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Martin Amis — L'informazione | DeRank™: 0,00

Richard Tull and Gwyn Barry are friends. They are forty years old, were classmates at Oxford, and both became writers.
But Gwyn is a successful writer, while Richard is a failure.
Yet he had started off better than his friend; he had published a book that was well received by critics and was considered a promise.
Now he survives on reviews and is forced to endure increasingly monumental biographies of lesser poets.
Richard also feeds on hatred: he hates his friend, living in envy of his success.
He seeks not just revenge but wants to elevate revenge to a form of art, humiliating Gwyn on the same ground where he himself was humiliated. (cit. Einaudi) more
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"This love story began on the same clear day, with spring sunshine, when the rancher Jesuino Mendonça shot his legitimate wife Sinhzinha Guedes Mendonça dead..." (cit. Gabriella garofano e cannella) more
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Life and miracles of Teresa Batista sold at thirteen by her relatives to a vile rapist ogre, avenger of her tyrant, a prostitute able to become a virgin again with each new love, an unmatched sambista, an unyielding vanquisher of the black devil, an indomitable unionist of brothels, a generous catalyst of every uprising against earthly injustice; saint... (quoted from Einaudi) more
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Andre Agassi — Open La mia storia | DeRank™: 0,00

“Open is one of the most passionate books against sports ever written by an athlete. It is not just an athlete's memoir, but a truly profound coming-of-age story.”
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Seether | DeRank™: 0,00

Several cheerful songs, the only ones I can tolerate (with difficulty) in the post-grunge scene. more
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Jerry Harrison — Casual Gods | DeRank™: 0,00

Second solo album by the guitarist who first played with The Modern Lovers, then with the Talking Heads, and finally with The Heads. Here, JH sings and plays the keyboards as well; the third track "Man with a Gun" was featured in the dramatic film "Congiunzione di due lune" ("Two Moon Junction" from 1988, which marked the debut of then thirteen-year-old Milla Jovovich), and in instrumental version in Jonathan Demme's cult road movie "Something Wild" ("Qualcosa di travolgente" starring Melanie Griffith, Jeff Daniels & Ray Liotta). more
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Nerdy

Tymbro — Don't Panic, You Can Dream | DeRank™: 0,00

A hidden path toward the space more
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Il Tarantiniano

Ben Harper | DeRank™: 1,18

Pure and crystal clear. "Morning Yearning" gives me chills with every listen. more
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Roger Dean | DeRank™: 0,00

It comes from another planet, perhaps from another galaxy. more
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Vangelis | DeRank™: 0,00

I may be biased, but 110 e lode just for composing THE SOUNDTRACK... For everything else, I need to delve deeper. more
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Fiorella Mannoia | DeRank™: 0,00

Strictly prohibited for those suffering from depression to listen more
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After the interlude of Life Among The Ruins, Defeis focuses all his energy on a trilogy between man and divinity, considered by many to be the creative peak of the band. The first part of The Marriage impresses mainly with its compact sound, evident in I Will Come For You, Blood Of The Saints, The Last Supper, but also for the elegance and search for melodies in House Of Dust, Self Crucifixion, and Forever Will I Roam. A Pursino more inspired than ever, and Defeis reaches with his voice emotional and vocal peaks that few will be able to match in the genre. more
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Renato Zero | DeRank™: 0,00

More of a character than a singer, I don't know much about him; what little I do know I don't dislike, but it doesn't seem like a masterpiece either....3.. more
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Jeff Buckley | DeRank™: -3,54

If Grace is a great album, I work on Wall Street… Overrated, a somewhat mysterious premature death, a melancholic singer, a bit emo, American, now turned into a legend, I really don’t understand the reason (or maybe I understand it perfectly…). Well, that’s too easy. more
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"Wanting as little as possible and knowing as much as possible has been the principle that has guided my life."
Arthur Schopenhauer more
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"Zen has no doors.
The words of Buddha are meant to enlighten others.
Therefore, Zen must be without doors."
Thus wrote Mumon (1183-1260) introducing a collection of koans dedicated to a group of monks who were his students.
(cit. Adelphi) more
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The reader will find a selection from "The Collection of Stones and Sand" by Muju, a Japanese master of the thirteenth century, and other classic Zen texts, up to the end of the nineteenth century.
“Zen is not a sect but an experience.”
From this experience, which centers around the notion of satori, "enlightenment," an immense literature has emerged, with numerous branches, starting from the sixth century in China (under the name of Ch’an) and from the twelfth century to the present day in Japan (under the name of Zen). - quote from Adelphi - more
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Marpa the Translator (1012-1096), known in the West primarily as the irritable and discontented master who subjected his favorite disciple Milarepa to unheard-of labors before granting him any teachings, was among those who contributed the most to transplanting Indian Buddhism in Tibet.
Three times he left Tibet to undertake perilous journeys through Nepal and India in search of manuscripts and masters who could clarify the obscure doctrines of the Tantras.
Among the many extraordinary encounters, the one with Naropa was decisive; after instructing him and testing him with enigmatic messages, disconcerting visions, and wondrous apparitions, he designated him as his spiritual successor. (cit. Adelphi) more
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In Nigeria, in the early 1950s, the young Amos Tutuola sent his first manuscript to an address he had found in an advertisement that appeared in a local newspaper.
Through a further turn of fate, the manuscript arrived at the publisher Faber and Faber: in this unlikely manner, the immortal spirit of the fable began to speak once more.
Dylan Thomas immediately recognized that tone, that wonder – and greeted Tutuola's first book with an enthusiastic review in the "Observer." (quote from Adelphi) more
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- Milarepa was a magician, poet, and hermit. He became one so completely that Tibetans struggle not to separate these three characters, and depending on their perspective as magicians, laypeople, or religious figures, Milarepa is their greatest magician, poet, or saint. (Jaques Bacot)
- One of those precious texts upon which, with each new reading, one measures what has been understood in the meantime. (René Daumal)
- The Life of Milarepa is a biography - the oldest one that has been handed down - by UgTsang smyon He-ru-ka about the Buddhist monk, mystic, and yogi master Milarepa. more
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