Posts Tagged ‘Lemony Snicket’

Clatita care nu se oprea din urlat

Marti, Ianuarie 12th, 2010

Nume: The Latke Who Couldn’t StopLatke Screaming

Autor: Lemony Snicket

Limba: Engleza

Editura: McSweeney’s Books

Gen: Poveste de Craciun/umor

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“Latke-le sunt clatite de cartofi servite de Hanukah. Lemony Snicket e un presupus autor pentru copii. Pentru prima data in istoria literaturii, cele doua elemente sunt combinate intr-o singura carte. Oamenii care sunt interesati de unul de aceste lucruri sau chiar de amandoua vor gasi cartea asta atat de placuta incat se vor simti de parca Hanukah se sarbatoreste pe durata a cativa ani, nu doar a 8 zile.”

Azi am primit coletul de la Okian (librarie care aduce carti din afara) si in el am dat de The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming, o carte care m-a facut sa trag aer in piept si sa ma gandesc “Pe asta am dat 40+ RON?”. Am intors-o de pe o parte pe alta, am rasfoit-o, am mai intors-o o data, am admirat-o de la distanta, si tot n-am inteles de ce am dat mai mult de 40 de RON pe o carte cu nici 3 pagini scrise complet, 4-5 ilustratii, 2 coperte dragute… totul adunat in 41 de pagini rarisime. Motivul pentru care am dat banii astia a fost unul simplu: sunt obsedata de autor, de Lemony Snicket/Daniel Handler, si vreau sa-mi cumpar tot ce a scris vreodata.

In pauza de tigara am decis s-o citesc si mi-a luat fix jumatate de Marlboro Rosu Lung, adica clatke345_largeirca 3-4 minute de lectura. Dupa cele 4 minute aveam un zambet intins pe toata fata si am decis ca sunt cei mai bine cheltuiti 40 de RON din muuuult timp. Nici daca era o colectie de bancuri nu m-ar fi amuzat mai mult, asa ca iti recomand si tie Povestea Clatitei Care Nu Se Oprea Din Urlat, in care vei citi bineinteles despre o clatita care urla si care se intalneste de Hanukah cu un candy cane si un pin. Clatita va invata multe lucruri despre Hanukah si Craciun, la fel ca si copilul care citeste despre aventurile ei.

Poti comanda cartea de pe Amazon.co.uk sau de pe Okian.ro, va fi livrata in maxim 3 saptamani si costa cca 35-40 RON.

Nu incurajati cersetorii zgomotosi

Joi, Noiembrie 19th, 2009

“There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.”

Lemony Snicket

28Daca am vorbi de acordeon, as fi complet de acord. Nu e nimic mai ingrozitor decat un acordeon in tramvai, la 10-11 dimineata, cand ai ochii umflati de somn si incerci sa citesti un capitol incredibil de abramburit.

Entertainment?

Joi, Noiembrie 19th, 2009

illus-185“Entertaining a notion, like entertaining a baby cousin or entertaining a pack of hyenas, is a dangerous thing to refuse to do. If you refuse to entertain a baby cousin, the baby cousin may get bored and entertain itself by wandering off and falling down a well. If you refuse to entertain a pack of hyenas, they may become restless and entertain themselves by devouring you. But if you refuse to entertain a notion – which is just a fancy way of saying that you refuse to think about a certain idea – you have to be much braver than someone who is merely facing some blood-thirsty animals, or some parents who are upset to find their little darling at the bottom of a well, because nobody knows what an idea will do when it goes off to entertain itself.”

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Drumul mai putin batut

Duminica, Noiembrie 15th, 2009

un drum mai putin batut

“A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called “The Road Less Traveled”, describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn’t hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is dead.”

Lemony Snicket

Despre scris si carti, Lemony Snicket style

Joi, Noiembrie 12th, 2009

the bookseller“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”

“Well-read people are less likely to be criminals.”

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It’s one of the reasons for their wickedness.”

“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”

“A good library will never be too neat or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”

“No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don’t read is often as important as what you do read.”