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Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness

52 reviews
Joshua Wolf Shenk

Houghton Mifflin, 2005

Inspirational for everyone, especially those who share his burden
This is a beautifully written book about Lincoln--the complete man. Joshua Wolf Shank does a lovely job of describing how Lincoln learned from his bouts with depression and could only have persevered through his difficult, war-time presidency with the wisdom he gained from his melancholy. We often think of Lincoln solely as a pillar of strength; seeing him at his weakest paradoxically deepens ...

Melancholy Baby (Sunny Randall Novels)

40 reviews
Robert B. Parker

Berkley, 2005

Robert Parker Sunny Randall series
Love the Sunny Randall series. Easy and fun to read. This is the fourth book in the series.

Anatomy of Melancholy, Part 1

21 reviews
Robert Burton

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2002

Vivisect your mind
Where to begin discussing this book? How about again and again? For it begs never to be put down, and if finished (as if that's even possible) to be picked up again and pored over. Again. And again. And again . . . It got Samuel Jonson out of bed earlier than he wished. It kept me up later than I wished, and still "reading" it in my mind over and over again, musing on the insanity of it - the ...

Memories of My Melancholy Whores

107 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Penguin, 2007

A parable on sex, and love, and the bed they make to lie in.
This book's genius is its masterful infusion with the element of surprise. The story's title suggests that we will perhaps be subjected to a nostalgic self-indulgent account of the sexual adventures of some callous testosterone-bloated man. Instead, we find a hero who is thoughtful, generous, and exquisitely sensitive and attuned to his lovers' slightest moves. Our stud-hero is cast as a ...

Medicine for Melancholy

2 reviews
Ray Bradbury

Bantam Books (Mm), 1981

Good fiction, though not among Bradbury's best
Some of Bradbury's books have retained all their power extraordinarily well: Farenheit 451, Martian Chronicles, and Dandelion Wine are my favorites. Those novels (to use the term rather loosely) exemplefy Bradbury's imaginative charm, warmth, and meaningfulness. A Medicine for Melancholy is not nearly so sturdy as those books, but is nonetheless an enjoyable, if light, experience. Bradbury ...

The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief (Race and American Culture)
Anne Anlin Cheng

Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne Anlin Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. The Melancholy of Race proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholic act--a social category that is imaginatively supported through a dynamic of loss and compensation, by which the racial other is at once rejected and retained. Using ...

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Vol. 2 (Manga) (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)
Nagaru Tanigawa, Gaku Tsugano, ...

Yen Press, 2009

When Haruhi Suzumiya introduces herself to Kyon by asking if he's an alien, time traveler, or psychic, he knows his chances for a normal high school experience are ruined. Bold Haruhi takes a shine to him, and uses the force of her irrepressible personality to draft him into her club to find paranormal beings. Kyon soon discovers what she¹s looking for: Haruhi herself has the power to destroy and create entire universes at her whim. But if she ...

The Masks of Melancholy: A Christian Physician Looks at Depression & Suicide

1 review
John White

Intervarsity Pr, 1982

Are you called to counsel?
If you're answering your call to counseling the needy, those in pain, the lost and forgotten then this book is for you. John White answers the many hidden questions about secular and Christian counseling. His style of writing is superb, easy to understand yet difficult since it's a complex subject. But the difficulty makes one yearn to search on, to continue helping those in need. I'm currently ...

Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy

19 reviews
Eric G. Wilson

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

buy it...or not.
If you look at this book, read an excerpt, and _still_ scratch your head about it...this book is, quite simply, not for you. If, however, you heard about it on NPR or read an article or read an excerpt and it immediately called to you on a fundamental level, this book absolutely is for you. This book was a fantastic way of describing the "me" that has always been indescribable. I found in its ...

Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

133 reviews
Tim Burton

HarperEntertainment, 2002

Dark and funny.
There isn't a whole lot to not like about this book. While it is short, sometimes brevity is key to good storytelling. Tim Burton's little comic strip style book perfectly captures readers with it's dark wit and laughable illustrations. While this is and never could be considered good literature by any stretch of the imagination, it is never-the-less an entertaining read with a cast of ...

