your favourite writer Poet or Philosoph (31)

*We may rise or fall, but in the end we'll meet our fate together*

*A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out*

*Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down*

*Some things are interesting and exciting,while other things are important*

*Love is not blind.It sees more, not less,but because it sees more, it is willing to see less*

i like Henning Mankell as well. Haven't read much of him, but "the white lioness" and some summaries of others. Seems good!

He lives between Mozambique-my country where he is an immigrant...not to find job and Sweeden.

Henning Mankell is great, I've read most of his books, and they are all great.

My favourite writer has to be Roald Dahl!

How wonderful of you all to revive that thread -
I just found it again.. thanks for the quotes and sharing your readings

anyone has written a poem or a thought to share ?

mine would be :

not one day will be like another when you care and share, giving a thought about the world around you

I like free style of Geoffrey Chaucer - THE CANTERBURY TALES

I havent a favourite author although some are near favourites. John le Carre and Ian McEwan for fiction. Pankaj Mishra, among others, for non-fiction (eg.An End to Suffering - it's about the Buddha). I find a lot of very good writing in Granta literary magazine.

Bill Bryson is great reading. Try Mother Tongue - possibly his first book - by him. Many years ago I turned the pages of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose butI had to give up. I'm afraid Eco presupposes too high a level of classical literacy and latin and for my comfort. Gore Vidal's novels were fantastic but I havent read him in many years. Chomsky I read in my college days when I was a bit 'reddish'. I recently read Henning Mankell and it was interesting. I recently read The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova and it was terrific. Admittedly the subject was strange - it was the Dracula story in the modern world. For cheap thrills I would recommend this.

This subject can be so fascinating I wish it would continue.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery's "The little prince".

"The Trial of Socrates", how relevant today, the simple act of fredom of thought

All depends on what interpretation you accept of the trial and death of Socrates. There can be several. As you know, he didnt have to die - he chose to die.

There has been some mythologising about Soc.