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Ideas About the Novel is a prophetic book. Years before academics and critics attempted to analyze the problems of the Novel, Jose Ortega y Gasset dissected it —and to some extent saved it— by pointing out that (1) the novel should show and not tell (2) the novel should move from plot to character, and (3) the novel as a non-transcendent art form—and much more.

Torquemada at the Stake by Perez Galdos- my translation $3
Next to Cervantes, Benito Perez Galdos is the most beloved Spanish writer of all times. In creating the anti-hero Torquemada, Galdos created a prototype that will endure the generations to come. Don Francisco Torquemada, usurer, business man, loving father, and tormented soul--is a character of unmatched peaks and psychological valleys. This fresh translation captures the experiences of 19th Century life in Madrid; all in contemporary English.

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Read it in contemporary English -- No Thous, Thees, or King James' Bible language. Transliterated into easy language for enjoyable reading pleasure. Because The Lazarillo of Tormes pointed a new direction, European and American literature benefited with titles that today are considered classics: Cervantes’ Rinconete and Cortadillo; Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders, Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews; Tobias Smollett’s Roderick Random, and Peregrine Pickle; Voltaire’s Candide; Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield. And many others to include American works ranging from Mark Twain to Saul Bellow.

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The Dehumanization of Art— is now a constant in music, literature, aesthetics, and philosophy, having come to mean that in post-modern times human-shaped mimesis (representation of the human) is irrelevant to art. According to Ortega, the arts don't have to tell a human story; art should deal with its own forms—and not with the human form.

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How writers open their sentences makes prose agile, interesting, and athletic. This e-book teaches how to break the pattern Subject-verb-object--and discard openings that begin with nouns, articles, and pronouns.

East of Tiffany's - bestseller $5
With the city as its backdrop "East of Tiffany's" is filled with earnest tales of love, loss, faith, success and morality. While business terminology is interwoven throughout these short stories, it's not business lessons that I take away with me, but life lessons. The circumstances and the characters' profound humanity are relatable despite their zip code . "Luke, Postmodern Man" offers a new vista into faith, suffering, and love of neighbor. Way after you read this book you'll find yourself thinking about the various characters throughout the series of stories and will find solace in their unwavering faith. The narrators' ability to reflect on their hardships with such serenity is inspiring.



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Saturday, May 23, 2009

Harold Coyle, They Are Soldiers

A master of American English syntax, Harold Coyle grabs you by the hand and won’t let go until you are done with the book. They Are Soldiers is a showcase for athletic prose.

But how does he do it?

The secret is in his sentence openers. Seldom does one find the pattern subject, verb, complement. His openers abound in prepositional phrases and lots of subordinate clauses. Gone are the days when American writers--under the influence of Ernest Hemingway--wrote tedious chains of short declarative sentence.

Writers like Harold Coyle will re-instate American English to prominence once again.

The grunts fighting the war in Iraq are in great numbers our friends, neighbors, and relatives: The Army Reserve and the National Guard. Coyle’s theme is that these citizens are soldiers—not to be looked down as a half-ragged militia.

What a joy it is to read fluid, breathless narrative.

Read Coyle’s book. Pray for our men and women in uniform. It's time to bring them back--unharmed and whole or wounded and maimed, but bring them back--to their friends, their moms, and pops, siblings, friends, their hoods, their towns, their states—bring them back to a grateful nation!

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Augustine, City of God
Austen J, Pride and Prejudice
Austen J, "Marriage Proposals and Me"
Austen J, Emma
Borges, The Aleph
C. Bronte, Jane Eyre
Burroughs E,Tarzan
Cervantes, Don Quijote
Chaucer, Wife of Bath
Coelho P,The Alchemist
Coyle H, They Are Soldiers
Dante, New Life
Dickens C, David Copperfield
Dostoevsky, Crime&Punishment
ConanDoyle,Hound of Baskervilles
Dubner S, Superfreakonomics

DuMaurier D, Rebecca
Ellis B. E. American Psycho
Fitzgerald S, Great Gatsby
Flaubert G, Madame Bovary
Fleming I,Doctor No
Freud S, Leonardo Da Vinci
Friedan B, Feminine Mystique
GarciaMarquez, Of Love & OtherDemons
GarciaMarquez,OneHundredYrs
Guerrero M,ThePoison Pill

Grass G, The Tin Drum
Harris T, Hannibal Rising
Heidegger M,House of Being
Ishiguro K, Remains of The Day
Johnson S,Rasselas
Kafka,Metamorphosis
Kosinski J, The Painted Bird
Lee H,To Kill a Mockingbird
McBain Ed,Gutter and Grave
Murakami H,Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Nabokov V, Lolita
Meyer, S, Twilight
Ortega,Dehumanization of Art
Poe E A, Gordon Pym
Prose F, Reading Like a Writer
Rushdie S,Midnight Children
Sabatini R, Scaramouche
Spark M, Prime of Miss Brodie

Stendhal, Red and Black
Sterne L,Tristram Shandy
Stevenson R, Dr.Jekyll & Mr.Hyde
Stoker B, Dracula
Thackeray W,History of Pendennis
Tolstoy L, Anna Karenina
Trollope A, Autobiography
Unamuno M, Tragic Sense of Life
Voltaire, Candide
Webb J, Fields of Fire
Wharton E, The House of Mirth
Woolf V, To The Lighhouse


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