![]() ![]() The story of Odysseus is full of twists and turns. Now, equipped with naught but his cunning, Odysseus would once more rise to the occasion. These circumstances became yet another trial the hero had to overcome. In his time away during the war, over a hundred youths began lusting after Odysseus’ wife, his lands and title, and plotting to kill his beloved son. And his home, the longing of which had propelled him forward thus far, had become a different type of battlefield. In the end, only Odysseus – one out of 600 comrades – returned home. The passage was not easy, being fraught with monstrosities and gods riled by the war’s aftermath. ![]() In the beginning, Odysseus and his men left the shores of Troy with 12 ships. However, his homeland – a humble island on the Ionian Sea – would evade him for another decade. He miraculously survived the 10-year Trojan War and was the last of the veterans to return. A Greek war hero, father, and king: Odysseus was all of this and then some. ![]()
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Quick Synopsis: Two nations at war, with very different beliefs and values (gods vs blood magic). ![]() I find myself pondering it with more interest after having finished it than I held the entire duration of time I spent reading it, mostly because I still can’t quite pinpoint why it didn’t work for me. Some of us just hide it better than others. ![]() ![]() ![]() According to a British encyclopedia of literature, James Hilton's greatness lies in his literary creation of Shangri-La, while the biggest contribution of the novel is the introduction of a new English word, Shangri-La, meaning utopia on earth. Shangri-La, or Shambhala in Tibetan, means the sun and the moon in one's heart. The film's theme song The Beautiful Shangri-La spread across the world. In 1934, Hollywood invested US$2.5 million to make the novel into a film. Later, he won the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature. In 1933, James Hilton published his captivating novel Lost Horizon, which ranked first among the best sellers of the year. ![]() Shangri-La: The Sun and the Moon in One's Heart ![]() ![]() ![]() Spanning politics, urban planning, war, personal finance, economic systems, and medicine in an interdisciplinary and erudite style, Antifragile is a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world. What is crucial is that the antifragile loves errors, as it incurs small harm and large benefits from them. ![]() The resilient resists shocks and stays the same the antifragile gets better and better. What Taleb has identified and calls “antifragile” is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, many things in life benefit from disorder, volatility, and turmoil. richly crammed with insights, stories, fine phrases and intriguing asides.” -The Wall Street Journal All four volumes- Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and the expanded edition of The Bed of Procrustes, updated with more than 50 percent new material-are now together in one boxed set. ![]() Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series is an investigation of luck, uncertainty, probability, opacity, human error, risk, disorder, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand, in nonoverlapping and standalone books. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is selectively “historicist,” when the ideological cause moves him, as it does frequently in his penetrating analysis of The Merchant of Venice, where he declares, “Shylock is the first of Shakespeare’s internalized hero-villains” (11). Of course, Bloom does the same thing on occasion. ![]() In so doing, they rob the Bard of his “universal” appeal and “human” content. In the introductory chapter of his best-selling book, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, Harold Bloom decries the hijacking of “universal” Shakespeare by “French” theorists-presumably New Historicists, feminists, and cultural materialists-who “begin with a political stance,” go on to “locate some marginal bit of English Renaissance social history” to prop up their theory, and then read the ideology back into the play (Bloom 1998, 9). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Through an enchanting-and often amusing-story about two struggling strangers who meet an eccentric tycoon who becomes their secret mentor, The 5am Club will walk you through: Now, in this life-changing book, handcrafted by the author over a rigorous four-year period, you will discover the early-rising habit that has helped so many accomplish epic results while upgrading their happiness, helpfulness and feelings of aliveness. ![]() Legendary leadership and elite performance expert Robin Sharma introduced The 5am Club concept over twenty years ago, based on a revolutionary morning routine that has helped his clients maximize their productivity, activate their best health and bulletproof their serenity in this age of overwhelming complexity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This companion to the New York Times bestselling book The Wes Anderson Collection takes readers behind the scenes of the Oscar®-winning film The Grand Budapest Hotel with a series of interviews between writer/director Wes Anderson and movie/television critic Matt Zoller Seitz. The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel ![]() ![]() Sometimes it's hard to know whether to take him seriously. ![]() ![]() He says he prefers the term "caste system" to "class system" when describing America, conveying as it does a more rigid and inescapable distinction, and that he uses "class" only out of respect for conventional usage. He believes America has one of the most hypertrophied class systems in the world, that its formal equality has left a niche that an informal class system expanded to fill - and expanded, and expanded, until it surpassed the more-legible systems of Europe and became its own sort of homegrown monstrosity. Sure, there may be vast wealth inequality, but at least there's no nobility beggars and billionaires are the same type of citizen. When he tells people he's writing a book on class in America, "it is as if I had said I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals." America likes to think of itself as a classless society. ![]() He recognizes this might not be the most popular topic. (well, wanted, past tense, it's a 1983 book, we'll come back to that later) Summary and commentary on Paul Fussell's "Class: A Guide Through The American Status System" ![]() ![]() Leake posts some of his work on his YouTube channel dubbed Brandon Leake – CTM. It gave a unique insight into his family’s role in shaping the person he is. The special contained eight spoken word poems written and performed by Brandon. In March 2022, he released a poetry book titled Unraveling: Poems, and three months later, his spoken word special, Brandon Leake: A Family Affair, aired on The CW. Shortly after his win, Brandon collaborated with Team Harmony Foundation to produce the online series, Hate: What Are You Going To Do? “We here are raising our voices to stand up against all forms of hate, but most importantly, to show the world exactly what love can look like,” Leake said.Īs the world gradually reopened, Leake resumed performing poetry. Leake also secured a representation deal with the United Talent Agency. ![]() ![]() The coronavirus pandemic delayed his Vegas tour until late 2021. Brandon Leake’s AGT win earned him $1 million, a new car, and an opportunity to perform in Luxor Las Vegas. ![]() |