“All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.” 🙂 Yes, that’s famous quotation from eternal ‘Doctor Faustus’ by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, one of these famous books people praise but don’t read.
To my mind, exactly this “forever green tree life” is the most important thing in literature. As you can see, I dont mean a ganre, style or manner of writing one or another book.
So many books written by many, very often talanted, authors, but so little time to read them all! However there are books you can read over and over again, gettting, besides beauty and aesthetic enjoyment, something very important from. The books which inspire in different ways.
I talk about these books which great genius leaves are delivering down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity, educated to become more human and more free. A good book has no ending. It doesn’t happen much, though.
However here is the list of bestsellers 2013 from the New York Times:
CALCULATED IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb. (Penguin Group.) Lt. Eve Dallas must crunch the numbers as she investigates the death of a successful accountant; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.
THE STORYTELLER, by Jodi Picoult. (Simon & Schuster.) A New Hampshire baker finds herself in the midst of two Holocaust stories: her grandmother’s story of survival, and the confessions of an elderly German man, an SS officer.
ALEX CROSS, RUN, by James Patterson. (Little, Brown & Company.) While Alex Cross pursues a Washington serial killer (or killers?), someone is after him.
SAFE HAVEN, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central Publishing.) The arrival of a mysterious young woman in a small North Carolina town raises questions about her past.
GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. (Crown Publishing.) A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer?
THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, by Matthew Quick. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux.) A man recently released from a mental institution has two obsessions: his estranged wife and the Philadelphia Eagles. The basis of the movie; originally published in 2009.
A WEEK IN WINTER, by Maeve Binchy. (Knopf Doubleday Publishing.) Guests at an inn by the sea on Ireland’s west coast; the final book by Binchy, who died in 2012.
IMMORTAL EVER AFTER, by Lynsay Sands. (HarperCollins Publishers.) Valerie Moyer doesn’t believe in vampires — until she is kidnapped by a fanged psychopath.
LIFE OF PI, by Yann Martel. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.) A teenage boy and a 450-pound tiger on a lifeboat after a shipwreck; originally published in 2002 and now a movie.
FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, by E. L. James. (Knopf Doubleday Publishing.) A college student falls in love with a tortured man with particular sexual tastes; the first of a trilogy.
WAIT FOR ME, by Elisabeth Naughton. (Elisabeth Naughton.) As she digs into her past, a woman who has lost her memory in an accident is drawn to a man in San Francisco.
MIRROR IMAGE, by Sandra Brown. (Grand Central Publishing.) An airplane accident and plastic surgery give a woman an astonishing new life; originally published in 1990.
FALLEN TOO FAR, by Abbi Glines. (Abbi Glines.) A sheltered 19-year-old girl falls in love with her spoiled, sexy stepbrother.
RUSH, by Maya Banks. (Penguin Group.) Gabe Hamilton, a wealthy hotel owner, and Mia Crestwell, the much younger sister of his best friend, embark on an obsessive relationship.
“All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.”
Great Quotes Every Day 