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I've just started reading. Never liked it before, now finding it an important relief for boredom.

Now I'm translating the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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lmao

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Originally posted by cmsMaster
An easier question might be 'what shouldn't I read'.

But since you didn't ask that...

Vonnegut, especially Cat's Cradle, Slaughter-House 5, Breakfast of Champions, and I hear good things about Galapagos.

Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves (insane...)

Or if you're looking for potentially more intellectual but still entertaining reading maybe look at...

Tolkien - LOTR

Orwell - 1984
Good choices to get a mind going down the beautiful road of reading.

Lord of the Flies (William Golding), perhaps. Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury). Heck, even The Hotel New Hampshire (John Irving)

Joseph Conrad and Faulkner down the road.

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Originally posted by badmoon
Good choices to get a mind going down the beautiful road of reading.

Lord of the Flies (William Golding), perhaps. Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury). Heck, even The Hotel New Hampshire (John Irving)

Joseph Conrad and Faulkner down the road.
LOTF and F451 are both very good - had to read those for school.

I didn't enjoy F451 so much because I had to read it in a night....

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Originally posted by badmoon
Good choices to get a mind going down the beautiful road of reading.

Lord of the Flies (William Golding), perhaps. Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury). Heck, even The Hotel New Hampshire (John Irving)

Joseph Conrad and Faulkner down the road.
If we're speaking about giants like Faulkner, then let's not forget the great Hemingway.

🙂

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Originally posted by Seitse
Oh wow!

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Can you translate, please? 😳
I found a translation here: http://www.englisch.schule.de/state_of_the_union/group4/project/hesse_re.htm

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Originally posted by Nordlys
I found a translation here: http://www.englisch.schule.de/state_of_the_union/group4/project/hesse_re.htm
beautiful 🙂

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Catch 22 by Joseph Heller is an excellent book.

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Originally posted by reinfeld
..you will find the nero wolfe detective series by rex stout a nice read....the books cover a time period from the 1920's thru to the late 1970's...all take
place in new york city ( except for a trip to montenegro )...the vocabulary is
both versatile and contextual to the passing times as is the technology and historical references as the decades pass...t ...[text shortened]... an ankle wrapped in fishnet standing by my computer ready to to to church...so i must stop...
how about the Reinfeld series ... those were good ...

at least i thot it was Reinfeld but i don't find it on wikipedia ... don't remember the author but he wrote kind of like john updike or philip roth ...