About understanding....

[Arvestaked]

So since there were some interesting books mentioned in the "What are you reading?" thread, We thought that making this thread would be a good thing. Tell us about the books you have understood, not just read.

"Tell me the obscurest little thing that jumped out at you from a book. Not one you'll find in the blurb on the cover or on the book jacket. Not something quoted repeatedly. Then I will believe you read the book. Tell me how that made you feel to the tip of your 11 toes."

[ M.L.C.]

[felizitation]

Re: About understanding....

Originally posted by Arvestaked So since there were some interesting books mentioned in the "What are you reading?" thread, We thought that making this thread would be a good thing. Tell us about the books you have understood, not just read.

"Tell me the obscurest little thing that jumped out at you from a book. Not one you'll find in the blurb on the cover or on the book jacket. Not something quoted repeatedly. Then I will believe you read the book. Tell me how that made you feel to the tip of your 11 toes."

[ M.L.C.]

I've understood, thanks to Kundera and his book "The joke", that forgiveness should not exist. What is underlying forgiveness is the fault itselves, and the latter exists as long as the forgiveness exists.
The only way for a fault to disapear is time and its oblivion



PS.: I'm clear or ?

[Arvestaked]

M.L.C. says:

"Run Sammy Run" ruined my life.

"The Secret Life of Bees" brought it back.

Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five" made me look like this:

"The da Vinci Code" kept me up for 3 days.

"Flowers for Algernon" made me cry. It still does.

"The Story of B" by Daniel Quinn is what I am working on now.

"Roots" and "The Power of One" made me hate racism and made me hurt like I was the one being beat down though I will never know what it is like to be the color black.

My foray into politics only goes as far as Machiavelli's "The Prince" which I had to read twice to make sure I was right about what I thought I read the first time. I read Plato and Socrates with a dictionary in my hand then realized I know nothing about how the world is run. Nor will I ever understand politics. It is evil to me.

The book that made my heart hurt and gave me crying hiccups was "The Thorn Birds".

"One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" was frickin' great.

"Where the Red Fern Grows" Now there's a book I felt down to my toes. If you read a book in 7th grade, like when I read "Where the Red Fern Grows" and then years years years later, like me today you still remember how you felt when you put that book down (damn that book was good) then you've read a damn good book and understood it better than anyone who can rattle of a dozen quotes and tell you what happened on page 44.

I could rattle off a dozen Gogol's, Hemingway's, Nietzsche's, and Thoreau's, but most of what I learned and undertood from those books is quite intrinsic and refers to me, not something I would choose to brodcast. Anyway it seems those names fly around like people are name dropping or something, and much like Louis Vuitton labeled purses and those ugly UG's (shoes)... the name-dropping to seem educated or something has reached a point called overkill.

[Arvestaked]

I was not expecting this thread to get many posts and I am going to assume because most people read and draw nothing from what they read except for the right to say they read something.

[felizitation]

Originally posted by Arvestaked I was not expecting this thread to get many posts and I am going to assume because most people read and draw nothing from what they read except for the right to say they read something.

I was just wondering what you've understood about which book written by who, since I don't know MLC.
On the other hand, since it seems to be a quote (I know where it begins, I don't know where it ends), you didn't give your point.
But some wisdom is telling me that i'm missing something again ...