Showing posts with label Non-Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Non-Fiction. Show all posts

Monday, March 29, 2010

The witches


This story tells us that real witches looks same as ordinary women but they wear masks,gloves and wigs,and they will have witches' meeting after a period of time,the content is all about turning children into mice,and during the meeting,all the witches will take off their masks,gloves and wigs.Witches have sensitive smelling,they can smell children from a long distance away but kids who doesn't often take a shower,witches cannot smell you that easily,so if I am a kid in England I will never take a shower otherwise the witches will smell me and turn me into a mouse.

"Down vith the children!Do them in!"
"Boil their bones and fry their skin!"
"Bish them, sqvish them, bash them, mash them!"
"Brrreak them, shake them, slash them, smash them!"
This is a terrible chant of the witches.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

The South Pole by Roald Amudsen

Roald Amudsen wrote this book, Robert Falcon Scott's his rival. However Scott died so Captain Amudsen lived so he wrote about the trip.

Robert Falcon Scott is a young man who's been in the navy all his life and passed out of Britannia as a midshipman, seventh overall in a class of 26, he knew he has to prove to everyone that he can do more by himself. Therefore, he took on the Discovery Expedition to South Pole, well no one knows it was to the South Pole, they only knew that its an expedition for discoveries. The ship they sailed on was named Discovery.

The book is really interesting as it talks about one person froma third party's point of view and you can see how the author goes "They see a huge ice shelf that's called Ross Ice Shelf but at that time, there wasn't a name for it so it was known to everyone as "The Barrier". A barrier that stops people from going to the South pole." The author tells you about what happened then, and how it could have been improved etc.

For all those travel-lovers out there, this is a "you-have-to-read-this-book-because-you'll-love-it" book! I personally don't like to read much, but this book did get me reading on and on, non stop. If you love to read non-fiction books, this is a great book too. It talks quite alot about the past because, well, Scott's from the past of course.

I hope whoever that reads it will enjoy as much I did. :)

Journey to the Alcarria by Camilo Jose Cela

Its very common to hear that travel diaries all have boring features: endless descriptions, no dialogues and actionless! But the people saying that have probably never read this book by Camilo Jose Cela called "Journey to the Alcarria. The book is simply written, a bit more than 100 pages long and starts directly to the point by the begining.
The book is non fiction, about a traveler called Camilo Jose Cela, who anticipates a solo trip by foot to the center of Spain. The book is the story of his trip; the people he encountered, the landscapes he saw and what he thought. The author doesn't use any but an interesting type of writing which doesn't use too much descriptions but which offers efficient imagery by describing only the important parts
The purpose is mostly to tell you about adventurers who travel solo in dangerous places. I recommend this book to any fans of Spain and the country side.

Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure

One of the most interesting things I found about the book was the title, Hemingway Adventure. How did Palin come up with such title you ask? He started reading Ernest Hemingway's journalism, short stories, biographies and memoirs, including less fashionable novels for his research. Once he started to get to know Hemingway more, he was attracted to the same thing he was thirty-five years before - the unforced, unsesational, uncomplicated and magical ability to bring the world to life when he heard of Ernest Hemingway when he was a teenager.
Hemingway Adventure sets out to explore the amazing and rich territory of Hemingway's life. By his inspiration, Palin experiences Hemingway's adventure by either bull-running in Pamplona, fishing for marlin in the Gulf Stream or drinking daiquiris in Havana or even been attacked by cheetahs in Africa "The cheetah bares his teeth and backs up. My hand wobbles. I breathe deeply and keep it moving. It's almost there, hovering above the big, sad, yellow eyes, when the cheetah delivers a sharp and wholly unexpected right hook to my leg". I like it how he added suspension which shows the contrasts between the the big, sad, yellows eyes and when the cheetah attacks him.
Palin's writing is like no other; he allows his audience to portray what he wants as if a picture were to be painted. Humor is what makes his work so entertaining, along with his keen insights on life.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes humor or been taken on a short journey along with Michael Palin.

Monday, February 22, 2010

Demon haunted world - Ryan Weinstein



Before you start to peer down the twisted labaryth that is "The demon haunted world" I must remind you to bring your ball of string because you will soon find you need it dearly.
This book is the perfect book for those who are interusted in TOK. You will also find this book perfect if you are a terrible sceptic that only wants to go deeper into strange ideas. As is all physics books, especialy those that are leaning more towards quantom mechanics rather than physics, you must allow yourself to realize that this book will make you a much worse person before there is any hope of becoming a better one. When you read this book, if you are able to grasp the strange truths, you also need to know that in no way should any of this ever be used in an argument. Reading this books like this is the closest you can go to reading a book on dark magic. Also if you want to take a bit of advice from me, mentioning this in an argument with a highly religious person will get you thrown out of whichever dwelling you happen to be in.
This book is ludicrous, strange, and blasphemy in most churches. It is also true.


If you don't mind a used torn up one with the latin phrase, "God have mercy on my soul" written over and over again in blood on the last 2 pages.
You can get one here


-Deus kave Misericordia an Meus Animus!

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Who Moved My Cheese?

Change. It happens to every one. Spencer Johnson presents his thoughts as a fable about dealing with change in business and personal life.

The story revolves around four imaginary characters; two mice, "Sniff" and "Scurry" and two "littlepeople", "Hem" and "Haw". They are used to represent the simple and the complex parts of our lives. They live in a maze where they spend their time looking for, running around and eating cheese. In this case, cheese represents our goal or what we want in life.

Each day, they would race around the maze racing and searching for their favorite cheese. They would find their own cheese at the end of one of the corridors in Cheese Station C until finally, they started to establish their own routines.

What do you want when your world is changing?