The Effort to Fall [Paperback]

Christopher Spranger (Author)

Book Description

Series: Green Integer | Publication Date: May 15, 1998

A new book of aphoristic writing by young Californian Christopher Spranger.

Product Details

• Paperback: 107 pages
• Publisher: Green Integer; 1 edition (May 15, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1892295008
• ISBN-13: 978-1892295002
• Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 4.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,592,428 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent, January 31, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Effort to Fall (Paperback)

The somewhat aphoristic form of these writings is the perfect vehicle for the quick, sharp, and profound thrust of the knife into the whatever of existence. This work is brilliant, in every measure of the word. Extraordinary.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A book for anyone with a mind and a heart., January 30, 2000

By 

Jose J. Rojo - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Effort to Fall (Paperback)

It's quite simple: The Effort To Fall is a book written excusively for the sensitive, the perceptive, and the intelligent. (Ultimately not a single one of these three qualities can exist in a person without the others, but that is another matter entirely).

The only negative opinion I have ever heard about this book was expressed, quite obiously, by someone lacking in all of these qualities.

This is to date one of the top works of this and last century. It's nothing short of a crime that more people haven't been exposed to its beauty.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars epigrams, essays and outbursts, March 6, 2003

By 

Amber Allen (Longmont, CO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Effort to Fall (Paperback)

book of epigrams, essays and outbursts on various subjects, like
literature (see the section: "The Word Defiled), music (see: "
Dialogues with Silence") and love.

Here are a few of my favorites, to give you a taste:

If there is a pleasure involved in looking at things, it is the
pleasure of being neither them nor ourselves. Sight allows us to slip
between the weight of our own being and that of the world and to unwind
in the emptiness between them.

Crucifixion is a piece of extravagance which only a god of Christ's
caliber could have gotten away with. Could a Jupiter or a Vishnu have
retained his clout nailed to a cross?

The ultimate thief, music steals from us our dreams, our emotions, and
our memories, and then disappears without a trace.

After spending the day in solitude, you desire to go out in the evening
with friends, and after going out in the evening with friends, to spend
the rest of your days in solitude.

The more debauched one becomes, the more one's fantasies revolve
around chastity.

God does not have the monopoly on omnipresence: this is a privilege
enjoyed by Injustice as well.

The writer, making every effort to appear innocent and noble, takes his
revenge with the pen; while the murderer, less hypocritical, takes it
with the sword.