Dobio sam danas knjigu "Buđenje svijesti" A. DeMello i moram priznati da me oduševljava.
Evo jednog isječka iz knjige:

Prošle godine čuo sam na španjolskoj televiziji ovu priču o jednom gospodinu koji je kucao na sinovljeva vrata. "Jaime", kaže, "probudi se!" Jaime odgovara: "Ne želim ustati, tata." Otac viče: "Ustani, moraš ići u školu!" Jaime kaže: "Neću ići u školu." "Zašto ne?" upita otac. "Postoje tri razloga." reče Jaime. "Prvo, zato što je to tako dosadno; drugo, zato jer me djeca zadirkuju; i treće, zato jer mrzim školu." A otac odgovara: "Čuj, ja ću ti reći tri razloga zašto moraš ići u školu. Prvo, zato što je to tvoja dužnost; drugo, zato što imaš četrdeset i pet godina; i treće, zato što si ravnatelj."

A s obzirom da ne koristim fecebook, twitter... odlučio sam ovdje sa vama podijeliti svoje zadovoljstvo knjigom.

Taj vic smo prepričavali još prije 20 godina, kao studenti. Dobar je, ali baš da je za knjigu...

Al ajde...

Ja sam svojedobno (ima 13 godina) pokušao čitati nešto od De Mella, ali bilo mi je to previše docirajuće. Nije mi se baš dopalo.

No, evo, da i ja citiram izvadak iz jedne od meni najdražih knjiga uopće, Douglas Adams "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy":

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terrible stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost for ever.

This is not her story.

But it is the story of that terrible stupid catastrophe and some of its consequences.

@smayoo
Ak nije problem može na kraju ovog citata iz vodiča i koja tvoja opaska zašto si izvukao baš taj citat ,...

Meni je cijela knjiga/film munjeni.

Renzo, lijepo je da si to podijelio s nama. Bacit ću pogled na tu knjigu ako mi dopadne šaka.

Meni omiljena knjiga je "Na zapadu ništa novo" i nemam sad neki prigodni citat osim da citiram sam naslov: "Na zapadu ništa novo".

Bertone kaže:


Zato što najkonciznije sažima svu Adamsovu ironiju kojom satirizira tu nakaradu zvanu "ljudska civilizacija".