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Den Lille Prins by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
5.0
“We must cultivate our own Garden. . . . When a man was put in the ‘Garden of Eden’ he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.” - A line from the acclaimed French author Voltaire’s novel ‘Candide’. This metaphor of gardening recurs around the entire novel.
Drawings are a way of imparting ambiguous knowledge depending on how an observer interprets it and which suits the abstract thinking of a kid. Thus author uses his sketches as illustrations to make the narrator feel like a child. It’s also narrated that how adults in their so pragmatic worlds with dogmas and notions can’t understand the mysterious beauty in the abstract art of a child.
We see from the dialogues of little prince and his spirit of exploration that questions are more important than the answers. He also influences us on how much our contribution in sustaining our environment and little philosophical speculations are more important in everyday life than all our selfish goals and capitalistic matters, that the most significantly true meaning of a thing can be uncovered only when one explores it by himself putting individual effort. One can only realize the true worth of a thing if the only one does hard work in finding that thing, the experiences are only rewarding when invested with time and work.
We often see how lonesome adults the prince visits in different planets are immersed in their own worlds of strange self-fulfilment and are so reluctant to any companionship despite being so isolated.
This story teaches children that one must be vigilant and disciplined to take care of our planet by setting the example of overgrown baobabs.
The love story of Prince and the rose foreshadows a relationship which is misunderstood by the immature prince and how his wanderlust spirits make him leave his rose alone but soon he realizes the distance that makes him worry and to feel deep love towards that rose. As the prince actually explores the wide universe (the earth especially) he like a frog who’s got out of his well for the first time finds his surrounding world to be so big and himself an individual so tiny - a harsh myriad reality when he explores the garden of rose but is soon enlightened by a fox that the rose that the prince has tamed is special for him and thus most important than all the roses in the world.
Drawings are a way of imparting ambiguous knowledge depending on how an observer interprets it and which suits the abstract thinking of a kid. Thus author uses his sketches as illustrations to make the narrator feel like a child. It’s also narrated that how adults in their so pragmatic worlds with dogmas and notions can’t understand the mysterious beauty in the abstract art of a child.
We see from the dialogues of little prince and his spirit of exploration that questions are more important than the answers. He also influences us on how much our contribution in sustaining our environment and little philosophical speculations are more important in everyday life than all our selfish goals and capitalistic matters, that the most significantly true meaning of a thing can be uncovered only when one explores it by himself putting individual effort. One can only realize the true worth of a thing if the only one does hard work in finding that thing, the experiences are only rewarding when invested with time and work.
We often see how lonesome adults the prince visits in different planets are immersed in their own worlds of strange self-fulfilment and are so reluctant to any companionship despite being so isolated.
This story teaches children that one must be vigilant and disciplined to take care of our planet by setting the example of overgrown baobabs.
The love story of Prince and the rose foreshadows a relationship which is misunderstood by the immature prince and how his wanderlust spirits make him leave his rose alone but soon he realizes the distance that makes him worry and to feel deep love towards that rose. As the prince actually explores the wide universe (the earth especially) he like a frog who’s got out of his well for the first time finds his surrounding world to be so big and himself an individual so tiny - a harsh myriad reality when he explores the garden of rose but is soon enlightened by a fox that the rose that the prince has tamed is special for him and thus most important than all the roses in the world.
Diary of an AssCan by Andy Weir
3.0
More Mark Watney, Oh Yeah!
"I wish there were a way to spend more time on the surface. But oh well. 31 sols will have to do."
No, Shit!
549 SOLS! HOLY CRAP!
It's a good short story to get a glimpse of the amazing Mark Watney but it's just too short to make an actual plot. Okay, it captures some moments that we all love of him. Enough, go on and read it.
The Martian 0.5
"I wish there were a way to spend more time on the surface. But oh well. 31 sols will have to do."
No, Shit!
549 SOLS! HOLY CRAP!
It's a good short story to get a glimpse of the amazing Mark Watney but it's just too short to make an actual plot. Okay, it captures some moments that we all love of him. Enough, go on and read it.
The Martian 0.5
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
4.0
A mad, mad book about a mad mad world!
All I've to say is Carroll's imagination is so vivid and much mind-boggling for readers. The Wonderland is full of bizarre beings and chaos: the creatures argue a lot among themselves and there's much of conflict between classes in their societal structure, yet somehow they're in harmony with each other and with nature; Alice in this Wonderland hustles a lot to find reasons, a meaning to all these strange behavioral attributes of people there but she doesn't find any sense, she's even frustrated with herself with her dynamic change in size: the insignificance of childhood and the perils of growing up.
I've listened to the audiobook narrated by Scarlett Johansson and she is amazing especially in pulling out weird accents. I'm not much into fantasy or children's book like these and I felt much strange reading a book like this where it's so difficult to comprehend of why that particular act took place but once you start understanding them it's really fun, I mean the events are not that meaningless: they've connections with our real life and meaning in our world and the microcosm is encrypted in this book though awkwardly.
Lewis Carroll's writing is just brilliant and as he was a mathematician, he has embedded all the universal uncertainty in a very English way: for instance, the Mock Turtle has to learn Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision in their arithmetic class, lol! and for me, the conversation with Gryphon and Mock Turtle was the best part. There's a lot of beautiful but non-sensical poetry in this book. I like this book because it's so absurdly unique and was quite an adventure reading it.
All I've to say is Carroll's imagination is so vivid and much mind-boggling for readers. The Wonderland is full of bizarre beings and chaos: the creatures argue a lot among themselves and there's much of conflict between classes in their societal structure, yet somehow they're in harmony with each other and with nature; Alice in this Wonderland hustles a lot to find reasons, a meaning to all these strange behavioral attributes of people there but she doesn't find any sense, she's even frustrated with herself with her dynamic change in size: the insignificance of childhood and the perils of growing up.
I've listened to the audiobook narrated by Scarlett Johansson and she is amazing especially in pulling out weird accents. I'm not much into fantasy or children's book like these and I felt much strange reading a book like this where it's so difficult to comprehend of why that particular act took place but once you start understanding them it's really fun, I mean the events are not that meaningless: they've connections with our real life and meaning in our world and the microcosm is encrypted in this book though awkwardly.
Lewis Carroll's writing is just brilliant and as he was a mathematician, he has embedded all the universal uncertainty in a very English way: for instance, the Mock Turtle has to learn Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision in their arithmetic class, lol! and for me, the conversation with Gryphon and Mock Turtle was the best part. There's a lot of beautiful but non-sensical poetry in this book. I like this book because it's so absurdly unique and was quite an adventure reading it.