1 post tagged “voltaire”
1. Secret Societies
2. 1984
3. Animal Farm
4. Cicero
5. Catch-22
6. Dumb Witness
7. Lord of the Flies
8. The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
9. Ulysses
10. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
11. The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time
12. Girl With A Pearl Earring
13. Candide by Voltaire
An intensely critical and humorous piece of work and in light of the events around Voltaire's life at the time of writing, a pretty brutal recanting of the religious theory that 'all is best that is'.
I find Albom's work a bit on the Lifetime Original movie flavor of work, though having read it just after Mother's Day really let it's point hit home to me: tell your mother you love her and don't let the last things you've said to her be in anger or a lie (or both in this case). A bit syrupy at times, but I find the style refreshing, especially when I'm looking for an easy read.
