Alan Braswell

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Alan.


The Resting Place
Alan Braswell is currently reading
by Camilla Sten (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Loading...
Ernst Jünger
“Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment.”
Ernst Jünger, The Glass Bees

Kendare Blake
“You make me want things I can't have.”
Kendare Blake, Anna Dressed in Blood

Ernst Jünger
“Human perfection and technical perfection are incompatible. If we strive for one, we must sacrifice the other: there is, in any case, a parting of the ways. Whoever realises this will do cleaner work one way or the other.

Technical perfection strives towards the calculable, human perfection towards the incalculable. Perfect mechanisms - around which, therefore, stands an uncanny but fascinating halo of brilliance - evoke both fear and Titanic pride which will be humbled not by insight but only by catastrophe.

The fear and enthusiasm we experience at the sight of perfect mechanisms are in exact contrast to the happiness we feel at the sight of a perfect work of art. We sense an attack on our integrity, on our wholeness. That arms and legs are lost or harmed is not yet the greatest danger.”
Ernst Jünger, The Glass Bees

Ernst Jünger
“How can one explain this trend towards a more colorless and shallow life? Well, the work was easier, if less healthy, and it brought in more money, more leisure, and perhaps more entertainment. A day in the country is long and hard. And yet the fruits of their present life were worthless compared to a single coin of their former life: a rest in the evening and a rural festivity. That they no longer knew the old kind of happiness was obvious from the discontentment which spread over their features. Soon dissatisfaction, prevailing over all their other moods, became their religion.”
Ernst Jünger, The Glass Bees

Kendare Blake
“If this is mytstical, what the heck is Advil going to do about it?”
Kendare Blake, Anna Dressed in Blood

136419 LITTLE BOOK CLUB — 6797 members — last activity Dec 09, 2021 05:14AM
AMERICAN GODS Liveshow: Date TBA Due to popular demand, I have decided to start up a book club! I'll be organising some read-a-longs each month or so ...more
607853 Our Book Journey — 24 members — last activity Jul 14, 2019 05:33AM
We'll read about 1 book a month, and our goal is a literary journey across the world. We'll start off with books from countries that our members live ...more
year in books
Brian R...
869 books | 260 friends

Shawn M...
6,511 books | 1,025 friends

Megan C...
70 books | 455 friends

Linda M...
2,562 books | 417 friends

Keith
61 books | 221 friends

Sadie H...
4,998 books | 5,001 friends

Lewis W...
4,399 books | 2,458 friends

Emily (...
2,020 books | 4,491 friends

More friends…
The Vampire Lestat by Anne RiceInterview with the Vampire by Anne RiceMemnoch the Devil by Anne RiceThe Vampire Armand by Anne RiceThe Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
The Best of Anne Rice
26 books — 237 voters
The Shining by Stephen  KingMisery by Stephen  King
Stephen King Books I've Read
119 books — 109 voters

More…



Polls voted on by Alan

Lists liked by Alan