Blog About Books

If you try to remember when the last time you read the book you probably still remember the smell of the fresh pages and cover. Unfortunately, in nowadays people are using more electronic books and only our parents and grandparents are enjoying the originality and freshness of books. Despite the fact that electronic devises that read electronic books are more comfortable and ecological pure they are still missing the smell of pages that is so important when you open a new book. Therefore, one western company has decided to purchase a new spray called “Smell of the book”. You just have to spray a little bit that aerosol on your electronic device and enjoy. The only thing that is missing is an audio file to that sprinkle that would make a sound like you turning your next page. But thinking radically, it is easier to by a real book.

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Not so long ago there appeared a book which tells us about the death of legendary American guitarist Jimi Hendrix. It is the book by James Wright who was in due time concert assistant of Jimi Hendrix. James asserts that Hendrix died not as a result of accident, and was killed by his own manager. According to James Wright, in 1971 Michael Jeffrey admitted to him being drunk that it was he who stuffed Hendrix with somnolent tablets then poured into his throat some bottles of red wine. The fear to lose control ove the musician made him commit the crime: he suspected that Hendrix planned to employ a new manager. As a result Jeffrey decided that the guitarist would be more useful for him if he is dead than alive, and committed the murder to receive under the insurance for his death two million dollars, writes in the book Wright. In 1973 Jeffrey died in an air crash. 27-year-old Jimi Hendrix was found dead in the Hotel “Samarkand” in the west of London on September, 18th, 1970. Physicians ascertained that the musician had been poisoned by barbiturates then had choked in own emetic weights. So hasten in bookshops, the book will tell us a lot of interesting not only about death of the legend, but also about his personal and public life.

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Having lost in the election Sarah Palin decided to conquer America in another way. To tell the truth there is too much of her as Paris Hilton. The governor of Alaska Sarah Palin has signed a contract on the book edition, writes The New York Times. The book of Sarah Palin who in 2008 was the candidate for vice-presidents from Republican Party, will be let out by publishing house HarperCollins the next spring. Sarah Palin intends to tell in the book “her history and the history of Alaska. There has been so much written about me in the central mass-media and in the anonymous world of a blog sphere that the book edition becomes for me fine fresh possibility to tell the story independently, - declared Sarah Palin in Associated Press interview. - many people were interested in this history, and it will be presented in the pure, not deformed kind “. In November, right after John McCain and Sarah Palin lost on elections to democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden; the possible fee for the book of the governor from Alaska was estimated in seven millions dollars. Palin doesn’t inform on the sum paid by the publishing house HarperCollins belonging to media magnate Rupert Murdoch. News about the forthcoming edition of the book served as the next stimulus for assumptions of participation of the governor of Alaska in presidential election of 2012. I wonder what she will write in the book. For sure she will write about hunting animals for the sake of their skin, after all on Alaska there are no shops with products and precisely there are no warm clothes from synthetics.

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In the USA there has been found a book with the first recipe of drink Dr Pepper. The drink recipe was written in 1885 by druggist Dr. Charles Alderton. It was he who invented one of the most popular drinks in the USA. The recipe was found by a young American Bill Waters, he asserts that he bought the ancient book for 200 dollars. For today an examination has been held which confirmed that the book really belonged to Texas drugstore where the well-known Dr. Pepper worked. Besides there are stains on the book and already many consider that these are stains from the first portions of the drink. Bill Waters wants to put the book up for auction. An approximate price is 50-75 thousand dollars. But representatives of the company refuse to recognize this recipe as the original. The thing is that the recipe of Dr. Pepper is kept in secret. In the world only three persons know the recipe, and they are employees of the company Dr Pepper Snapple Group. To tell the truth, all these secrets with drinks have bothered me what special does it contain? Certainly I love Dr. Pepper very much but I have the right to know what this drink consists from. It seems to me for this reason now representatives of the company declare that the recipe is not the real. I am confident that at auction they will anonymously redeem this book. And then they will burn it for us not to learn what it consists of.

