Who has read “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry?
I finished “Still Life With Crows” by Preston and Child today (loved it, Pendergast is easily one of my favorite fictional characters), and picked up “The Little Prince” since it was sitting right there on my desk.
I did a book report on “The Little Prince” back in grade school, where you get points for trying. I know the only reason I chose to read it was because it wasn’t even half an inch thick. This must have been towards the end of fifth grade when I stopped caring so much about over-achieving. I’d be up at the middle school building a year from then, and I had more important things to learn. Like how to fasten a bra.
So yeah, picked it back up today and read it in one sitting. Everything I absorbed this time around satisfied me in the same way discovering the key to the universe would satisfy mom’s nuclear physicist friend, Charlotte. Apparently you have to be at least 20 years old to appreciate that book.
Considering my life this year, two chapters really jumped out at me, chapters 20 and 21, and I think if you have five minutes (that’s really all it would take) it wouldn’t hurt you to read them, either.
Here is a link to the book in its entirety, complete with Antoine’s illustrations.
Monday, September 21, 2009 at 11:24 PM
I actually just finished reading A Little Prince to Mally about a week ago.
Friday, October 2, 2009 at 11:15 AM
“There is a flower… I think that she has tamed me…”
FUCK