Books I Have Already Reviewed 05

Continuing a review of books I have already reviewed with a brief statement of what I found interesting in them. (05)

Dictionary of Foreign Terms. 1975. Pithy quotes from all over the world. From Latin: "Old men are twice children." French: "A wager is a fool's argument."

Don Quixote DeLa Mancha. Miguel de Cervantes. Part One, 1605. Part Two: 1615. Novel. A country gentleman becomes mad as he tries to live the life of chivalry, but in Part Two, he becomes a true hero. Note the wealth of proverbs.

The Double Helix: A Personal account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. James D. Watson. 1968. Another example of how success in science is not a straight forward process.

Editors on Editing: What Writers Need to Know about What Editors Do. Ed. Gerald Gross. 1993. If you think editors simply proofread their authors' texts, you don't know one-tenth of what they actually do. In fact, more and more of the proofreading is expected of the author. Editors sell the book within the publishing company and to the public at large.

The Eighth Day. Thornton Wilder. 1967. Novel. On the Seventh Day, God rested. On the Eighth Day, people began to create.

Emma. Jane Austen. 1816. Novel. Emma is a matchmaker who learns that when she manipulates people, she becomes destructive.

End Zone. Don DeLillo. 1973. Novel. One of DeLillo's early books. He captures the spirit and befuddlement of college football players. See Ken Denlinger's For the Glory for a nonfiction account of the same experience. In DeLillo's novel, the pick-up football game in the snow is all you need to know about the life of a college football player. They go through the motions as if mesmerized.

The English Novel. Walter Allen. 1958. History of the English novel from Richardson to Joyce, who have something in common: they both remove the novelist as intermediary.

Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud. Herbert Marcuse. 1955. Civilization and society are repressive. What would happen if that repression and thwarted energy were allowed to enjoy its full use to create? Walden Two is a "fictionalized" treatment of a similar theme. In fact it may be one answer to my question about Marcuse's book: how to release 100% of people's energy to fulfill their potential?