schinko94's reviews
107 reviews

My least favorite magical realism writer. Beautiful descriptions of Buenos Aires, the city I love, but Borges is pretentious and self-centered.

One of my very favorite plays (in which I had the honor of playing Simon Stinson). Thornton Wilder is an expert at showing why one should appreciate the little things.

Love Oscar Wilde, but the Victorian language makes this one a difficult read without guidance.

Great religious literature, especially if you want to understand the core of a major branch of Hinduism. A short read as well-- It only took me about 4 hours.

A really comprehensive grammar of the Japanese language. However, it doesn't teach you Hiragana or Katakana, but neither of the writing systems are that useful for learning grammar and speaking anyhow. Might as well learn them from another book once you've got a handle on how to speak the language.

This is really the only comprehensive grammar of the Afrikaans language that I could find. It offers a lot of brilliant examples, along with understandable explanations of Afrikaans grammar. However, I felt that the pronunciation section was a bit subpar (it bases pronunciation on British English rather than IPA or some other phonetic alphabet), and some grammar points were a bit fuzzy at times. Overall a good reference book though.

This is an absolutely FANTASTIC introduction to the diloggun, and is probably the most comprehensive work on Afro-Cuban divination to exist today. Very thorough, and according to the author, other volumes are in the works which will amplify the intricacies of each reading. The diloggun is an extremely advanced and complicated form of divination, and it's no wonder that students of the diloggun must dedicate their entire lives to the study of it.