Well I have heard a million times, "Emerson is a great writer." I have always taken for granted that he was, but now I know why. This book is a collection of 15 essays he wrote. I think the first one, Nature, is the best known. Reading Emerson is better than reading a book of facts, it is a book of ideas. Raw ideas for you to agree, disagree, think about or disregard. No matter which you choose, you will end up thinking alot, which is a good thing ?
There are many lines that just had me thinking for the rest of the day. A few of them are - "Miller owns this field, Lock that, and Manning the woodlands beyond. But none of them owns the landscape." "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." "Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws."
My favorite eassys were Nature, Self-Reliance and Circles.
I highly recommend the book and believe that anyone who reads it can only gain from it.
After reading a few notes about this book, all raving about how funny it is, I decided to read it.
The situation itself is quite interesting and could very well lead to funny situations, but the author missed them all.
A spaceship lands on earth in 1345. A few blue-skinned aliens are no match however, for a war-ready town of english knights. Under the guidance of their baron, Sir Roger, the knights use the spaceship to try to thwart any alien's dream of ever attacking earth. And thats about it.
When the knights first acquire the spaceship and wonder what to do with it, they mentioned attacking France with it and freeing the Holy Land. That would have been an interesting sub plot, but it was not followed up. Also, there was no comic element between the aliens and the knights as they learn each others language, which I thought would be fertile grounds for comedy.
Siddhartha is a young Indian boy who was born into the Brahmin caste of Indian society.
He is very intelligent and inquisitive. One day he realizes that people much older than him, who have been praying and meditating all their lives, have not gotten any closer to the "truth." So off he goes on his journey to try to discover the secret.
This book has more wisdom in the first 40 pages than in most books with 10 times that amount. I would love to tell you the whole story, but you will have to discover it for yourself.
Personally, I have asked a few people much older than myself what the secret of life is. None of them could tell me. I am sure everyone has sought an answer to this question and could relate to this story. So what are you waiting for, read it now.
