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30 Books to Read Before You Die
I love literature, as we all already know. But the one thing I love most of all is sharing my love for literature with everyone else by giving people recommendations and asking for recommendations from others. I like reading new and exciting things that I haven't read before as well as reading around and deeply into my favourite genres. At the time this article was written, I was going through a phase of reading biographies of classic Hollywood actors and actresses.
By Annie Kapur7 years ago in Geeks
The 5 Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books for Young Adults and Teen Girls
Top Five Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books/Series for Girls Picking books that hold their interest, and do not seem juvenile, but also do not introduce overly adult themes, is difficult. In my experience, science fiction and fantasy books can be great choices for young adult girls. Many of today's Sci-Fi and fantasy books feature strong young women—heroines that are worth looking up to—and present enduring themes. The fanciful worlds in these books can help girls escape from an adolescents' complex world, while providing entertainment, and maybe even some important life lessons.
By Terry Stone7 years ago in Geeks
The 'Harry Potter' Series—Books, Films, and More, Part 1
An Introduction Thankfully, a girlfriend at the time convinced me to watch one of the movies with her. While it wasn't love at first sight, I was curious, and wanted more. Finally, I watched the first four movies, then realized that I needed to read the books. Once I started reading the books, I was hooked. I remember waiting with bated breath for the seventh book to finally be released. We had pre-ordered two just so we could read them at the same time. Now, my wife and I love having Harry Potter weekends, where we watch all of the movies back to back, and I've gradually made my way through all of the books multiple times. I just received the complete book set for Christmas, and I am almost done—I would have been done sooner, but with school and work, reading has become a bit of a luxury. The series is complete, and meaningful to me, and I'm always sad when I'm done reading the books, or watching the movies—like I've lost a few good friends. This hub is an overview of the entire series, including books and movies, as well as an overview of Harry Potter World at Universal Studios, Orlando.
By Terry Stone7 years ago in Geeks
'Mahabharata' (Pt. 3)
The very first book depicts the society of the Vedic period in India. Called the Adi Parva it depicts the caste system and how class and society works in the Middle Vedic Era. If we were to take this as how the text depicts a historical era, we look at the fact that it is the middle of the Vedic era and that these castes have been established since the beginning of both sides of the war, especially the Puranas. The beginning of the Vedic era starts with the establishment of the Kuru Kingdom and, by the height of its political power—it would be well established into the families mentioned within the text. Thus, it shows historical accuracy and can be placed within that particular time period.
By Annie Kapur7 years ago in Geeks
'Mahabharata' (Pt. 2)
Now we're going to look at the perspective of philosophy and how this suggests at the historical accuracy of the narrative. This is still working inside the text; we're looking and what happened, how do we know when it happened in terms of a time frame —and how historical sources support or oppose this. Philosophy is one of the ways in which we can gage a time frame. For example, we know that if a text was written in the ancient times and iterates Socratic philosophy that it was probably written in the times just after the death of Socrates when his philosophical views were at their most famous and important. We're going to do the same for the Mahabharata, we're going to place it in a philosophical time frame.
By Annie Kapur7 years ago in Geeks
'Mahabharata'
It stands at seven times the length of Homer's poetic epics of ancient Greece, it is over 1.8 million words long and even the abridged version is just under 1,000 pages. With 200,000 verses, it is the longest poem in all of existence and is more than twice as long as than the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid and Divine Comedy put together.
By Annie Kapur7 years ago in Geeks
Books Published in the 1950s that You Should Definitely Read Before You Die
There are a ton of books you should definitely read, but in this article we're going to explore some books from the 1950s that you should definitely read. Yes, there are a number of great authors from this era, but we want to explore different books by different authors. This means you may or may not see your favourites on this list. I'll be going through my own personal favourites in some more detail; however most of this will just be a list. I have read all the books I put on the list (I never add anything I haven't read myself!) and if you'd like to talk to me more about these books then I'd love to—my social media handles are in my bio at the end of the article.
By Annie Kapur7 years ago in Geeks
'The Iliad' by Homer (Pt. 4)
The way in which the ancient Greeks of classical Greece thought about the Iliad was not how we do today. In the 21st century, we understand that there are things far too impossible about the Iliad to believe and can distinguish between what seems to be realistic and what is a fabrication for entertainment purposes. But, in classical Greece, they tended to think of this text entirely as a history. This book was a form of historical documentation and, in this day and age that we live in, we must agree with them to some percentage. Believe it or not, there's evidence that this war happened. What we're going to look at now is the evidence for the Trojan War taking place in the time and place it did—uncovering the reality of it and debunking the myths. As we have seen in the various texts we have looked at that are based in The Iliad's story, we can see that there was treatment of the Iliad as some sort of fact. Especially in The Aeneid in which the fall of Troy is part of the imagined genealogy of the Romans from Aeneas to Augustus. The fact that the Aeneid is meant to act as a genealogy and a history of the discovery and first generations of Rome means that this culture must have treated The Iliad as its own history as well as the rest of the epic cycle as The Aeneid includes the book that to our day, is now missing; it is called Iliou Persis.
By Annie Kapur7 years ago in Geeks
'The Iliad' by Homer (Pt. 3)
Now, we are well aware of what went on during the era in which the war took place and we have asked ourselves the Homeric questions regarding the writing of the text. We want to explore whether the characters have any historical groundings. We know for a fact that Troy most probably existed exactly where we have now found it and we know about the Greek empire during the Late Bronze Age, but we do not know about the characters and their sources. In understanding this, we may understand the way in which the epic serves as not only a poem, but also as a historical source or a historical bias in order to influence an entire culture of people for the next 500 plus years.
By Annie Kapur7 years ago in Geeks
