Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
review
LusMat
Ubik | Philip K. Dick
post image
Pickpick

A plot that is near to mental madness. The struggle for life, the meaning of existence are the real themes of this book. The science-fiction genre is only the shortest long way for the transmission of this research of meaning. To read!

11 likes2 stack adds
review
LusMat
A Scanner Darkly | Philip K. Dick
Pickpick

I've loved this novel. It's weird, dark and very psicological. It's also a weight travel into the degradation of human because of drugs. There are lots of religious reference, most of them ravings, but the work is crossed by a deep, even if weak, vein of hope. The final dedication to his friend is touching.

MrBook Great review! 😊👍🏻 8y
LusMat Thank you @MrBook ! 8y
11 likes2 stack adds2 comments
review
LusMat
Pickpick

Another Dick's work, made famous by "Blade runner" movie. Very interesting and well written, but with an ending without "solution": no hero no teaching. A Dick's sign. To be read!

review
LusMat
Pickpick

To read! Love, sense of pain, courage and truth. A boy that become a man for relationship with friends, parents, teacher and love girl.

10 likes1 stack add
review
LusMat
I Am Legend | Richard Matheson
Pickpick

This book is simply amazing. I have read it during a single day and it seduces me. Loneliness, love, sense of life, the fear of the stranger. A book to read!!

13 likes1 stack add
review
LusMat
Watership Down | Richard Adams
Pickpick

An amazing book..it has various levels: from a child'story to a subtil research of how we search and find sense of life and of community. To read!

mahasoor thanks for reminding me about this book, I'll have to track it down and read this again. blew my mind, especially once i realized it started as a little kid's bedtime story 8y
LusMat So I'm more satisfied! This story had become like a bedtime story also for me..my father told it to me and my brother, @mahasoor ! 8y
MrBook Loved this book 😊. 8y
9 likes3 stack adds3 comments
review
LusMat
Pickpick

The first book of trilogy is simply amazing. A world new and strange, misterious events, interesting characters. The two other books are well-written like the first, but the story become more and more an allegory of a message (materialistic and atheist): the story lose its consistency. But: to read!

LusMat @ahenke if you like fantastic you've to read it! 8y
annahenke @LusMat I have read this - and I loved it! Spot on rec! 👍 I'm a sucker for all things Oxford. 😊 8y
LusMat Ahahahah! I had imagined your taste rightly, but too late, @ahenke !! 😊😊😊 8y
12 likes2 stack adds3 comments
review
LusMat
Pickpick

I've read only the novel "The wish house". A powerful dialogue about the sense of life and the value of pain. And also the danger of the will of master events and people.

review
LusMat
My Secret Book | Francesco Petrarca
Pickpick

The "Secretum" is a diary written like a dialogue between Francesco and Saint Augustine in front of the Truth. The object of dialogue? The incapability for Petrarca to take a decision about the "first Good" of his life. Plesaure, honour or the stability of the Soul when founded in God?

LusMat @MissKatie: to be read!! 8y
MissKatie Interesting! 8y
8 likes2 comments
review
LusMat
Pickpick

Very clear expecially on the idea of nature after the quantum theory.

6 likes2 stack adds
review
LusMat
Pickpick

Nice! A diary of a z-war paying attention on its birth, development and possible end. The struggle for surviving, strategies and tacticts. Read it!

5 likes1 stack add
review
LusMat
La divina commedia | Dante Alighieri
Pickpick

One of the highest work of humanity.

10 likes2 stack adds
review
LusMat
Pickpick

Sublime poetry: the love and the holy sonnets too. A rare example of formal perfection, the final result of an obsessive research on words. A deep and intense perception of love, life and religious search.

7 likes1 stack add
review
LusMat
Pickpick

An amazing story. The fight between two men that have opposite ideas, but a same love of Truth. Fight, love & friendship!

4 likes1 stack add
review
LusMat
Pickpick

An incredible book! Science-fiction, but the real theme is Good and evil and their fight.

5 likes2 stack adds
review
LusMat
Perelandra | C.S. Lewis
Pickpick

Wonderful book! A strange kind of science-fiction with large philosophical and theological elements for our thinking. You can't stop reading it after beginning!

6 likes2 stack adds