Carl's bookshelf: all en-US Thu, 14 Mar 2019 00:02:58 -0700 60 Carl's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Midnight Nation 100094 304 J. Michael Straczynski 1582404607 Carl 5
I absolutely love dark, hopeless romance, and I guess all romance is that, because love and doom seem to be inseparable. The notion that they are inseparable intensifies both spectrums in their purest forms. They define each other.]]> 4.03 2003 Midnight Nation
author: J. Michael Straczynski
name: Carl
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2003
rating: 5
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There's something about the combination of visuals and storytelling in this book that make reading it similar to an emotional fever dream. The themes explored here cut deep into my emotional spectrum and explored dark, hidden feelings that are uncomfortable, yet intimate and strangely romantic to search. I felt such a deep connection to the characters Straczynski created. Their struggles, ordeals and revelations bonded me to them because I could feel them so closely.

I absolutely love dark, hopeless romance, and I guess all romance is that, because love and doom seem to be inseparable. The notion that they are inseparable intensifies both spectrums in their purest forms. They define each other.
]]> A.D.: After Death 33163459 Wytches, Batman, American Vampire) and Jeff Lemire (Descender, Extraordinary X-Men, Sweet Tooth).
A.D.: After Death is set in a future where a genetic cure for death has been found and now, years later, one man starts to question everything, leading him on a mind-bending journey that will bring him face-to-face with his past and his own mortality.
A unique combination of comics, prose and illustration, A.D.: After Death is a experience like nothing else.

Collecting: A.D.: After Death 1-3]]> 224 Scott Snyder 163215868X Carl 5 3.75 2017 A.D.: After Death
author: Scott Snyder
name: Carl
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2017
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Saga of the Swamp Thing: Book Four]]> 8403420
Collects issues #43–#50.]]> 224 Alan Moore 1401230180 Carl 5 4.44 1986 Saga of the Swamp Thing: Book Four
author: Alan Moore
name: Carl
average rating: 4.44
book published: 1986
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Y: The Last Man, Vol. 10: Whys and Wherefores]]> 2202230 WINNER OF THREE EISNER AWARDS

Featured in THE NEW YORK TIMES and on NPR, Y: THE LAST MAN is the gripping saga of Yorick Brown, an unemployed and unmotivated slacker who discovers he is the only male left in the world after a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome. Accompanied by his mischievous monkey, Ampersand, and the mysterious Agent 355, Yorick embarks on a transcontinental journey to find his long-lost girlfriend and discover why he is the last man on earth.

Yorick Brown's long journey through an Earth populated only by women comes to a dramatic, unexpected conclusion in this final volume. Collects issues #55-60 of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's award-winning Vertigo series.

]]> 168 Brian K. Vaughan 140121813X Carl 5 4.33 2008 Y: The Last Man, Vol. 10: Whys and Wherefores
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: Carl
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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]]> The Old Man and the Sea 2165 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

This short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses—specifically referred to in the citation accompanying the author's Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.]]> 96 Ernest Hemingway 0684830493 Carl 5
]]> 3.81 1952 The Old Man and the Sea
author: Ernest Hemingway
name: Carl
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1952
rating: 5
read at: 2015/02/02
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A powerful personal account of life's primal dance with defeat and death. When you have lived - and in essence fought - as long as Santiago has, it would be natural to assume that a man begins losing things to fight for, but man was created to endure, evolved to conquer, and although Santiago has accepted his mortality, he never turns away from his nature. When the most monumental challenge of his life reveals itself to him, he can do nothing but answer, nothing but thrust his soul and his body and his blood into the endless unknown oceans of doubt because there is nothing more pure than rising in defiance against seemingly indomitable forces and discovering your purpose and measure within the rabid fray.


]]> The Dharma Bums 412732 On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums is sparked by Kerouac's expansiveness, humor, and a contagious zest for life.]]> 244 Jack Kerouac Carl 5
I loved how genuinely it was written, reading of Ray's travels makes me want to climb my own mountains and look down upon the upside-down world.

]]> 3.94 1958 The Dharma Bums
author: Jack Kerouac
name: Carl
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1958
rating: 5
read at: 2014/04/22
date added: 2014/11/06
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Maybe some people are just born natural Buddhists, because reading this was like seeing reflections of my own realizations of life and spirituality.

I loved how genuinely it was written, reading of Ray's travels makes me want to climb my own mountains and look down upon the upside-down world.


]]> Pickman's Model 8563911
The story revolves around a Bostonian painter named Richard Upton Pickman who creates horrifying images. His works are brilliantly executed, but so graphic that they result in his membership in the Boston Art Club being revoked and himself shunned by his fellow artists.]]> 66 H.P. Lovecraft Carl 5
The beasts and images invoked are so frightening because lovecraft births them from your own image of darkness and fear, a reflection of what haunts the lost and depraved recesses of the human soul and imagination.

]]> 3.85 1927 Pickman's Model
author: H.P. Lovecraft
name: Carl
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1927
rating: 5
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date added: 2014/11/05
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This is my first entry into the mind of Lovecraft and I have to say I am astonished by his style of writing. Already I can tell that he is a master of terror and horror. The way he uses your own imagination against you to craft your own nightmare is truly masterful.

