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Thursday, October 7, 2010
an exercise in mind expansion
so since I left school I haven't so much as opened a book,
I think it's about time I get back in gear and ya know
read something with more literary value than People magazine
so here's my list (cause you know I'm a big list maker)
of books to finish by the end of the year
(and yea I know I'm supposed to have already read some of these in high school, but you didn't either so hush)
I think it's about time I get back in gear and ya know
read something with more literary value than People magazine
so here's my list (cause you know I'm a big list maker)
of books to finish by the end of the year
(and yea I know I'm supposed to have already read some of these in high school, but you didn't either so hush)
- Atlas Shrugged -Ayn Rand
- A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
- Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
- The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- Mrs. Dallowway - Virginia Woolf
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
"I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton woool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood into a kind of spiritual and physical semi-invalidism. In this they are encouraged by wives and relatives, and it's such a sweet trap." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley)
I hope to never be so tied and bound to societies social rules that I smother my impluses (aside from any destructive ones), or hood my passions. That's the stuff life is made of, be it good bad or inbetween.
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