Classics on Digital Pensieve

The Looking Glass War by John le Carré

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 21:37:00 +0000

This book took its time, unfolding slowly as the groundwork was laid for sending an agent behind the lines in East Germany. At first, I found myself waiting for the story to really get going, but in hindsight, that slow build was part of the point. It reflected the tedious preparation, the quiet politics, and the weight of expectation that hung over every decision in the Cold War.

The Three Musketeers

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 17:26:00 +0000

Finished listening to the Audible Original Drama of the Three Musketeers. This was a fully dramatized audio book, with 39 actors bringing to life the characters of D’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis. While the dramatization is not a 100% faithful retelling of the Alexander Dumas classic, it is still very well done and very entertaining.

This was one of those audible books, that once I started, I wanted to keep listening to, until complete.

Nightfall

Sun, 06 Oct 2024 03:04:00 +0000

I read Nightfall and other stories by Isaac Asimov, back when I was a teenager (so 30 some years ago). This time around, I finished “reading” this book again, this time as an audio book, from Audible.

Nightfall and other stories is a collection of 20 stories, compiled by Asimov himself, who prefaced each story with an introduction. The first story is “Nightfall”, the tale of a world ordinarily illuminated by sunlight at all times. Darkness only happens once every 2000 years. This is the one story I remembered from the first time I read it, and it still one of the greatest science fiction stories of all time.