Books

I do want to digitally track my mental book inventory, but haven't found a perfect software solution yet. For now, my strategy is to build a home library of books I loved. And share those that left no impact on me with the world.

Books are always personal. Somehow, more personal to me than any other media. So, for this category, I opted to create lists within a list. Their contents are, of course, a work in progress.

~ Best writing talent ~

Nikolai Gogol Vladimir Nabokov Henry James J. K. Rowling Venedikt Yerofeyev Haruki Murakami Andrei Platonov Umberto Eco Stendhal Fernando Pessoa Fazil Iskander Boris Zhidkov Jane Austen Mark Twain Edgar Allan Poe

~ Well written non-fiction books ~

Writing ability is very rare among non-fiction writers. That's why it is so hard to read these books — it's not your attention span. I will list the ones I found not only curious but well written.


"The Story of Art" by Ernst Gombrich "The Code Book" by Simon Singh "Don't Shoot the Dog" by Karen Pryor "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales " by Oliver Sacks "Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely

~ Poets whose poems are good ~

My overall firm belief is that poetry is not necessary in this world. It is a means to torture language — for those incapable of using it in all its glory. Poetry is grimacing, crawling, suffocating. There are only a few exceptions in this world — and most of them are better off as prose writers.


William Shakespeare Edgar Allan Poe Vladimir Mayakovsky

~ Most fascinating autobiographies and correspondences ~


"Agatha Christie: An Autobiography" "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" Memoirs of Felix Yusupov Van Gogh's letters to brother Theo "Auguste Rodin on Art and Literature" "Diary of a Genius" by Salvador Dali

Movies

This one's simple. I have a Kinopoisk profile.

More to come...