This is kind of broad, but could you give me recommendations about people improving upon some flaws they have, or becoming stronger. I would actually prefer autobiographies, but fiction is fine, too.
This is kind of broad, but could you give me recommendations about people improving upon some flaws they have, or becoming stronger. I would actually prefer autobiographies, but fiction is fine, too.
Don't hate me but give Les Miserables a try. It's long but worth it.
As for autobiographies try Total Recall by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ben Franklin's autobiography.
The Grass Arena by John Healy. It's an autobiography about a wayward lad who absconds from the army, becomes an alcoholic, a petty criminal and a vagrant, always in and out of prison. Eventually he gets into chess while in prison, tries to become a champion on his release, then gets into yoga. Nothing entirely works out but he gives up the drink and goes straight.
According to Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence once said that Balzac was 'a gigantic dwarf', and in a sense the same is true of Dickens.
Charles Dickens, by George Orwell
Cooked: My Journey from the Streets to the Stove by Jeff Henderson
It's all about turning your life around, period. If you don't feel like checking out reviews, I recommend watching his interviews first.
A Clockwork Orange, surely.
There has never been a single, great revolution in history without civil war. --- Vladimir Lenin
There are decades when nothing happens and then there are weeks when decades happen. --- Vladimir Lenin
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