Hofstadter at his finest. Essentially, it's about the difficulties of translation, but it transcends that and becomes an amazing exploration of the beauty and complexity of language. Also if you ever talk to a multilingual person-of-preferred-gender it will get you laid, every time.
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signalnine rated George Orwell's 1984: 4 stars
George Orwell's 1984 by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist …
signalnine rated Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade: 4 stars
Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five, also known as The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a science fiction infused anti-war novel by Kurt …
signalnine rated Brave New World: 5 stars
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good …
signalnine rated Breakfast of Champions: 4 stars
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that …
signalnine rated The Idiot: 5 stars
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot (pre-reform Russian: Идіотъ; post-reform Russian: Идиот, tr. Idiót) is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. …
signalnine rated Crime and punishment: 5 stars
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and punishment (1989, Norton)
Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
From [wikipedia][1]:
Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступлéние и наказáние, tr. Prestupleniye i nakazaniye; IPA: [prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲə ɪ nəkɐˈzanʲə]) is a …
signalnine reviewed Le Ton Beau De Marot by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Review of 'Le Ton Beau De Marot' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Hofstadter at his finest. Essentially, it's about the difficulties of translation, but it transcends that and becomes an amazing exploration of the beauty and complexity of language. Also if you ever talk to a multilingual person-of-preferred-gender it will get you laid, every time.
signalnine rated Chekhov: 5 stars
Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
Because Chekhov's plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of …
signalnine rated Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: 5 stars
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Readers of earlier works by Douglas Hofstadter will find this book a natural extension of his style and his ideas …
signalnine rated The Brothers Karamazov: 5 stars
Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback, 1999, Signet Classic)
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoyevsky's passionate concern for people and his intense desire to grasp the meaning of life led him to explore the …
signalnine rated A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: 5 stars
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is a memoir by Dave Eggers released in 2000. It chronicles his stewardship of …
signalnine rated Lord of the Flies: 4 stars
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British author William Golding. The plot concerns a …