Maximus Powers': Books To Read Before You Die

[MAXIMUS POWERS]

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Hilarious. Deep. Amazing. Saramago's humor and insight are so transcendent that they translate effortlessly into English. This is a must read.

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A beautifully written classic about betrayal, bitterness, and revenge that is eventually tempered by true friendship and love. 8/10

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Politically enraging, sharp written prose, cuts against the ideals of a capitalism. a book about humanity. Carefully weaving the plant life, the mass Exodus of migrant workers, and a single family among those migrant workers, Steinbeck provides us with a literary masterpiece that goes down in the cannon of classic fiction. That something as wonderfully moving could come out of such dispair is the bittersweet nectar that flows from the California crops these hungry hands read for. I was riveted and charged. This is real, gritty stuff. Wonderful.

[Cyber_Nomad]

Nice listings heres a couple of my favorites

 

 

Although not a novel but this book is a must for anyone who wants to understand Somalia in the late 80's - though the author isn't quite neutral-.

 

 

 

[MAXIMUS POWERS]

^Interesting selection!

[Cyber_Nomad]

Thanks your list had one of my favorites 100 years of solitude, well im off to check those books you listed

[MAXIMUS POWERS]

If you have any suggestions or a list, let me know!. I am sure we have a similar taste based on your selection.

[Chimera]

 

[Chimera]

I'm trying to get my hands on Sina and the Eagle of Doom:

 

 

[NASSIR]

 

Great great, page-turning, superbly written book based on a true narrative account.

 

Figure who is that guy in the middle wearing the shalwar khameez

[Alpha Blondy]

 

 

After many years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan, eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back home, he discovers a stranger among the familiar faces of childhood—the enigmatic Mustafa Sa’eed. Mustafa takes the young man into his confidence, telling him the story of his own years in London in the early part of the twentieth century, of his brilliant career as an economist, and of the series of fraught and deadly relationships with European women that led to a terrible public reckoning and his return to his native land.

 

But what is the meaning of Mustafa’s shocking confession? Mustafa disappears without explanation, leaving the young man —whom he has asked to look after his wife—in an unsettled and violent no-man’s-land between Europe and Africa, tradition and innovation, holiness and defilement, and man and woman, from which no one will escape unaltered or unharmed.