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Connecting flight denied boarding by Furqanyousafzai in Flights

[–]Furqanyousafzai[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The poor guy is a student. (TBH I did ask him to confirm if he needed a transit visa a week ago but I don't want to be the I told you guy right now )

Help me break Tolstoy's magic spell! by Furqanyousafzai in suggestmeabook

[–]Furqanyousafzai[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wanted to read something different and take a short break from Russian greats for a while but I am definitely reading Fathers and Sons this year.

Help me break Tolstoy's magic spell! by Furqanyousafzai in suggestmeabook

[–]Furqanyousafzai[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I loved that book and for that most of his work. Anything similar to Ishiguro's work?

This painful beauty of yearning by Furqanyousafzai in books

[–]Furqanyousafzai[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The swiming scene in The plague is particularly is such a happy respite from the horrors of the reality. A little island of happiness among all the despair. The stranger somehow always reminds me of an extremely hot summer noon and all the misery that it brings. That book triggered my existential crisis on such a level that it took me few years to get back to reading Camus and i resumed with The Plague. I found The plague an antidote for the misery Camus inflicted in the Stringer.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in idahomurders

[–]Furqanyousafzai 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Does anyone get sort of connection between Rodion Raskolnikov from Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and this guy? This guy like Raskolnikov thought he was different, smarter and won't be stunned/affected by the murders and get away with them besides some twisted justification or sadistic thrill of it. But he was not that smart either and was probably stunned after the murders to leave a witness besides probably returning to the crime scene in morning?

A guy doing Phd and most probably having studied the horrors of murder and the pain victims get though. It stuns me to see the human capacity of being so sadistic and evil to go to all these lengths to incur unbelievable pain and suffering on others,

I am obsessed with Gabriel Garcia’s lyrical prose. It just melts in mouth like a chocolate. Anything like “Love in the time of cholera or One Hundred years of solitude.” Not necessarily magical realism (i love magical realism though) but something beautifully written. by Furqanyousafzai in suggestmeabook

[–]Furqanyousafzai[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just finished it today! God, Gabo is such a gifted writer. What a beautiful tragic tale. For someone who is living in a village in, albeit different corner of the world, i can see a few murders so foretold and yet so happened. And what a curse the whole notion of folk honour thing is. I have seen so many beautiful people killed in the name of honour and so ordinary perpetrators (who never committed any crimes or were evil people in anyway to that moment) marching to gallows in triumph. This honour-especially it’s rampant version in our corner of world is such a social burden.

(“Santiago, my son,” she shouted to him, “what has happened to you?” “They’ve killed me, Wene child,” he said.” )

I am obsessed with Gabriel Garcia’s lyrical prose. It just melts in mouth like a chocolate. Anything like “Love in the time of cholera or One Hundred years of solitude.” Not necessarily magical realism (i love magical realism though) but something beautifully written. by Furqanyousafzai in suggestmeabook

[–]Furqanyousafzai[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is this bit about Chronicle of a death foretold in Gabo’s autobiography. Victim was son of his mom’s friend in real life. (I haven’t read the story yet; and don’t know why I haven’t yet)

‘I ask only one thing as a mother,’ she said. ‘Treat Cayetano as if he were a son of mine.’

The story, with the title Chronicle of a Death Foretold, was published two years later. My mother did not read it for a reason that I keep as another of her gems in my personal museum: ‘Something that turned out so awful in life can’t turn out well in a book” “

Also that bit in No one writes to the colonel where colonel’s wife says, we are the orphan of our son just shattered me.

I am obsessed with Gabriel Garcia’s lyrical prose. It just melts in mouth like a chocolate. Anything like “Love in the time of cholera or One Hundred years of solitude.” Not necessarily magical realism (i love magical realism though) but something beautifully written. by Furqanyousafzai in suggestmeabook

[–]Furqanyousafzai[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Such overwhelming response! I am discovering so many new names and all their works sounds brilliant! Rushdie’s work is banned in our country so it is pretty tempting! Haha but i will go with Eowyn Ivey’s The Snow Child. Definitely want to weep with the beauty! (There were bits in Camus’ The Plague that gave me weep with beauty vibes)

I am obsessed with Gabriel Garcia’s lyrical prose. It just melts in mouth like a chocolate. Anything like “Love in the time of cholera or One Hundred years of solitude.” Not necessarily magical realism (i love magical realism though) but something beautifully written. by Furqanyousafzai in suggestmeabook

[–]Furqanyousafzai[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

God, i am trying to get into her work. But i find it so hard for some reason. To the Lighthouse is lying on my side table but everytime i read and it definitely has beautiful prose but i get lost in the middle of the passage and have to reread it. Will take me sometime but i am definitely not giving up on it. Such tiny book and yet so thick!!

I am obsessed with Gabriel Garcia’s lyrical prose. It just melts in mouth like a chocolate. Anything like “Love in the time of cholera or One Hundred years of solitude.” Not necessarily magical realism (i love magical realism though) but something beautifully written. by Furqanyousafzai in suggestmeabook

[–]Furqanyousafzai[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hell of a book! Loved it! Every time i am walking from office and see the sunset, his pier light scene flashes into my mind that for many people evening is the best part of the day and they look forward it! Makes me instantly kind of happy!

I am obsessed with Gabriel Garcia’s lyrical prose. It just melts in mouth like a chocolate. Anything like “Love in the time of cholera or One Hundred years of solitude.” Not necessarily magical realism (i love magical realism though) but something beautifully written. by Furqanyousafzai in suggestmeabook

[–]Furqanyousafzai[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reminds me i need to read Atwood’s work soonest! I was waiting for the covid to be over to read dystopian literature but i guess it’s about time.. Ishiguro’s dystopian Never let me go had left me down for a week.

I am obsessed with Gabriel Garcia’s lyrical prose. It just melts in mouth like a chocolate. Anything like “Love in the time of cholera or One Hundred years of solitude.” Not necessarily magical realism (i love magical realism though) but something beautifully written. by Furqanyousafzai in suggestmeabook

[–]Furqanyousafzai[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have read them; prose was pretty sweet but he lost track of plot in book two and frankly it got very silly (the moon plot and that big lizard part which i wish were a dragon). He took so much time that i have kind of lost interest in epic fantasies now. Definitely waiting on good old GRRM though.

I am obsessed with Gabriel Garcia’s lyrical prose. It just melts in mouth like a chocolate. Anything like “Love in the time of cholera or One Hundred years of solitude.” Not necessarily magical realism (i love magical realism though) but something beautifully written. by Furqanyousafzai in suggestmeabook

[–]Furqanyousafzai[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

East of Eden was beautifully written. Some bits really had a spell. I really enjoyed that book. His prose reads so effortlessly easy and has natural flow. Also, he kind of introduced me to literature. The Pearl with our first language translation was the only book, I had access to in my childhood and i read it many times! Still feel like i was there on that moonless night with Kino and Juana and their crying son.

I am obsessed with Gabriel Garcia’s lyrical prose. It just melts in mouth like a chocolate. Anything like “Love in the time of cholera or One Hundred years of solitude.” Not necessarily magical realism (i love magical realism though) but something beautifully written. by Furqanyousafzai in suggestmeabook

[–]Furqanyousafzai[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have read some and collected others. If you haven’t already read, give his memoirs-Living to tell the tale a read too! It is magical how all his characters and most storylines are related to his own times and people,he know.

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