Letters Of Note - Briefe, Die Die Welt Bedeuten (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
A disappointment! I was expecting unbelievable prose and enflaming letters no such thing. It is largely a compilation of letters from famous people (eg who cares about the scopes recipe from the Queen whereas we would have loved a proper letter from her). I am exaggerating a bit and there are good letters in there - my favourite one was one from Sol Lewitt to Eva Hesse, the style is amazing. It is a nice book to read (coffee table book) but does not deserve to be on of the best books of 2014 as rated by the magazine Lire. Easy to read, a nice reading, nothing extraordinary. Want to know Queen Elizabeth II's drop scone recipe? Why Winston Churchill received a tongue-lashing from his wife? And how Leonardo da Vinci sold his talent on a resume? All you have to do is pick up Shaun Usher's "Letters of Note: An Ecletic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience."Inside the 350-page tome, Usher, who also runs the widely successful "Letters of Note" blog, has compiled some fascinating correspondence spanning several centuries and highlighting some of the world's brightest minds.Some notable letter writers include musical legend Elvis Presley, "Slaughterhouse-Five" author Kurt Vonnegut and evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin. But despite these awe-inspiring names, letters from these giants of human history serve as a poignant reminder that these legends lived ordinary lives riddled with moments of doubt, fear and mistakes.British comedy legend John Cleese, for example, had his proposal for a new television show turned down by a BBC executive. That television show, of course, was "Fawlty Towers" that would eventually be named the best British television series once it finally made the airwaves. Random facts like that make "Letters of Note" a fascinating read for collectors of curiosities, trivia buffs and history nerds alike.
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My husband got this for me for Mother's Day and I LOVE IT.
—PassionCade83
Heerlijk boek om af en toe een paar brieven uit te lezen.
—HappyReader
