"Outer Dark" is a dark and sad parabolic tale of violent, desires, sins and mysteries. It's a creepy story of people far out of the way of society, able to do what and when they want.
      "Outer Dark" is the story of Rinthy and Culla Holmes, siblings residing in an isolated cabin in Johnson County. Rinthy, a nineteen-year-old girl, gives birth to her brother's baby. Culla, scared of the consequences, takes the baby and leaves it in the woods to die, telling his sister the child fell ill and died and that he buried the child. She knows he lied because she quickly discovers an empty grave and decides to find her child. Rinthy knows that she must find a tinker because no one else has passed their home in months and she supposes that her brother has sold the baby.

     Cormac McCarthy is an impressive writer and his novels always are unique and thrilling. Cormac McCarthy is a true genius.
      I have to be honest with you - reading "Outer Dark" is like a scary and shocking experience. Walking on the edge of the dark chasm of emotions. "Outer Dark" is an amazing novel about fear, sins, devotion and relations between people.



       "Outer Dark" has a lot of great fragments and things hidden between the lines. A grim and horrific relation between siblings. The attitude of residents to a strange and lost girl looking for her child. The weight of sins and decisions. All these amazing and so real descriptions of feelings, people, places, thoughts.




        To be honest - "Outer Dark" can break you because this is not a happy novel. This novel is grim, sad and really difficult and that's why this book is so wonderful and impressive. "Outer Dark" is like a journey to another world. This book is worth reading.

Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. Author of e.g.: "Child of God", "No Country for Old Men", "The Road", "Suttree".
You can find more info about Mr. McCarthy on his official page.

      "Waiting for Bojangles" is a short story of Louise and George, an eccentric couple, who enjoy every second of the life. Their everyday life isn't normal and only black & white; it's something remarkable, surprising, just like a million colors and tastes. They're dancing to the music of Nina Simone's Mr Bojangles, changing their names, drinking colored cocktails at all times of the day and the night. They are just happy.
     The whole story is described by their son, who saw everything, but not always has understood everything. Even words written by his father about his beloved wife who was sick. The story of their first meeting, falling in love, understanding and accepting Louise as she is and trying to keep their family together even during the hardest moments.
     His love to Louise was so deep that in the end took everything - both of them.



       This book is magical. It's about love and sacrifices, about enjoying the moment. The story isn't a typical love story, but a story of love and darkness. And about life and death.




      I think there's a few things creating this story. Pure love to the person who needs your care, who need a different world to live and be happy. Sacrifices for people who you love. Loneliness hide behind the smile and jokes. Misunderstandings.



    "Waiting for Bojangles" is a short novel but it's full of emotions and magic. You can find inside everything: laughter, cry, love, hate, silence , sounds of "Mr Bojangles". This book is for everybody.
     If you love a good stories I'm sure you will like this one.

What of Art?
-It is a malady.
--Love?
-An Illusion.
--Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
--You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
--What are you?
-To define is to limit.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

       Every thing, every person, every place - everything has its own, unique and remarkable smell. Every memory is a fragrance. The life is a fragrance, an amazing palette of fragrances.
    What will you do with it? 


     Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is an unique and original story about life and death, about the gift and the curse, about the attempt to keep it what's impossible and fleeting - fragrance of world.

     Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is the story of a serial killer, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille - a man born with the ability to smell every little thing in the world, but who has no scent of his own. The place of action, 18th century France, is full of images, fragrances and ideas to create something new, something beautiful.
    Grenouille is using his nose as the compass and the map to identify each layer of fragrance existing in the world. Streets, plants, fabrics, furniture, people - he can deconstruct even the most complex aromas and re-experience, or invent new experiences by combining, in his mind, fragrances that have never before been layered with one another. He is like the god of fragrances.
     One day Jean-Baptiste is discovering something new, unusual - fragrance which is bewitching and enslaving. In a flash this smell becomes everything what he lives for and he does whatever he must to obtain it. He will do everything, even kill, to have this fragrance.

