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Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. I picked up a copy of this book from a small, quaint bookshop, packed with a real classics section (finally!). You don’t get many of them in this country. The previous owner seems to be a literature student as the pages are littered with thoughts, notes, and comments. I tried not to read them first so as not to influence my reading. That aside, it’s a strange play. I remember watching it in South Africa at the Civic Theatre on a school trip. Reading it now… I still don’t get it. :) It’s one of those books where you never really ‘finish’ it; it’s rather the book that you keep on coming back to until your understanding becomes clearer and clearer.

I spent some time on the Internet, researching Beckett and understanding the context to his writing. I’m looking for critical and textual commentaries on the text, so please drop a comment with a link if you know of any. Also, as an intellectual and artistic pursuit, I’ll be working on the text as if I would be directing it, to help me understand more the play .

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The Republic by Plato. I started reading this back in 2007 and it’s taken me until now to get to 200 or so pages. For a while, I plain struggled with the language and density of thought. Then, I put it down for a very long time, diving headlong instead in classic fiction. What encouraged me to get back into it was my father’s Folio Society copy of the book. As I’ve learnt, a good preface really explains the context and sets a tone for the book involved. So, with that preface in mind, I went back to reading it, even if it was small morsels every now and then. I’ve hit a stride now with the book. Bertrand Russel said that Western philosophy is nothing more than a footnote on The Republic. I think I agree; you can see the original ideas behind much of our current political and social philosophies.

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. I was recommended this by my sister. It’s a thought-provoking and engaging book. I’m reading it, with this blog, Carter’s, Enflesh Films, Efmevi, and any other project I’m involved in, in mind. It explains how trends are started, how they gain movement, and they reach that point where their popularity or acceptance becomes ubiquitous. Gladwell brings in examples from sociology, fashion, technology, products; his gentle explanation of the thinking and theory behind it all encourages you to delve further and do more reading. Which I’ll do, methinks. :)

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Essay: Chop and Crop by David Hume Kennerly