Father Melancholy's Daughter

24 reviews
Gail Godwin

Harper Perennial, 1997

A great story with some thought-provoking ideas
I read this book with a highlighter in one hand. There are so many thought-provoking places in this beautiful and well-written story. I am looking forward to reading the sequel, "Evensong." Here are two great quotes: "Not until we accept our shortcomings can we do God's will in the world. Each person has a specific shortcoming to accept and endure and try to work on. It's that person's task, it ...

The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva

1 review

Oxford University Press, USA, 2002

A fine anthology
Philosopher Radden culls the works of 32 authors, preceded by an excellent 50-page introduction to the topic, once a commonplace idea, now "an insignificant category, of little interest to medicine or pscyhology..." The pleasure in learning from this valuable work is a modicum of joy in the midst of sorrow. My full review appeared in The Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2002.

The Melancholy of Resistance

2 reviews
Laszlo Krasznahorkai

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2002

Intense, rewarding, great
Hungarian author uses deep metaphor to set quest for meaning in a world of political struggle, chaos, and greed - Difficult and intensely rewarding. Definitely not an easy read. The basic story is of a small contemporary Hungarian town. Work is scarce and society is disintegrating, when a strange circus touting the world's greatest whale arrives and draws a large and dangerous crowd of ...

Melancholy And the Care of the Soul: Religion, Moral Philosophy And Madness in Early Modern England (The ...
Jeremy Schmidt

Ashgate Publishing, 2007

The Anatomy of Melancholy: Volume V: Commentary from Part.1, Sect.2, Memb.4, Subs.1 to the End of the Second ...
Robert Burton

Oxford University Press, USA, 2000

This volume contains commentary on the text from Partition 1, Section 2, Member 4, Subscription 1 to the end of the second Partition. It thus includes Burton's account of the causes, symptoms, and prognosis of melancholy, and his examination of remedies, spiritual and medical.

The Age of Melancholy: Major Depression and Its Social Origins

2 reviews
Dan G. Blazer

Routledge, 2005

An excellent argument
Depression levels are skyrocketing: in recent decades medication has been used to treat psychological depression, but the condition has its roots in society as well, and thus society should be held accountable: that's the message of The Age Of Melancholy: "Major Depression" And Its Social Origins. Chapters promote social psychiatry, which looks at social trends and environmental factors in an ...

Melancholy Dialectics: Walter Benjamin and the Play of Mourning (Critical Perspectives on Modern Culture)
Max Pensky

University of Massachusetts Press, 2001

"Pensky's study provides a compelling argument for locating melancholia at the center of Benjamin's thought. Because of its provocative nature, it promises to spark the interest of Benjamin critics, scholars, and students in this otherwise neglected aspect of his work."-German Quarterly "Pensky shows Benjamin's ideas of a new criticism of nature and culture to be based on his schema of mourning and melancholy; as well Pensky explains the ...

Wit And Mirth Or Pills To Purge Melancholy V2: Being A Collection Of The Best Merry Ballads And Songs, Old ...
Thomas D'Urfey

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008

Worse Than Beasts: An Anatomy of Melancholy and the Literature of Travel in 17th and 18th Century England ...
Jennifer I. M. Reid

The Davies Group Publishers, 2005

From 1500 to 1700, the English encountered the people of five continents, who were similarly portrayed in English travel literature. This monograph explores the derogatory aspect of these portrayals. Discussion begins with the coincidence of images of non-Europeans and madmen in Gulliver's Travels, which is an entrée to exploring an association between madness and foreigners in the English imagination. Gulliver's Travels and Robert Burton's ...

The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove

108 reviews
Christopher Moore

Harper Paperbacks, 2004

Christopher Moore
The author hasn't written a bad book yet. Completely amusing and the characters are well developed as normal everyday people. Very relatable. If a regular person ended up in the situations the characters do, they would react the same. Lust Lizard is one of my favorites.

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