Sensation and Sex
9 best books like Sensation and Sex (Lucretius): Gitanjali: Song Offerings, Marvel 1602, The Travels, A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories, Snow, Glass, Apples, A Life Force, Jejuri, Conspicuous Consumption, Why I Am So Wise
| Author | Rabindranath Tagore |
| ISBN | 1420926306 |
Warning
: I am letting my heart pour out over this review. Might be long. Read it if you want to or if have some time to spare.
I always wanted to write a review on Geetanjali, as it has been very close to my heart and always will be, but something stopped me every time I made an attempt. Maybe it was...
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 0785123113 |
In Marvel 1602, award-winning writer Neil Gaiman presents a unique vision of the Marvel Universe set four hundred years in the past. Classic Marvel icons such as the X-Men, Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and Daredevil appear in this intriguing world of 17th-century science and sorcery, instantly...
| Author | Marco Polo |
| ISBN | 0140440577 |
Marco Polo (1254-1329) has achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is one of the first great travel books of Western literature, outside the ancient world. The Travels recounts Polo's journey to the eastern court of Kublai Khan, the chieftain of the Mongol empire which...
A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories
| Author | Will Eisner |
| ISBN | 0878160183 |
‘A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories’ written and illustrated by Will Eisner, one of the giants in the sequential arts arena, is a perfectly executed graphic novel, which provides the reader a peek at the American experience during the early 1930s. Through four interconnected graphic...
*3.5 stars*
Oh my! Snow, Glass, Apples is some twisted, dark and creepy fairytale retelling of Snow White, lovely and dear Snow White. In this short story written by the critically acclaimed author Neil Gaiman, she is pure and innocent no more. Better watch out: the mask she wears might...
| Author | Will Eisner |
| ISBN | 0393328031 |
The second in Eisner's Contract with God trilogy, historical fiction, set in 1934 as the Depression was well under way and the forces of communism/socialism/Nazism swirled as a response to world economic events. The story, set on Manhattan's lower east side, Drops Avenue, owes much to nineteenth...
| Author | Arun Kolatkar |
| ISBN | 1590171632 |
A sequence of stunningly simple but haunting poems, Jejuri is one of the great books of modern India. Jejuri is a site of pilgramage in author Arun Kolatkar's native state of Maharashtra, and Jejuri the poem is the record of a visit to the town -- a place that is as crassly commercial as it is holy, as modern...
| Author | Thorstein Veblen |
| ISBN | 0143037595 |
What a wretched little book. I don't know much about the author, I know the book, Theory of the Leisure Class, is a famous sociology text, and that these parts all come from that whole. What I don't know if there is something missing in these parts that in the full text, would say, "I'm joking of course about...
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| ISBN | 0143036343 |
This is my first Nietzsche. I've already learned a lot.
1. Everyone assume N is German, but he considers himself a Pole.
2. N hated German culture. I guess the Nazis missed this book. N also thought Wagner’s best work was more French than German—a unique insight, to say the least.
3. N...
