RelyK
08-10-2009, 11:20 PM
Hey everyone,
20 year old college kid here.
Recently a lot of things have been changing for me and I've felt the need to explore and learn as much as I can. So I've started reading again.
Im a very cynical person, tend to be a skeptic, and have found comfort in books from authors such as Hemingway, Burgess, Dostoevsky, Vonnegut, Orwell, Kerouac, and many others. books that really get me thinking. These days I cant pick up a book without feeling that it was adapted to the handheld format from a movie by one of the following directors: Wes Anderson, Michael Bay, George Lucas or other seemingly trivial (IMO), but none the less entertaining, works of modern cinema.
I joined the forums in the pursuit of overall enlightenment, to find more books that challenge my commonly held perceptions and expose me to new ideas. Something to both entertain me and keep me thinking. I've now read A Clockwork Orange more than 10 times because there isn't another book I have found that so grotesquely depicts human nature in the absence of guidance and then has the audacity to ask what cost is too much in order to save it. Lord of the Flies accomplishes one of those tasks and was entertaining but for me it was a story and didn't continue to weigh on my mind after I finished the last page.
I hope I can find what I am looking for on the forums and I will try to do some research on my own instead of just posting... What book should I read
20 year old college kid here.
Recently a lot of things have been changing for me and I've felt the need to explore and learn as much as I can. So I've started reading again.
Im a very cynical person, tend to be a skeptic, and have found comfort in books from authors such as Hemingway, Burgess, Dostoevsky, Vonnegut, Orwell, Kerouac, and many others. books that really get me thinking. These days I cant pick up a book without feeling that it was adapted to the handheld format from a movie by one of the following directors: Wes Anderson, Michael Bay, George Lucas or other seemingly trivial (IMO), but none the less entertaining, works of modern cinema.
I joined the forums in the pursuit of overall enlightenment, to find more books that challenge my commonly held perceptions and expose me to new ideas. Something to both entertain me and keep me thinking. I've now read A Clockwork Orange more than 10 times because there isn't another book I have found that so grotesquely depicts human nature in the absence of guidance and then has the audacity to ask what cost is too much in order to save it. Lord of the Flies accomplishes one of those tasks and was entertaining but for me it was a story and didn't continue to weigh on my mind after I finished the last page.
I hope I can find what I am looking for on the forums and I will try to do some research on my own instead of just posting... What book should I read