"Why should life be made endurable? I know that nothing consoles and nothing justifies except a story but that doesn't stop all stories from being lies."

Christie writes such beautiful books. with her the detective mystery is simply a tool to do what an author should truly do - explore humans in all their virtue and vices.

#christie #poirot #detective #mystery #thehollow

The first book I read from modern library's hundred best books.

#ThePostmanAlwaysRingsTwice #JamesCain #Classics #Literature

I make these simple quote edits of stuff I like as I read. hope you guys like it.

I read this book because my crush was reading it :P
And then I fell in love with the characters, the book, Clavell and Japan

#JamesClavell #Shogun #Japan

part of my plan to finish modern library's 100 best books (one list at a time) which is started before discovering this place.

Max Beerbohm is Wodehouse made a bit more mature and a bit more frivolous. some critic called Wodehouse's work 'Eden before the fall'. Beerbohm, at least in Zuleika Dobson is Eden continuously falling and rising.