Books that can be read in a few hours
Books / / December 19, 2019
1. "The Old Man and the Sea", Ernest Hemingway
"The old man threw the woods, stepped on her foot, lifted the harpoon as high as he could and with all his strength, which he had, and he was able to in this minute to collect, thrust the spear into the side of the fish, just behind its huge pectoral fin, rose high above sea level to the level of human chest. He felt like part of the iron in the flesh, and, leaning into the harpoon thrust him deeper and deeper, helping himself with all his weight.
Then the fish came alive, though, and has carried a death - it rose high above the water, like boasting its enormous length and width, all of its beauty and power. She seemed to be hanging in the air over the old man and the boat. She crashed into the sea, the Gulf of water flows and the old man, and all his boat. "
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2. "Roadside Picnic", Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
"No, guys, it's hard to describe this thing, if you have not seen, very much it is easy to look at, especially when you look close, and finally believe my eyes. It's like a glass of someone describe or, God forbid, a glass: only your fingers move and cursing from complete impotence. Okay, let's assume that you understand, and if someone does not understand, take the institute "Reports" - there in any edition of articles about these "dummy" with photos... "
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3. "Omon Ra", Victor Pelevin
"The model rocket was assembled rather arbitrary, sometimes even just knocked together from boards, and the only jobs crew faithfully replicate real. All this is intended for practical training that we Mitiok should begin not soon. But despite this, we were moved to live deep down in the box with two large paintings depicting windows with panoramic views under construction in Moscow. There stood seven beds, and Mitiok realized that soon we are waiting for the completion. "
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4. "Cat unvarnished," Terry Pratchett
"Just as bochonochnoe beer very often superseded the good old ale, in recent years, many people began to prefer devoid of all individuality standardized cats. And let their pets faceless pyshut health and shines from vitamins, they not hold a candle real cats. Movement in defense of these cats is designed to help people distinguish the genuine representatives of the cat family from all sorts tailed products of mass culture. It was this book written for this purpose - the protection of the true cats and cats against bochonochnyh ".
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5. "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams
"And once on Thursday, after the rain, after nearly two thousand years after one man nailed nailed to the tree for what he called at least sometimes, just for a change, to treat each other in a good, kind girl sitting alone at a table a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly guessed, what it was the rub, and how the world is still possible to make the abode of happiness and rest. This time, the trick is done, all will certainly succeed - and no nails and prikolachivany living people to trees or anything else! "
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6. "Secret Diary of Adrian Mole," Sue Townsend
"Today in class drawing was wildly exciting. I drew a lonely guy standing on the bridge. His first love had just cheated on him with his former best friend. Former best friend floundering in rough river. Man watches as he sinks. Former best friend a little bit like Nigel, and the guy at me. Miss Fossington Gore said that my picture "is the depth." The river is too deep. Ha! Ha! Ha!"
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7. "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," Hunter S. Thompson
"Covered somewhere around Barstow, at the edge of the desert. I remember saying something like: "My head is spinning, you sit behind the wheel." Suddenly from all sides came the terrible roar, the sky filled some huge bats swooped and screeched soar around our gig, which was racing with the roof down in Las Vegas at a speed of one hundred and sixty kilometers hour. There was a cry of, "Oh my God! What is that creature?! "
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8. "Amsterdam", Ian McEwan
"Poor Molly. It began with a tingling in her hand, when she caught a taxi to the restaurant, "Dorchester"; the feeling is never passed. A few weeks later she was barely remembered the words. "Parliament", "chemistry", "propeller" she could forgive himself, but the "cream", "bed", "mirror" - it was worse. When temporarily disappeared "acanthus" and "bresaola", she went to the doctor, waiting for her to calm down. However, she was sent for examination, and, one might say, there is never returned. How quickly combat Molly became sick prisoner of his surly owner-husband George. Molly, restaurant critic, photographer, woman inexhaustible wit, daring gardener, lover, Minister for Foreign Affairs, the ability to easily walk the wheel in his forty-six years. About its rapid immersion in the madness and pain all the buzz: loss of control over departures, and with it - and a sense of humor, and then - the gradual eclipse with episodes of violence of the powerless and subdued screams. "
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9. "The Catcher in the Rye" Jerome D. Salinger
- When you get over all these Messrs Vinson, you start getting closer and closer - of course if you want, if you aspire to, wait for it - you approach closer to the knowledge that will be very, very dear to your heart. And then you discover that you are not the first in whom the people and their behavior caused confusion, fear and even disgust. You will understand that it is not the one you feel that way, and it will please you, support. Many, many people have experienced the same confusion in matters of moral, mental, what you are going through right now. Fortunately, some of them recorded their experiences. From them you learn a lot - of course, if you want. As well as other ever learn from you, if you will what they say. Mutual assistance - that's fine. And it is not only in knowledge. She is poetry. She's history.
