Review:tHIS IS mILTON'S CONTINUATION OF pARADISE lOST. pARADISE IS REGAINED UPON cHRIST'S ENTRANCE ON THE EARTH. iT BEGINS WITH cHRIST;S BAPTISM wHERE sATAN IS PRESENT AND WHO FOLLOWS cHRIST INTO THE DESERT AND TEMPTS HIM TO SHOW HIS POWER BY TURNING THE STONES INTO BREAD. i USED IT IN CONNECTION WITH THE SEASON OF LENT AND THE FORTY DAYS Christ fasted in the desert. Read more

Review:This Modern Library edition is gorgeously printed and well-annotated with invaluable critical notes that will make the work vastly more accessible to the average person while providing useful background to others. I would have preferred it to have included Paradise Regained, however, as I think it's an important companion to the work. Those with more of an interest in literary criticism or who wish to more vigorously digest and dissect the poem would be advised to steer themselves towards the No... Read more

Review:it's raw with so much emotion (said from a emotional person perspective). I found myself just as in milk and honey marking page after page. However some of it does sound like it was repeating mostly in the first chaper which was hard and rather boring for me to get through. Some pages are one sentence which saddens me as though she was just trying to make the book bigger or needed to fill a page. Read more

Review:"Let me at least not die without a struggle, inglorious, but do some big thing first, that men to come shall know of it." -Homer (Hector speaking)

The Conflict

At the brink of war, two great nations fought for the sake of glory and honor. One for the rescuing of Helen, the wife of Agamemnon, who was stolen by Paris, and the other for the protection of the fate of Ilium. On the defensive you have the Trojans of Ilium (commonly referred to as Troy), and on the offensive you have the ... Read more

Review:I am no intellectual, and stumbled upon this book through a ladies' magazine article asking celebs what they were reading. Elizabeth Shue, whose talent I really enjoy, mentioned Letters to a Young Poet. The book is for the open-minded and the big- hearted, teachable few that possess the intellectual chops to parse and absorb the beauty of Rilke's words and insight. It is both a comfort and an inspiration. I LOVE this book. Buy it, and share some time with it, and yourself. Read more

Review:This excellent book entitled, "Thirst" by Mary Oliver, is very exciting to read. The poems are realistic, contemporary, and inspiring to the soul. It leaves one with a sense of feeling which brings tranquility to the mind, body and spirit.

The architectural style of the poems is very pleasing to the eyes and actually gives a different feeling while reading the lines. The variation of such designs makes the poems easier to read. Her innovative style of writing also makes the poems very int... Read more

Review:Amazing author, motivational speaker and purveyor of good love, please get this book for your friends, your girlfriend, your BEST friend---any man that is looking for the words to say about the feelings they have for ladies. Thank you Alex for this read :) Read more

Review:True
one of Lorea's best lines is,
"agony, always...
agony"
think of this when you
kill a cockroach or
pick up a razor to shave
or awaken in the morning to
face the sun
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"sometimes all we need to be able to continue
are the dead
rattling the walls
that close us in."
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"it felt like screaming in a madhouse
the madhouse of my world"
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A Cat is a Cat is a Cat
"he [Beethoven] did fine
for what he was
but I wouldn't want<... Read more

Review:The photography and the aesthetic of this book are beautiful. It might be worth having just for the sake of having something so pretty. As for the poetry- I was a little disappointed. Based on what I'd seen of Gregson's work floating around on the internet, and the many good reviews, I had high hopes. But all the poems are very short, with little substance, and many seem to be very minimally different versions of the same love poem. A couple did stand out to me (not that I can reference them as ... Read more

Review:EATERS OF THE DEAD is an interesting historical novel that takes place in 922 A.D., during the time of the Vikings. Michael Crichton uses this time period to essentially retell the story of BEOWULF, which he felt was too boring and tedious for modern audiences. The story involves a small band of Vikings that journey northward to attack a group of monsters (whose true identity is revealed at the end of the book).

This book is actually pretty interesting, but it's told in rather dry, old-... Read more