Read MeMe!

[binidj]

Hurrah to jfs for an elegant solution to the Big Read Meme nonsense:

"Pick one book from that list, and argue for or against it. Why should everyone you know read it, or why should all extant copies of it be pulped?

That's likely to be a lot more interesting than bolding, italicising and underlining 100 lines of text, neh?"

My choice is The Little Prince by Antoine de St Exupery. I believe that everyone should read this book because it is the most profound treatise on love and loss that I have ever read. It's a book ostensibly written for children and is very very short ... no more than a couple of hours reading. Surely you can spare a couple of hours to find out if you agree with my assertion that it is one of the finest books ever written?

Perhaps the best recommendation comes from the book itself:

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

Comments

[dreamfire.livejournal.com]

my favourite of all books too - and what I can never get my head round since he wrote it in both French and English - is why it isn't a children's classic in the UK - I didn't discover it til in early 20's in France.

"to be tamed means risking tears"