William Shakespear

My favourite quote:

Macbeth:
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

The Great Gatsby

After I had finished my second year of high school I got a book from my teacher for good marks (it is a common prize for good results at Polish schools :))... But! It wasn't a boring science book... I recieved  "the Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fortuneatly there was a movie on at the cinema, so the book has been at the bookshops.
I didn't want to see the movie. But I was interested in this book. So I started. It was holiday, so there wasn't much time... But I wanted and I read it.

I suppose that everybody who is a native english and attend to english literature classes have read this one..

It seems that it is just a book about some guy who is so rich that throws a parties every week that all of the New Yorkers want to attend. But the funny thing is that no one knows Gatsby and what he looks like. Everybody has heard of him, of his parties but no one knew him by themselves.
The book starts when the main character Nick moves in the house next to the Gatsby's. He met him and wierd things are going on between old friends. For example, Gatsby wanted to meet Daisy, his old girlfriend who had broken up with him because she hadn't wanted to wait for him until he became rich, but as far he was poor and I don't think she had believed he would ever become one. So she married Tom. And Gatsby wanted Daisy back.
The saddest thing in this book is when Gatsby is assassined by a man who thought Gatsby had killed his wife in a car accident. Of course Gatsby didn't do that. It was Daisy whom Gatsby covered. The murderer thought also like that because of the Daisy's husband's betrayal. He was collapsed because the woman who had died was his lover. But after all, Nick had to organise a funeral. And here was the biggest problem, what is the saddest part of the book. There was no one who wanted to come. Everyone wanted to attend his parties, see his wealth but no one wanted to come at his funeral. The only persons who came was Nick and Gatsby's father, Mr. Gatz. He told Nick that Gatsby's real name is James Gatz, that he comes from poor family from North Dakota. It was shocking, because Gatsby told Nick that he comes from rich family from San Francisco.

(Allow me to degress a little: I don't like when people do a such thing... That they lie just to be seen as better, to think he is better... I don't like when people are ashamed of the place and family they come from... And these are not just empty words because I come from a little village in Poland, I doubt if there are more than few people who acctually know where Poland is... And no one in Poland knows where my village is. ;x But I am not ashamed. I am proud cause i could have met people i met and become a person i have become. )

I like this book because I like sad endings. I like to cry when something bad is going on with the main character. It is silly, but when it happens I really enjoy reading the book. There are a lot of things I didn't understand in "Great Gatsby", like bilboard with big eyes and glasses... But, I enjoyed it anyway.

Cemetery of the Books World

I decided to continue to write about my favourite book and its world. Because it is so interesting for me, that it deserve more than one post.

Alors,
There are three parts of this story:
first book : "Shadow of the Wind",
second is "The Angel's Game"
and the third is "Prisoner of Heaven"
There is going to be fourth book and I am long to read it. I acctually check it all the time whether it was published yet or not.

The thing about the titles:
I love the way Zafon came up with it. They are a paradox, two words eliminate each other, it is some kinda oxymoron... I love it :D first: Shadow of the wind - we are not able to see the wind and neither its shadow. And its funny because I don't see the connection between the title and the plot... or maybe i missed something... not sure.
next: The Angel's Game - angel is pure goodness, it is close to God, almost perfect, Guardian Angel - someone who cares about us, who watch us all the time and protect us from all the bad things. And someone who's playing with us in some game? something's not right... And here, I see obvious connection to the title: Andreas Corelli is an angel but the fallen one. He's playing with David's mind. He meets him at the great villa, where everything overwhelm David, and the next day it's empty ruin for many years.
next: Prisoner of Heaven - heaven is something where we feel joy, freedom and here we have a prisoner- someone who is not free, who is limitted. So how can anyone be a Prisoner of Heaven? I guess it is about prison for mind. In this book David is in prison (he is not mentioned in the first book of the serie and in this one he is only mentioned, this continue the first book's plot) but he is treated well, he has everything he wants.

The serie of Cemetery of the Books
 The thing that connects this serie is Cemetery of the Books, Sempere family and their bookstore. The interesting place is of course Cemetery of the Books because it is a place which is known only by people who can be trusted and there are few people who know about it. The place is hidden under Barcelona. It is build with the books, and I mean it: the walls of books create the halls, the shelves are built with books. It acctually sounds awesome for me. All you can see there are books. Sounds wonderful. The rule of this place is that you cannot tell anyone, unless he deserves it and can be trusted. The next rule is that when you are there for the first time, you have to choose one book and be its guardian until your death. It is about not forgetting books that are forgotten... :P. To keep the book alive, it must be remembered and read all over again. that's why you guard your book which you have chosen.

The Angel's Game

"The Angel's Game" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

This is my favourite book among all of these I have read. I found it at my sister's shelf, by accident. I was just bored and I wanted to read something. I had two options: "The Angel's Game" by some author I haven't heard about.... and one of Paulo Coelho's book (my sister liked his books very much when she was a teenager). I just thought that this one with mysterious title will be more interesting. So I started... And I couldn't stop...

It is about a writer who was commissioned to write a religion book like "new Bible" by mysterious publisher Andreas Corelli. This character is really odd, and it seems that he has a magic power. For me he is somebody like devil who makes a pact with human (so it is a bit similar to Faust but the main character of this book : David Martin gets only money and wierd experience). From the other sight, it seems like David has only imaginations about this figure and he  doesn't really exist which is in some way confirmed in the next Zafón's books.  This book is also about love, murders and unsolved cases. So it is really Mysterious book with a capital M. Of course the murders in this plot are conected with the main character but from the David's point of view , he didn't commit any of them. But in the same time he is charged...
I love this book because of its mysterious. There are a lot of things that I'm not sure if they are true or not.

This is my favourite book because when I read it I am overwhelmed of it. There is a beautiful love but the lovers can't be together and finelly one of them is dead of course in mysterious way which is veeery sad...You love your character David and you feel like you were him: when he's in trouble, you feel like you were in trouble, when he lose his love it is your heart which is broken, you cry.
I also love the part in this book which is at more or less the end of the book when everything you have read comes out as NOT TRUE. it was really confusing...Because you don't know if it was true, or not... and the Book doesn't answear this question, and neither the next one in this serie. But i loved this part just because of that.

I cannot wait until the next part will be published... to know how the plot ends and what was true and what was not.