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10. "Remembering my unfortunate sluts", Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"On the day when I turned ninety, I decided to make a gift - a crazy night of love with a young virgin. I remembered Rosa Cabarcas, soderzhatelnitsu clandestine meeting house, which in the olden days, having caught in the hands of "fresh one" girl immediately notifies its good customers. I am not tempted by her vile suggestions, she did not believe in the purity of my principles. "Morality - a matter of time - she would say with a malicious smile, - the time will come, will see for yourself."
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11. "White Fang" by Jack London
"Time passed, and love, which arose from the tendency of all matured and strengthened. White Fang himself began to feel it, though unconsciously. Love gave itself felt a sense of emptiness, which persistently demanded eagerly filling. Love brought with pain and anxiety, which abated only by the touch of the hands of the new god. At this moment love becomes a joy - the unbridled joy that permeates the whole being of White Fang. But it was necessary to leave to God the pain and anxiety returned, and White Fang again covered the feeling of emptiness, a sense of hunger, imperiously demanding quench. "
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12. "Masha", Vladimir Nabokov
"With a sigh, he looked with a quiet smile on her face and raised nothing could answer her when, clutching his shoulders, it is volatile in some voice - not the previous nasal whisper - prayed, all he flew away in the words: "And tell me you finally - do you love me?" But seeing something in his face - a familiar shadow, unwittingly severity, - she remembered again what it takes to charm - sensitivity, perfume, poetry - and taken again to pretend that the poor girl is fine courtesan. "
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13. "Notes of a young doctor," Mikhail Bulgakov
"Lamp-zip with crooked tin shade was burning hot, the two horns. On the operating table, on white, oilcloth svezhepahnuschey I saw her, and hernia faded in my memory.
Bright, slightly reddish hair hanging from the table huddling withered mats. Kos was a giant, and the end of it touches the floor.
Calico skirt was torn, and blood on it in different colors - brown spot, spot fat, scarlet. Light "lightning" struck me yellow and alive, and her face paper, white, pointed nose.
On her face white as a plaster, fixed, died away really a rare beauty. Not always, not often see such a person. "
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14. "Nero Corleone" Elke Heidenreich
"And such a day Madonnina lambing. There were four kittens, and the first among them was one black - jet black as a raven's wing. No, not really black: right front paw was white. But that's not all. It was un maschio, a boy, a man, a cat. Black cat, born on Friday, November 17 at the thunder and lightning, in the afternoon, high noon. Oh oh. We called him Nero. Nero means "black."
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15. "Suitcase", Sergei Dovlatov
"I have to start with the outright recognition. I almost stole the shoes ...
Two hundred years ago the historian Karamzin visited France. Russian emigrants asked him:
- That, in a nutshell, is happening at home?
Karamzin, and the two words are not needed.
- Steal - said Karamzin ...
Indeed, they steal. And with all the flourish every year. "
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16. "Animal Farm," George Orwell
"Take from the human scene, and for all disappear cause of hunger and overwork. Man - the only creature that consumes without producing anything. He does not give milk, he does not bear the eggs, he is too weak to pull the plow, he was too slow to catch rabbits. Yet he supreme ruler over all the animals. He drives them to work, he paved to feed them just enough so they do not suffered from hunger - everything else remains in his possession. "
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17. "Donut" by Guy de Maupassant
"The conversation was, of course, the war. They told about the atrocities of the Prussians, on the courage of the French; and all these people, fleeing themselves from the enemy, praised the valor of others. Then moved to the private affairs of each, and then Donut with genuine emotion and with the vehemence with which these girls sometimes express their natural impulses, she explains why she left Rouen.
