(no subject)
May. 1st, 2006 05:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnyOkay, brief descriptions (taken from blurbs, because I'm determined to break tradition and read one of the books I haven't read before) behind the cut.
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle: Haruki Murakami
"As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life - spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table - are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell."
The Blind Watchmaker: Richard Dawkins
"Richard Dawkins' brilliant and contoversial book has become a landmark account. Here he vividly demonstrates that evolution by natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process discovered by Darwin - is the only answer to the biggest question of all: why do we exist?"
Under The Frog: Tibor Fischer
"In this spirited endictment of totalitarianism, the two improbable heroes, Pataki and Gyuri, travel the length and breadth of Hungary in an epic quest for food, lodging, and female companionship."
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Diana and Michael Preston
"A curious man in a curious age, now all but forgotten in his native country, William Dampier combined a swashbuckling life of adventure with remarkable scientific achievements."
In Watermelon Sugar: Richard Brautigan
"iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day, and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and hate of the old gang at the Forgotten Works, they lead gentle lives in watermelon sugar."
Rhinoceros, the Chairs & the Lesson: Eugéne Ionesco
"In these three 'antiplays' dream, nonsense and fantasy combine to create an unsettling, bizarre view of society."
[Poll #720459]
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle: Haruki Murakami
"As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life - spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table - are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell."
The Blind Watchmaker: Richard Dawkins
"Richard Dawkins' brilliant and contoversial book has become a landmark account. Here he vividly demonstrates that evolution by natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process discovered by Darwin - is the only answer to the biggest question of all: why do we exist?"
Under The Frog: Tibor Fischer
"In this spirited endictment of totalitarianism, the two improbable heroes, Pataki and Gyuri, travel the length and breadth of Hungary in an epic quest for food, lodging, and female companionship."
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Diana and Michael Preston
"A curious man in a curious age, now all but forgotten in his native country, William Dampier combined a swashbuckling life of adventure with remarkable scientific achievements."
In Watermelon Sugar: Richard Brautigan
"iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day, and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and hate of the old gang at the Forgotten Works, they lead gentle lives in watermelon sugar."
Rhinoceros, the Chairs & the Lesson: Eugéne Ionesco
"In these three 'antiplays' dream, nonsense and fantasy combine to create an unsettling, bizarre view of society."
[Poll #720459]
