Phaedrus

    Phaedrus says

    c.um e haunted fata de [ce-ai-mai-citit-de-Polonic]?
    btw, imbecilii astia cenzureaza c.um =))

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Marc Tinkelenberg

    Marc Tinkelenberg says

    What a powerful statement in your header, nice! Wondering what extreme music would be? Tell me one day.
    A bookshelf with Bachmann and Frisch on it, what a luxury, but none of them your favorites... Please allow me to lend an idea or two from your shelf.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • The Ancient One

    The Ancient One says

    Earth Is Enough

    We men of Earth have here the stuff
    Of Paradise - we have enough!
    We need no other stones to build
    The Temple of the Unfulfilled -
    No other ivory for the doors -
    No other marble for the floors -
    No other cedar for the beam
    And dome of man's immortal dream.

    Here on the paths of every-day -
    Here on the common human way
    Is all the stuff the gods would take
    To build a Heaven, to mold and make
    New Edens. Ours is the stuff sublime
    To build Eternity in time!

    - Edwin Markham

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Phaedrus

    Phaedrus says

    'zdau io gulagu daca vrei, numa sa'mi aduci aminte

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • lunchbox

    lunchbox says

    so how old are you?

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • lunchbox

    lunchbox says

    so how old are you?

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Phaedrus

    Phaedrus says

    Creca am io Antichrista pe pc, da' nu te sfatuiesc, mi s'a parut o porcarie sinistra, d'aia nici n'am citit mai mult de, dunno, 10 pagini.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • undergone

    undergone says

    Explorez carti. Gusturile nu se discuta. Si Agatha Christie e preferata mea, dar asta nu inseamna ca trebuie sa rog oamenii sa nu o citeasca pt ca nu imi place ce citesc ei. Nu ma simt jicnita, fiecare cu parerea lui. Nu sunt singura persoana care il are pe Dostoievsky prin alte mii de carti.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Zaphod Beeblebrox

    Zaphod Beeblebrox says

    Hi, Thanks to you, Ive recently picked up "My name is Red" and am reading it. I am almost through, and now I realise how accurate your review was! Like you, I too was really surprised to know about this miniature art and more so about their philosophies. It is completely a new thing to know that there were one set of artists who were religiously against "individual style" and such a detailed philosophy attached to what can be and what shdnt be done. Totally new narrative, exposure to totally different ideas.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Serj

    Serj says

    coperta de la Demian imi aduce aminte de coperta unui album Katatonia :)

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Kishore k

    Kishore k says

    How do you rate Henry Miller? I read Tropic of Cancer in my twenties and was partly fascinated and partly revolted and never thought much about him. In today's emancipated world where do you think Henry Miller stands.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Zaphod Beeblebrox

    Zaphod Beeblebrox says

    Yeah, it really is hard to believe that one who has read near to hundred books hasnt read any humour! I think its just that u r yet to come across the kind of humor that u wld find humorous! Why not try Douglas Adams..?? May be he is the one who can make u laugh. Especially after a heavy dose of philosophy on life and everything, Adams makes a very good read. Just give it a try.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Zaphod Beeblebrox

    Zaphod Beeblebrox says

    hey, how r u? u seem to be real good in writing concise yet accurate reviews. On reading your review on "My name is red" i felt like immediately getting hold of the book. Why not take some time and write for all the books? dont u read much of humor?

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Zaphod Beeblebrox

    Zaphod Beeblebrox says

    Just stumbled upon your message wondering about huge pile of books in a member's shelf! It really beats me too!! In fact there are quite a few who are bitten by this number bug here! One member, for instance, has listed some 10000 books and religiously leaves a one liner review for each and every book saying "its a must read"! Its quite interesting to know that many seem to have not only read/collected so many books, but had the patience to search for each and every book and add to the shelf in Shelfari!! On any day, I would use that time to read a good book instead..:)!
    PS: No offence meant to anybody, just thinking aloud.

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )
  • vivektejuja

    vivektejuja says

    Hey....Have read almost half of the pile :-) not offended at all...just do not watch television at all...read read and read and listen to music...

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )
  • bassel b

    bassel b says

    hi,

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Kishore k

    Kishore k says

    Thanks for the reply. Was browsing your shelf and found many authors like Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Garcia Marquez, Huxley, Orwell who are also my favourites. It was interesting to note that though you are probably much younger to me and come from different parts of the world our choice of authors have a lot in common. My travels have been mainly limited to western Europe but I have a great interest in knowing about eastern Europe specially Romania , Hungary and Poland.
    I am curious to know if your formative years of reading were spent in the Ceausescu era or after that. I am also interested in knowing do you find the reading habits help to create a value system amongst the young or it is being eroded in pursuit of economic gains. It was refreshing to see that a young person spending time to read authors like Homer and Huxley

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Kishore k

    Kishore k says

    Read your interesting comment on Plague. Camus happens to be an author very close to my heart and I cant really figure out whether he was an optimist, pessimist or a rational humanist. Shades of various colours emerge in Fall, Plague, Just , Myth of Sisiphus etc. However he was never bogged down like Sartre with philosophy (Existentialism , phenomenology) and was always free flow in style and very little ambiguity on content. However his deep sense of pathos probably emerged from his unfilled goal as a footballer due to illness and his unique stand on the futility of socialism from his heart that was not appreciated by the French intellectuals of that era. Sartre negated socialism through logic though at heart he was a socialist, Camus was too advanced for his age. However Camus can be a bit dangerous for a developing mind. I started reading Camus at 18, now I am 55 and it had a devastating effect on me for some time. A Nobel Prize in his early forties followed by suicide is for the exceptional so he needs to be handled with care.

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )

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