I'd also love to talk about books as well, because I pretty much spend my free time either writing or reading (outside of the occasional binge drinking event, but that will probably stop because they get less enjoyable as time goes on).
What do you like to read? Old man and the sea is a classic, so that makes me wonder if you read a lot of older stuff?
My diet (for reading, not eating, since eating books is a bit odd) is mostly things from the classic section, with the occasional modern science fiction book. Right now I'm reading leaves of grass by walt whitman and a novel of short sea stories by Herman Mellville. Even though they're old, the prose (I hate that word but I'm using it anyways) is on a completely different level than anything written now. Plus, the intellectual concepts (which is a bit unfair to say from someone like me who only has a pea sized amount of grey matter in my brain) are far more in depth than anything written today. So, it's not like I despise modern literature, but it feels like I have to read old stuff out of necessity, because a bunch of things that made books great have been lost (save for the few cormac mcarthys or orson scott cards).
He was spot on in the assessment that people will always be oppressed as long as some are born dumb, disabled, etc - while the people with better genetics (which sounds weird to say, but I don't mean it with malice) will always be better off. The the envisioning of the future as giving the downtrodden a purpose that they enjoy (despite the horrible methods to attain that happiness) was his vision of a necessity that he doesn't necessarily agree with, but felt that will be done because it needs to be done.
Too many people have either grossly unrealistic expectations for the future - in good or bad ways, so his take on things to me always resonated because of how accurate it feels.
Also, I just recently finished for whom the bell tolls, and that book might be one of the greatest I've ever read. Hemmingway was truly on another level.
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What do you like to read? Old man and the sea is a classic, so that makes me wonder if you read a lot of older stuff?
My diet (for reading, not eating, since eating books is a bit odd) is mostly things from the classic section, with the occasional modern science fiction book. Right now I'm reading leaves of grass by walt whitman and a novel of short sea stories by Herman Mellville. Even though they're old, the prose (I hate that word but I'm using it anyways) is on a completely different level than anything written now. Plus, the intellectual concepts (which is a bit unfair to say from someone like me who only has a pea sized amount of grey matter in my brain) are far more in depth than anything written today. So, it's not like I despise modern literature, but it feels like I have to read old stuff out of necessity, because a bunch of things that made books great have been lost (save for the few cormac mcarthys or orson scott cards).
Too many people have either grossly unrealistic expectations for the future - in good or bad ways, so his take on things to me always resonated because of how accurate it feels.
Also, I just recently finished for whom the bell tolls, and that book might be one of the greatest I've ever read. Hemmingway was truly on another level.
Do you have a favorite author/book?