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Lafayette Ron Hubbard a science-fiction writer, during his lifetime was the founder of a new religion, Scientology.
Scientology is the most controversial religion in the world. Scientology has many followers throughout the world. But the most violent opponents of Scientology, ironically it may seem, are former followers of Scientology. The point of view that Scientology is actually only on a commercial basis has spread in the society. The fact that to become a member of the movement one must pay, may confuse any person. In general, the essence of Scientology is as follows: million years ago, there were different races of aliens throughout the universe. But then there came an evil lord who enslaved the leaders of these races. The malefactor has brought all the captives to the Earth and using different devices hypnotized them for sorrow and torment. These souls left the aliens and moved to prehistoric men. And now there are parts of these alien souls in all of us, these souls are responsible for all our sufferings. Here is the religion. And for all this nonsense you are to pay a lot of money! All this information is divided into phases of training. Every following sweetheart stage costs money. During the training you also will be given a good brainwash, so that in a blink of an eye youll give all your money without noticing it. What can we say about the writer Ron Hubbard, who is he - a great falsifier, or he really the Messiah? I believe that Scientology is a complete nonsense. And if in the street you are offered to get Free Street Test on the E-Metr then run away from them. Remember - There’s no such thing as a free lunch. The most famous follower of Scientology is Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise is the most important person in Scientology. And they say that he is not the biological father of daughter Suri. And that Suri is the daughter of the Scientology founder - Lafayette Ron Hubbard. But as Hubbard died in 1986 the conception of Suri was carried out by means of artificial fertilization with the use of genetic material from Ron Hubbard.

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John Casson, an independent researcher of creativity of William Shakespeare has made recently a loud statement that he has found out 6 early works of William Shakespeare. John is convinced the great playwright to have let out the first works under a pseudonym “Phaeton”. And John is assured that he has actually found out Shakespeare’s 6 early works. These are the works – “The Phaeton sonnet”, “Mucedorus”, “Locrine” and “Arden of Faversham”. More details about this research you can learn from the book John Casson “Enter Pursued by a Bear”. But it seems to me that thus John Casson attracts the attention of the public the new book. I think that the book will not be interesting to the usual person. Most likely the book will interest other researchers of William Shakespeare’s life. The most known play by William Shakespeare is certainly “Romeo and Juliet”. This play has been many times screened and always was popular. Probably if experts recognize that the newly found out works really belong to the feather of great playwright William Shakespeare these works will be screened for the pleasure of spectators.

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Ivan Andreevich Krylov - one of the famous poets in the Russian literature wrote fables. He lived at the end of 18 centuries. This poet distinguished by writing fables in which it derided greed, rage, meanness and other evils. Usually he wrote fables about animals and insects, comparing their images to images of people. He wrote his works poetically. I’d like you appreciate one of his small works which I have translated into English.
«Swan, Pike and Crawfish»
When partners can’t agree
Their dealings come to naught
And trouble is their labor’s only fruit.
Once Crawfish, Swan and Pike
Set out to pull a loaded cart,
And all together settled in the traces;
They pulled with all their might, but still the cart refused to budge!
The load it seemed was not too much for them:
Yet Crawfish scrambled backwards,
Swan strained up skywards, Pike pulled toward the sea.
Who’s guilty here and who is right is
not for us to say - But anyway the cart’s still there today.
In this work the poet wished to show that if in a command everyone does as he wishes the command cannot achieve any result. Usually in books he used animals possessing the qualities that could also describe a person’s character. For example a cunny fox, the malicious wolf, a a strong and mighty lion and a scared sheep. There are a lot of animals, but all of them correspond to this or that type of human evil. The most interesting is that all this port wrote many years ago still happens in our life today. And no time will ever change the mankind. And the lie, meanness, envy, arrogance also will be peculiar to it. I have read many books by Krylov. Those who love poetry can find translated English fables by Krylov in Internet. I would advise to read the Wolf on a kennel, the Raven and the Fox, Sheep and Dogs and the Lion and the Mosquito.

