hehe,this sounds familiar to me, bass and I do not like quotes books.Ali when I read Robinsone Kruso, I like it me and I was read several times ... currently reading a book of Musa Ćazim Ćatić .. this is us Bosnian writer and poet. .

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Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray is considered one of the last works of classic gothic horror fiction with a strong Faustian theme. It deals with the artistic movement of the decadents, and homosexuality, both of which caused some controversy when the book was first published. However, in modern times, the book has been referred to as "one of the modern classics of Western literature."

'We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.' (quote from the Preface)

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I'm always reading more than one book at a time. So, these are my last ones, I can't remember the order:

• "The Prisoner of Zelda" by Anthony Hope
• "Yesterday y mañana" by Mario Benedetti
• "Los últimos días del Che" (Che's Last Days) by Juan Ignacio Siles del Valle

The Prisoner of Zelda is a well written adventures novel, and I read it on my cellphone on the bus trips to school last month. Also, I'm looking for reading "Rupert of Hentzau", written by the same author. I suppose is about the life of a character of the book I read.

"Yesterday y mañana" (Yesterday and Tomorrow) is an excellent poems book. The writer is not well known in the English-speaking world, but in the Spanish-speaking world he is considered one of Latin America's most important living writers. I'd love to leave you a piece of his poetry in this post, but it's copyrighted and, most importantly, I wouldn't dare to translate his work. Anyway, if you want me to send you some poems in Spanish, just pm me (I don't think that's against the rules, isn't it?).

Last but not least, Siles del Valle book is about the last days of the Commander Ernesto "Che" Guevara, during his activities inciting revolution in Bolivia, including his execution. The book mixes documents, press stuff, testimonials with many pieces of fiction with things that happened and some things that the author imagined. It's not a book for reference but it's fine.

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The last [fiction] book I read was "Class A" by Robert Muchamore, the second in the CHERUB series about an organisation that uses children as spies. It was ... really good. One of the main themes was cocaine dealing and there was technical information as well as entertaining action and humour. All the CHERUB books (that I've read) maintain a sense of realism despite the main idea being something that could be seen as extremely farfetched.

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The last book I read was 'The Odyssey' by Homer. I had to read for my high school English class. At first, I didn't get anything. Seriously, I was clueless throughout the entire book, but toward the end, I started to understand it - I knew I had to understand it to do good on my Final. It was a really good book. I really learned some stuff about 'Human Nature' from the book and how people's actions compare to people even long ago.

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