The beasts and images invoked are so frightening because lovecraft births them from your own image of darkness and fear, a reflection of what haunts the lost and depraved recesses of the human soul and imagination.


]]> The Fault in Our Stars 11870085
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.]]> 313 John Green Carl 0 to-read 4.13 2012 The Fault in Our Stars
author: John Green
name: Carl
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> Steppenwolf 16631 Steppenwolf is a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. This Faust-like and magical story is evidence of Hesse's searching philosophy and extraordinary sense of humanity as he tells of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope. Yet his novel can also be seen as a plea for rigorous self-examination and an indictment of the intellectual hypocrisy of the period. As Hesse himself remarked, "Of all my books Steppenwolf is the one that was more often and more violently misunderstood than any of the others".]]> 256 Hermann Hesse 0140282580 Carl 0 currently-reading 4.15 1927 Steppenwolf
author: Hermann Hesse
name: Carl
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1927
rating: 0
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]]> Their Eyes Were Watching God 37415 238 Zora Neale Hurston 0061120065 Carl 0 to-read 3.98 1937 Their Eyes Were Watching God
author: Zora Neale Hurston
name: Carl
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1937
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes]]> 23754
In PRELUDES & NOCTURNES, an occultist attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. After his 70 year imprisonment and eventual escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest for his lost objects of power. On his arduous journey, Morpheus encounters Lucifer, John Constantine, and an all-powerful madman.

This book also includes the story "The Sound of Her Wings," which introduces us to the pragmatic and perky goth girl Death.

Includes issues 1-8 of the original series.]]> 240 Neil Gaiman 1563892278 Carl 0 to-read 4.25 1988 The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Carl
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1988
rating: 0
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]]> On the Road 70401 307 Jack Kerouac 0140042598 Carl 0 to-read 3.63 1957 On the Road
author: Jack Kerouac
name: Carl
average rating: 3.63
book published: 1957
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha]]> 773433 144 Anonymous 0877739668 Carl 5 4.44 -400 Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha
author: Anonymous
name: Carl
average rating: 4.44
book published: -400
rating: 5
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]]> The Master and Margarita 18954475

The master with ingenious inspiration described the last days Jesus lives in the novel about Pontius Pilate. For this novel it paid with freedom and was sent to hospital. Margarita - his secret beloved, for the sake of rescue of darling and a meeting with it is ready on the transaction with a devil. At this time somebody Voland who has arrived to Moscow with the servants, inspires fear in all Muscovites. But in the world where the evil took roots, and the evil spirit, the tricks of a Satan painted by flashing humour sat down, turn around in punishment for human sins and defects.

Roman Bulgakov "The master and Margarita" is included in the school program on literature, that is, recognized as classical work. Meanwhile, among the orthodox there is an opinion that this novel is blasphemous.]]> 445 Mikhail Bulgakov Carl 5 4.19 1967 The Master and Margarita
author: Mikhail Bulgakov
name: Carl
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1967
rating: 5
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]]> The Count of Monte Cristo 7126 The epic tale of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge, in its definitive translation

Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to use the treasure to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas’ epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s.

Translated with an Introduction by Robin Buss

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here]]> 1276 Alexandre Dumas 0140449264 Carl 5 4.29 1846 The Count of Monte Cristo
author: Alexandre Dumas
name: Carl
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1846
rating: 5
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]]> Invisible Man 16981 Invisible Man is one of those rare novels that have changed the shape of American literature. For not only does Ralph Ellison's nightmare journey across the racial divide tell unparalleled truths about the nature of bigotry and its effects on the minds of both victims and perpetrators, it gives us an entirely new model of what a novel can be.

As he journeys from the Deep South to the streets and basements of Harlem, from a horrifying "battle royal" where black men are reduced to fighting animals, to a Communist rally where they are elevated to the status of trophies, Ralph Ellison's nameless protagonist ushers readers into a parallel universe that throws our own into harsh and even hilarious relief. Suspenseful and sardonic, narrated in a voice that takes in the symphonic range of the American language, black and white, Invisible Man is one of the most audacious and dazzling novels of our century.]]> 581 Ralph Ellison Carl 5 3.91 1952 Invisible Man
author: Ralph Ellison
name: Carl
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1952
rating: 5
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]]> A Course in Miracles 2115099 1164 Helen Schucman 0976420066 Carl 5 4.30 1976 A Course in Miracles
author: Helen Schucman
name: Carl
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1976
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Book of Five Rings (Shambhala Pocket Classics)]]> 831629
The Book of Five Rings —which has become a well-known classic among American business people, studied for its insights into the Japanese approach to business strategy—was composed in 1643 by the famed duelist and undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi. Unlike previous editions of The Book of Five Rings, Thomas Cleary's is an accessible translation, free of jargon, with an introduction that presents the spiritual background of the warrior tradition. Along with Musashi's text, Cleary translates another important Japanese classic on leadership and The Book of Family Traditions on the Art of War by Yagyu Munenori, which highlights the ethical and spiritual insights of Taoism and Zen as they apply to the way of the warrior.]]> 161 Miyamoto Musashi 0877739986 Carl 5 3.76 1645 Book of Five Rings (Shambhala Pocket Classics)
author: Miyamoto Musashi
name: Carl
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1645
rating: 5
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