Jhonny itibaren Norgėlai 96291, Litvanya
I just reread this. It's a crime the details that the movie has washed from my memory. My dislike for the movies grow the more I compare them.
This isn't the easiest read, but it's a classic.
This is the second of Yuan Zhou's books on the professional playing styles of various contemporary professional Go players. Yuan does a good job of pointing out the differences in each of the playing styles of each player in the series. In Particular, Yuan does an excellent job of explaining and defining Go Seigen's style of play, which is no easy task. However, I don't think that Yuan went far enough, as he only covered two games. For eighteen dollars it is not as good of a deal as say, "Invincible: The Games of Shusaku," by John Power. Which has reviews of over eighty of Shusaku's professional games, which I bought for fourty dollars (that's a deal at two games per dollar). Now, if Yuan had only pushed his studies further and tried to offer up a study of a wider range of Go Seigen's games that he played over his career, I would have given this book a higher rating. Still, this book does have a lot of useful lessons to be gleaned from it, and it belongs in the personal libraries of every serious student of this game.
Very funny recounting of the life of Christ. Worth the read, regardless of your beliefs, as long as you don't take it too seriously....
I enjoyed this book. I was brought into the glitzy world of authors/artists living in Paris in the 1920's. Although this was a work of fiction, the author did quite a bit of research to remain quite true to the story. I really liked Hadley and do believe that she was the love of Ernest Hemmingway's life. I believe he allowed himself to get too caught up in the crowd he was running in, ultimately ruining his marriage with the choices he made. It seems clear in other references that he regretted these choices later in life. I knew going into the book that the marriage would end in divorce, and that there was another woman involved. What I did not realize was that this woman was a close friend of Hadley's. I was completely devastated over the turn of events. This novel has definitely piqued my interest in reading other Hemmingway novels and his memoir, A Moveable Feast.