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Nickname: myinnervoice
Location: Rocklin, CA USA
In My Own Words:
Kabbalah, is where thought is born. where the music comes from. Even Hemingway, the quintessence of being down to earth, titled his first book 'the Sun also Rises.'
Yes, it does.
I choose books which give me a space to inhabit. A book should be an experience.
My wife and I have a dog, two young children, and we live in Rocklin California. We are the same as you. We are one of you.
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I am a Blackberry 8830 user for 3 years with Verizon. The only reason I switched to Storm is because my third Blackberry in 2 years dropped dead. Once I got the Storm. I am annoyed at the keyboard feature, that kills any spontaneity , implicitly the creativity. I feel like a child making the effort to write by hand letter A of the alphabet.
Sure it has a bigger screen, clearer letters etc. There are insistent rumors that a Blackberry 2 will be released end of September in Verizon. Some say it will have a real keyboard, not just a touch screen.
I tried to write a message in Romanian, or Spanish but the keyboard was dictating me English spellings. I did not have… Read more
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
From nearly 1,400 reviews, nearly 1,000 are favorable, There are over a hundred reviews that complain about the simplicity, nothing new under the sun. They are more complicated readers who perhaps like deeper philosophy books most people never touch.
It strikes me the similarity of the Alchemist to Rabbi Nachman's of Breslov stories: The Lost Princes, The Seven Beggars, The master of prayer. They were written 200 years ago, and they are still interpreted today. The erudition of Rabbi Nachman and his Talmudic and Kabbala interpretations are deep and hard to visualize without help.
In 1802 Rebbe Nachman moved to Breslov, finding an allusion in the town's name to the… Read more
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Disgrace is not about a rape. It is not about an University professor having affairs with students. The fact that he is 50sh, the fact that he has a daughter running a kennel in the countryside are not relevant.
The book is about the condition of living as a white in South Africa today. The rape is not an ordinary rape, it is a bloody premeditated vengeance on an innocent victim who must leave for ever. The living in the country is not an expression of freedom any more. It is nightmare that rapists, African rapists will come again and again and again, until David Lurie's daughter will have to leave.
She wants badly to stay. She even considers that raping is a price… Read more
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