“In Search of Dracula” by Raymond T. McNally & Radu Florescu
The reading portion of this investigation was my favorite part, and the book that stands out is In Search of Dracula. McNally’s and Florescu’s book is a treasure trove of information.
While Time Remains by Yeonmi Park
But Yeonmi Park, the young author of While Time Remains, confronts us with the fact that the menace of totalitarianism, especially the leftist variety, is all around us, right here in America!
Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander, M.D.
So while I recommend Proof of Heaven to readers who are intrigued by this topic, it would be wise to consider a wide range of near-death experiences rather than focus on this one alone.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Published in 1962, A Clockwork Orange might soon have been forgotten had it not been made into a celebrated and notorious Stanley Kubrick movie.
“Bend Sinister” by Vladimir Nabokov
Readers should not expect realism from this book. The Soviet and Nazi regimes served only as raw material for a work that is in large part fantastical.
“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Though it might all sound depressing, I found The Diving Bell to be inspiring. Many topics are explored, though two themes have struck me with special force.
The Living Lincoln:
And while I do not pooh-pooh such things, they do not prompt me to damn the memory of Lincoln, a la “cancel culture”; especially when I take into account his struggle against a form of racism that was a thousand times more oppressive and evil.
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The gist of the ‘rime’ is the old man’s recollection of the guilty and fateful part he played in a doomed sea voyage.
How to Read a Novel by Caroline Gordon
The more ambitious student of How to Read a Novel could use it as a guide and primer to these many authors and their works, and attain thereby a truly profound understanding of literature.
The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War
Again, this is a painful read; and also lengthy. But for anyone who wants to know the whole story of the Holocaust—insofar as that is obtainable to mere readers of history—Martin Gilbert’s work is invaluable.
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