Open Source Shakespeare

More than just a collection of texts…Open Source Shakespeare attempts to be the best free Web site containing Shakespeare’s complete works. It is intended for scholars, thespians, and Shakespeare lovers of every kind. OSS includes the 1864 Globe Edition of the complete works, which was the definitive single-volume Shakespeare edition for over a half-century.

Open Source Shakespeare: search Shakespeare’s works, read the texts

Longest novels

List of longest novels – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I have read Atlas Shrugged, A Suitable Boy and Harry Potter from the above list.

Let’s see which others I can add to my reading portfolio.

Steve Farber – Greater than yourself

Part One:
Expand Yourself
• Expand Your Identity
• Shift Your Perspective
• Elevate Your Intention
• Commit To Your Legacy

Part Two:

Give Yourself

• Choose Wisely

• Tithe Your Time

• Give It All Away

• Celebrate Dramatically

Part Three:

Replicate Yourself

• Teach Others to Teach Others to Fish

• Change The World

Steve Farber: Greater Than Yourself: An Overview of the Challenge

Moral Disorder – Margaret Atwood

From The Washington Post’s Book World/washingtonpost.comA young writer, like a young woman, has a narrow strip of experience from which to contemplate an unknown future, empty and waiting for its form. An older writer, reminded of mortality by aging knees and dying parents, has the consolation of seeing everything in rich detail, meaningful and apparently pointless together. Moral Disorder is about a whole life, the life of Nell, married to Tig, or Gilbert. It is told in segments, stories concentrating on particular gritty or glittering episodes or problems. It covers every decade from the 1930s to the present. Margaret Atwood balances the apparently random — disorderly — events and memories against the sense we all have that a life as a whole has its own shape, possibly a destiny.

Amazon.com: Moral Disorder: and Other Stories: Books: Margaret Atwood

George Orwell and English

Politics and the English LanguageMost people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is decadent and our language — so the argument runs — must inevitably share in the general collapse. It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to electric light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes. Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes.

George Orwell: Politics and the English Language

Book lists

Other lists, other opinions…in which we reveal the existence of other lists, and compare them.We know we are not the first to develop a list of “top” titles of one sort or another. Here for your enjoyment are a few others we have discovered.
* 100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know
* BBC’s Big Read
* CounterPunch’s Top 100 (and a few more) Non-fiction Works of the 20th Century * Daniel Burt’s Literary 100
* Daniel Burt’s Novel 100
* Great Books canonical lists
* Guardian Review’s Top 100 Books of All Time
* The Image Top 100 Books of the Twentieth Century
* The Internet Top 100 SF/Fantasy List
* Martin Seymour-Smith’s 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written
* National Education Association’s Kids’ Top 100 books
* National Education Association’s Teachers’ Top 100 books
* National Review 100 Best Non-Fiction Books Of The Century
* Project Gutenberg’s Top 100
* Radcliffe Publishing Course 100 Best Novels

Other lists [OCLC - OCLC Top 1000]

Flow – continued

Ask a physicist ‘what creates the universe’ and they say energy. Ask them to describe energy and they tell you,’It can never be created or destroyed; it always is, always has been and always will be; it is always flowing into form, through form and out of form.’Now, ask a theologian ‘what creates the universe’ and they say God. Ask them to describe God and they might also tell you,’It can never be created or destroyed; it always is, always has been and always will be; it is always flowing into form, through form and out of form.’Hmmm, interesting! It seems that science, philosophy, spirituality and myth are all just different perspectives on reality, our different ways of enquiring into the nature of things.

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Coincidentally, when we do this we also recognize that, in spite of what we previously believed, we are not separate from one other. We are all part of one Universal Consciousness, and the intelligence, power and incredible love that are all aspects of this Life Force are available to every one of us.

Life 2.0: The little book of Flow – revised

The Flow ..

These experiences are not just confined to sports either – most of us have experienced something like this at least once in our life, usually by accident rather than design. They can be the most beautiful, sublime, carefree, creative and happy moments in our lives. We often recall them later in life – how we felt more alive and everything seemed more real than anything we had experienced previously or since – almost like tantalizing postcards from a magical kingdom that we never really got to go to.

Life 2.0: The little book of Flow – revised

Orhan Pamuk – Snow – review

Yet there are literary judgments that some readers will question. The first is to omit Ka’s poems. The green book has been lost or stolen and what remain are Ka’s notes on how he came to write his 19 poems in Kars and how they might be arranged on the crystalline model of a snowflake. That is quite as dull as it sounds: really, in a book so expansive and light, the only dull passages. Incidentally, what verse there is in the book, copied from the wall of the tea-shop, is worth reading. One senses that Ka is a poet visiting Kars because the poet Pushkin visited Kars (on June 12 and 13 1829).

Books | Frozen assets

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Cleaver – Tim Parks

A silent book that has a lot of German phrases and no translation available!

Cleaver is a TV presenter who goes into hiding after he interviews the US president on TV. At the same time, his son publishes a book that shows how he views his father. The review of the father is inflattering to say the least. Cleaver in a bid to cope with this different perception and new reality escapes to Europe and cuts off communication lines with his family as well as acquaintances. He goes on a voyage of self-discovery in the silence of his rented snowed-in home in the harsh European winter.

More information available at:

http://www.timparks.com/20.html