Discount 50% The Great Gatsby Books

In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.

It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.


 

The Island of Lote Book Discount 20%

The Adventures of a Young Girl on the Middle of Nowhere

The Island of Lote is the latest work of a young writer. She is Emily Kinney who has worked hard with his books. This time, she tells the adventures of a teenage girl who had a problem. Nobody could understand hem, including the parent. How well, this is a theme that is always interesting to be reading for adolescents. In addition, parents should also read a similar theme to get an idea about the world of teenagers. 

In one occasion, this girl had to go to Australia. However, a plane crash has led to surprising adventures. So, this girl stranded on an island. Most people would probably consider this as an ordinary story about an island adventure in the middle of nowhere. But this is an interesting story when you can read from the perspective of a 14 year old girl.

Well, this girl met a boy who saved her life. However, she was not aware that she was heading for something that is not understood, which marriage is. So, this girl must marry the boy. Although the boy loves her, she did not want to be stuck forever in that island. In fact, this girl felt that she had been deceived. So, that is the next challenges to be faced by the young girl. 

50% Discount-Inferno Book(Dan Brown's return to form!)

Dan Brown is what he is. He's no Shakespeare and doesn't pretend to be. He's an entertainer, a storyteller and a brilliant researcher. He writes for the mainstream, not literary snobs, and the mass public crave great stories more than anything else. For that reason I have always enjoyed Dan Brown's books. He's far from my favorite author, but I've never understood all the hate for the guy who has written the single biggest selling novel ever. Credit where credit is due people...

In saying all that, I had almost given up on him after reading the third novel in the Robert Langdon series, The Lost Symbol. That novel was a two or three star book at best and lacked the high tension of the first two stories in the series. It seemed like a very tired franchise at that point.

Inferno, book 4 in the Robert Langdon series, is a definite return to form for this author and completely rejuvenates the whole series. The conspiracy theories in this publication are not quite as explosive as the first two books, but still very thought provoking none the less.

Inferno is a dynamic mesh of medieval literature, historical intrigue, ancient symbols, secret societies and hidden codes. It's mostly set in Florence, which is the city where Italian poet Dante Alighieri was born. It's a much darker storyline than any of Brown's previous books.

Robert Langdon's sidekick this time is a feisty blonde female doctor who is way smarter than him. A sinister clandestine organization wants them both dead so that the couple cannot discover the clues within ancient artifacts and paintings inspired by or related to Dante's Inferno.

The story makes you realize Dante helped shape our modern (Christian) view of Hell. There is also a little bit of sci-fi and futurism in this book with the secret New World Order-type organization and the plot's antagonist who is a bioterrorist...That all adds up to a level of excitement worthy of a great blockbuster.

After reading the book it makes me now want to research Dante Alighieri and re-read his classic poem The Divine Comedy...just as The Da Vinci Code made me want to research Leonardo Da Vinci more and study the Last Supper.

In summary, Inferno is probably not quite as good as Angels and Demons or The Da Vinci Code, but certainly a lot better than Dan Brown's previous book The Lost Symbol.

And looking forward to Dan Brown's next book which will hopefully be part 5 in the Robert Langdon series!