     Who will be next?
       What smell has a death?
          How this game will end?
            What will happen on sweaty streets of 18th century France?



         Because this book, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, is something different. This is a story full of dark secrets of human mind and wild desire. This book has a perfect the end, it's surprising and strong. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is what the man is afraid the most of.



      The dark side of the soul and mind of the man - how does it look like? What is worse - death for idealistic reasons or simple life? What a man can do to get what he wants?



Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a novel full of extreme emotions and with incredibly and surprising fragments with remarkable the end. It's good to read it when you have more than five seconds because you need some time to think about the words inside the book.

Why does this war have to destroy anything and everything that’s fine and beautiful?

If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer.

Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other.

       Every page of this book shows the pure madness of the War and the various place, people and tragedies.That special feeling of being lost, not-understand, attempt to find the own place, a normal life.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

'You have to carry the fire.'
'I don't know how to.'
'Yes, you do.'
'Is the fire real? The fire?'
'Yes it is.'
'Where is it? I don't know where it is.'
'Yes you do. It's inside you. It always was there. I can see it.'

   "The Road" is a painful, beautiful, horrifying, heartfelt extremely dark novel, a tale of the end of the  World what we know. In the near future everything is changing. The World is covered in ash, the sun blotted out, food is so scarce and cannibalism is the norm. Small groups of people survived the worst  but virtually all other animal and vegetative life has vanished. The new World of grey, black, and white, the new World of no hope, pain, no good and no future.
    For the Father and the Boy, the main characters of the novel, this is the real World, the real life. Every day they have to fight; fight with hunger, with the weather, with danger, with other people. They have to fight for the next sunrise and the next sunset.
     A man and his son are traveling along a highway to the South to avoid the onslaught of winter, across a cold, barren, ash-ridden and abandoned land and pushing all their worldly goods in a wonky shopping trolley.
     But the worst is just coming, they don't know about it yet.

 

'There is a reason God limits our days.'
'Why?'
'To make each one precious.'

                                                            "The Time Keeper" Mitch Albom

 

   "The Time Keeper" is a short novel full of magic and amazing fragments, quotes. This book is something special, something what will stay with you for a long time, not only for five minutes.




      "The Time Keeper" is a story of three lives: Dor, Victor Delmonte and Sarah Lemon.
  Dor is a Father Time, who misses his childhood friend and wife - wonderful Alli. He created time and after that time stole his life from him. He has a chance for freedom and has to save two lives.
  Victor is the rich man who can have everything. He's suffering from dialysis and cancer racking his body and he wants time to last forever.
   Sarah, 17-year-old girl, who falls in love with a boy who doesn't love her back, and makes her feel terribly about herself. She wants her time to be over.
    There are three stories but Dor's life is the main story of the book. He is banished to a cave, where he must listen to humanity's every loud  plea for more time, for one more hour, one more day. After so many years Dor is send back to Earth, where he crosses paths with Sarah, the girl who loved and now is suffering-dying from her first heartache, and Victor, a rich old man trying to buy more time of his life. They must choose: life or death, freedom or pain, to be or not to be. Their meeting is a painful but valuable  lesson about time and love.



     Who will live, who will die? Who will be happy, and who will always live with sadness and pain? For whom time will come to an end?

With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have.

It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.

But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.

     Why? I know I should write here a long list with answers "why" but I won't do it. This story is so magical and so amazing that you don't need more special reasons to read it. All you need are two reasons: believe in the magic and spend your time [life] well. Because time is a very valuable possession indeed. 


     "The Time Keeper " has a secret message: Time is precious and we should always use and spend our days well. Some people want it [lifetime] to passed more quickly, others want time to slow down or even stops. But many of them, maybe even all people on the Earth before, present, in the future, take time for granted, for nothing special and exceptional. They don't appreciate the chance that they have to take a moment and survive something wonderful. To take a moment and save all these minutes, all these memories. We have to live, enjoy every moment, take everything - bad and good things - and live.

  Of Mice and Men is a novel published in 1937 and like East of Eden is one of the most amazing books by Steinbeck.