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I have thought recently about which Russian writers are known abroad. Possibly I am mistaken but besides Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, to my mind, no any other Russian writer is known to foreign readers. I don’t argue, that Dostoevsky is a good writer. His Crime and Punishment is most popular. And it’s believed top of intelligence to read it in the original. Few people know abroad that there was not one writer who could write interesting novels and stories. for example let’s pay attention to another famous writer Nikolay Vasilievich Gogol. It is not by chance that I have decided to devote my article to this writer, as it is 200 years since his birthday this year. I’m not afraid to say that his stories often make me feel creepy. I will speak in brief about one of his stories the Overcoat. The main character Akakiy Akakievich, worked as a counselor, his job was not significant and he was poor. One day he had got a hole in his overcoat. He decided to patch it up but the tailor refused having suggested buying a new overcoat. Akakiy began saving money on everything. One day he got his salary and bought a new overcoat. he went to work in this new overcoat and everybody congratulated him on buying it. after work he went to the birthday party and when he returned home some people took away his overcoat with the words “This overcoat is mine!” Having decided to find his overcoat Akakiy went to high-posted official who could help him. But the later only shouted and sent him out. The main character went home and caught a cold on the way, at home he died. After his death on the place where his overcoat had been taken a spirit of a men began to appear. Somebody recognized Akakiy in the spirit. Once the official who could help Akakiy, but instead sent him out, was walking through this place. The spirit went for him with the words “This is your overcoat that I needed”. he took the overcoat and disappeared in the mist. after that the spirit stopped appearing. unfortunately I can’t retell you all the works of the great writes, but I think that people who are reading the article got interested. and those who like horror films will find much of interest in the works of Nikolay Vasilievich Gogol.

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In nowadays, the necessity in books is decreasing as the are many other sources of information like television, computers and etc. But let us compare books to movies. How do you think what is better? I think that both of them can be beneficial if only you threat them right.
If you read a novel or a story or whatever it is, you feel yourself like you see the happening by the character’s eyes. But watching movies will not make you feel that way. You see it like you are watching from the side. The experience of a hero and his feelings in some particular situations will not be familiar to you, if you are watching a movie.
From the other side, you can say why would I need to read the text without visual picture, sounds and real voices?
If you are feeling that way, you are wrong. When you read a book, your imagination starts to accept the information you read and a picture is forming by itself. As you interpret the event, your imagination is depend on it and you display it as you understand what you read. It is like when you are reading, your brain starts to produce the particular live event or a moment in reading. That is the most incredible thing about books.
But you can imagine what will happen if you read a book, for example “The Lord of The Rings” and then watch the same movie? The combination of books and films is even more productive and beneficial. The reality of movies and your imagination is comparing. That affects on your memory and you can compare for yourself which picture is better, the one that in the movie you watch or in the book of the same theme that you have recently read. And who knows, maybe your visualization will be much better that a movie and thus, you may want to make your own movie.
As we found out, watching movies is good, reading books is even better. But the combination of both of them is just wonderful.

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Have you ever been in a desperate need of a book, being it something to help you in your work or a text book for the university? Probably there was a time when you were just dying to read a new bestseller by your favourite writer. Indeed, it is nowadays not a big deal, since we have plenty of opportunities to purchase the book we need. One may visit a book store and enjoy some hours among the shelves filled with the masterpieces (and not only masterpieces) of the world literature. For those, who are too lazy to go out of the house, it is still possible to order books online from Amazon or any other provider of similar services. However, no matter how easy it is to buy a book today, it is impossible to kill the natural human desire to get something for free. For this purpose, many internet users share their books in electronic format. Well, such books possess all the best qualities of the book plus some specific advantages. On the one hand, you do not need to wait for the book to be delivered, because it just takes several minutes to download one. It does not require an effort and time to search for the book you need in the book stores. And of course one of the best qualities of the e-books is the fact that they are usually provided free of charge. Indeed, it is possible to start long debate about publishing companies losing revenues, about the authors, not getting their share. We may even start to refer to the fact that sharing e-book is not legal. Oh well, we do realise it, but we are just humans and we often cannot sacrifice our own benefit for the sake of being fair towards someone else.

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