- At first I thought to remain, - she said. - My house was full of all sorts of stocks, and I would prefer to feed more soldiers than to leave their homes, God knows where. But as soon as I saw these Prussians - feel: no, do not stand! The blood began to boil, and so in me. The whole day I cried out of shame. Oh, if I were a man, I would show them... If not my maid held my hands, when I looked out the window at these fat hogs in pointed helmets, I would All their furniture pereshvyryala them in the back... Then a few people have come to me to wait, but I first grabbed throat. Well, did not the Germans just as easily stifle as well as any other? I would have killed him if I had not dragged by the hair. Well, then I had to hide... And as soon as the chance, I left. "
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18. "The Kid and Carlson", Astrid Lindgren
"In the city of Stockholm, in the most ordinary street, in the most ordinary house lives a very ordinary Swedish family of Svanteson name. This family includes the most ordinary father, a very ordinary mother of three and the most ordinary folks - Bosse, Bethan and Toddler ".
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19. "Ten Little Indians" by Agatha Christie
"Philip Lombard was quite a sight to make an impression on the girl in front of: pretty, but something in it from uchitelshi... cool and certainly knows how to stand up for themselves - and in love, and in life. And it is perhaps worthwhile to do ...
He frowned. No, no, this is not up to this. Business is business. Now we have to concentrate on work. "
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20. "The Martian Chronicles" Ray Bradbury
"And in fact: the smell of time? Dust for hours, man. And if you think about what it is - that time is - to the ear? It is like water flowing in a dark cave, sort of calling voices, like the rustle of land that rolls in on an empty box lid, like rain. Let's go a step further, ask what it looks like time? It is like snow, silently flying in the black pit, or an old silent film, in which the hundred billion people as Christmas balls, falling down, falling into nothingness. That's what it smells and this time what it is to look at and to the ear. "
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21. "Gifts of the Magi," O. Henry
"Magi who brought gifts to the baby nursery, were known to be wise, wonderfully wise men. It was they who brought fashion to make Christmas presents. And since they were wise, and their gifts were wise, maybe even agreed with the right exchange in case of duplication. And here I told you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in vosmidollarovoy flats who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their own. But let it be said as a warning to the wise of these days, that of all donors, these two were the wisest. From everyone who brings and takes gifts, truly wise just like them. Everywhere. They are the magi. "
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22. "A Study in Scarlet" by Arthur Conan Doyle
"In England, I did not have any close friends or relatives, and I was free as the wind, rather like a man who put live on eleven shillings and sixpence a day. Under such circumstances, I naturally sought in London, in this huge dustbin where inevitably fall loafers and idlers of the empire. In London I lived for some time in a hotel on the Strand and dragged uncomfortable and meaningless existence, spending their pennies much more freely than they should. Finally, my financial situation became so threatening that I soon realized that it is necessary either to flee the capital and vegetate somewhere in the village, or drastically change lives. By choosing the latter, I decided to start to leave the hotel and find yourself some more lowly and less expensive housing. "
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23. The "process", Kafka
"He was always inclined to treat everything very easy, admitted that the situation is bad only when really it became very ill, and was accustomed to do nothing in advance, even if the approaching threat".
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24. "Waffle Heart" Mary Parr
"Generally speaking, Lena green eyes and seven freckles on her nose. She is very thin. Grandfather says that she - a horse-girl, though in appearance more like a bicycle. And fight in the hands of Elena all lose, but it's just because of all of Zhuhai, she says.
I myself, in my opinion, look like everyone else, I have blond hair and a dimple in his cheek. Unusual in me only a name, but this is not visible from the outside. Mom and Dad called me Theobald Rodrik. And immediately regretted it. It is not good to give a little baby is a big name. But it was too late: what's done is done. So I have lived Theobald Rodrik Danielsenom Uttergordom nine years. And it's a lot. This is my whole life. "
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25. "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," Stephen Chbosky
"I do not know how to spread rumors and why they are so often confirmed by the school. It seems that it was in the dining room. I do not remember exactly. Dave looked through his ridiculous ochochkah yes and says: "Michael killed himself. His mother played bridge one of the neighbors, and they heard a shot. "
What happened to me then, I do not remember, but my older brother rushed to the principal's office and says, "Do not limp." And then he puts his arm around my shoulders and says, "Get a grip, while the father did not come home."
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