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#47 Symposium by Muriel Spark comes together in bits and pieces like an Altman movie
#48 The Finishing School by Muriel Spark in which green turns to gay
#49 The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson very good but not as great as The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
#50 War in Heaven ... Symposium by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett
A group of men gathered together for a feast and started a discourse on the nature of Love. Everybody presented their own notion of love one after another. The dialogues were half playful and half serious, but always entertaining and fascinating. ... Symposium by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett
A group of men gathered together for a feast and started a discourse on the nature of Love. Everybody presented their own notion of love one after another. The dialogues were half playful and half serious, but always entertaining and fascinating. ... ... scanned my closest shelves and saw a few examples of this: Camus' The Stranger, Ahdaf Soueif's The Map of Love, Plato's Symposium and Herculine Barbin: Being the Memoirs of a Nineteenth Century French Hermaphrodite. I hate wasting space on multiple copies, but I feel like it would take ... ... Barrett's book on existentialism, but that's just because it was one of the books chosen this year (the other was Plato's Symposium). The moderator for our group described existentialism as a philosophy that has gone out of favor. Finally finished Plato's Symposium today. I started it in September, but only read a couple of pages day. My version was translated by Robin Waterfield, and and I love how he makes the sarcasm of Socrates's eulogy on love come through. Excellent book! I give it 4 stars. I just bought a bunch of new books today, and I'm still not done reading Crazy '08 by Cait Murphy, The Symposium by Plato (can't think why it's taking me so long to finish such a short book), and The Mists of Avalon. I did finish King's Gambit by John Maddox Roberts, and bought the next ... ... in this context.
6. Hello Phaedra,
An admirable name and one of my favorite dialogues of Plato. The other is The Symposium.
I highly recommend the 1952 UK film version of The Importance Of Being Earnest directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Michael Redgrave as Jack.
P.S. ... ... by Georgette Heyer so far this week. I just started The King's Gambit by John Maddox Roberts, and am still working on The Symposium by Plato, The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Crazy '08 by Cait Murphy. ... was an editor of several publications. It shows in her writing, because it is so spare, but lethal. The last one I read, Symposium, was very much in that mode, and again, I really enjoyed the twists and the tale. I've been reading her work wildly out of order because of book availablity, but ... ... Right now I'm only able to devote a little time to it, since I'm also reading The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde and The Symposium by Plato for other reading groups, and I need to finish both by Wednesday! ... Right now I'm only able to devote a little time to it, since I'm also reading The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde and The Symposium by Plato for other reading groups, and I need to finish by Wednesday! Reading your post re. symposium reminded me to give Muriel Spark another try.
Like others, I'm going to try to obtain a copy of Short History of Tractors This one sounds great!
If I keep reading your posts and adding your books to my pile, I'll be like Stasia and have a continent tbr.
... ... to follow-up with this one. It's just as good the second time.
For a philosophy class I'm taking, I'm reading Plato's Symposium. The translation I have by Robin Waterfield is great.
Finally, I'm re-reading The Mists of Avalon for another LibraryThing book group. I first read it ... 39. Symposium by Muriel Spark
Well, that was odd. I picked up Muriel Spark by accident, meaning to pick up Margery Sharp (whose name had gone right out of my head so I got what I thought was the right author). I didn't like any of the characters in the book (I don't think we were ... Plato's Symposium
The Brothers Karamazov ... ouds
10. Plato, Apology, Crito and Phaedo
11. Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
12. Thucydides, Peloponnesian War
13. Plato, Symposium
14. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics and Politics
15. Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
16. Aristotle, Physics and Metaphysics
17. Euripides, Hippolyt ... I finished The Symposium and The Pillars of the Earth. The former caused me to think a lot and the latter was okay, but hard to put down. Go figure. Now I'll start on The Echo Maker, at my husband's suggestion. ... with the Death Penalty by Scott Turow. It seems silly not to finish it. I also plan to start (and hopefully finish) The Symposium by Plato. > RcCarol: I'm a big fan of the Symposium. I'm curious to know which take on love is your favorite. ... the job title. :-)
With regard to Plato's "romances" (I think he'd have rejected that term), I recommend reading the Symposium. The relationship with Dion (whatever it may have been) is relevant here in that it interfered with the effort to "convert" Dionysius II, and in that it is rather ... just finished rereading Symposium by muriel spark in London, and don't know where i'm going next. ... I'm interested in the classical thinkers like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle... digging through the Republic and Symposium, Politics and Rhetoric and Poetics.
This would easily lead into more current Western thinkers like Locke, Hume, Nietzsche, Kant...How about Hegel, Freud ... The MARC records under "Book information" for Plato's Symposium are all bold for no apparent reason starting with the record from "Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (GBV", field 900 $d. ...
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Symposium, by Plato
Symposium, by Nikos Kazantzakis
Symposium, by Muriel Spark
Tale of the Shining Princess, by Sally Fisher
Tale of the Shining Prince ... ...
A bit busy at the minute, but a couple of hasty thoughts on Plato. Personally, I`m not keen on either The Republic or The Symposium. I live in hope that I will grow to appreciate them more, but at present, The Republic to me is a blueprint for an ideal society (stating the obvious I know) - ...
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