Raskolnikov

american woman.

The heart is a lonely hunter - Carson McCullers (this was the answer of another topic..)

Interesting topic but if you allow me i would like to enlarge to books using the sport as a dramatic tool and body as a literary matter. - American Psycho, Brett Easton Ellis for fitness delirium - 3 Men in a boat, Jerome K Jerome for rowing misadventures - The Game, Jack London for his depicture boxing masculinity - Confessions of a mask, Yukio Mishima for bodybuilding homoeroticism

I really like this book as well. Some kind of Jack London poverty which Orwell experienced as well. This really comforts me with the idea that a dense piece of creation is deeply rooted to the experience of solitude and suffering. here is a link to Orwell's diary updated daily http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/

Albert Camus is an interesting author. Very political. Always involved in questionning radicalism in all its displays. From what is translated into english i would recommand The just which is a short play about russian revolutionaries who are ploting a coup against a duke. Attending to kill him, they all think of the consequences of this bombing (especially its collateral damage side and the eventuality that some 'innocent' people would also be killed during the attack). Right now, in France, there is some kind of resurrection of his work as president Sarkozy is intending to honour his memory by removing his grave in order to put it in the parisian pantheon.

The author of the book is a woman.

The Road is as good as the book.

C

Oh Christ, another stiffled friday night...

I have only read The Road and I am starging to read the Broder trilogy. The Road was intense, dark but for me it's not that depressing. I was crying at the end as the whole book is about sacrifice (that's maybe because I have a son / I did the same watching a Tarkovsky film called Sacrifice). The only reason the father did not suicide was his son. The moral of the book is humanist : that's the only but very important light in it. 'Four or five years ago, [my son John] and I went to El Paso, and we checked in to the old hotel there. And one night, John was asleep, it was probably about two or three o

hmm. Doppey. Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

That's what i meant : I really like your humour.

Nice story Ned.

I am a young man who works in a jewelry. I live in a dusty town in the deep south of America in the 1930s. I have found a flat, upstair from a small house. The whole book through, very different kind of people felt attracted to me. For some reason, they all consider me as their best friend despite the fact i did not even spoke to them. My name is?

My name is Lord Henry Wotton from The picture of Dorian Gray.

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I am a noble man and corruptor of the minds. Wits and puns flood through my veins. I will transgressively convert a young man to artificial pleasures and crime. I also live in a famous book read by, I am sure, all of you. Who am I?

right / up to you

Sorry if I jump in but I could not wait as it's an good game and not easy to cheat with. Here is my picture.

Twelve angry men - Reginald Rose & David Mankell

"It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murderer". Lovecraft, The thing on the door step

Good taste of yours. So it's up to me : I am a noble man and corruptor of the minds. Wits and puns flood through my veins. I will transgressively convert a young man to artificial pleasures and crime. Who am I?

To tell you the truth, I was hving great expectations of such an enigma coming in this thread.

Correct / Now it's your turn to quizz us.

I cannot accept this answer. Second chance :