Why do a boring old person thing like read?I use to dislike reading because I thought reading was for boring old people. It turned out I was correct, reading is for boring old people. Than I became a boring old person, so now I read. How to find a good bookThe more questons that answer with yes the more likely it is that the book is worth a read:
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Reading listCurrenly reading: 1985Been on my list for a while. I always wondered "how the fuck have I not read 1984 yet?". Well now I am reading it. Ever growing list of things I need to read
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A few reviews I guessWarning, most of these are Kurt Vonnegut books. I really need to try more authors rofl. The Last of the Really Great WhangdoodlesA underrated masterpiece. A must read. This book is mind opening in so many ways and will improve your life. Read it to your dog, your cat, your braindead grandparents... Afterwards give the Whangdoodles in Whangdoodle land a visit and tell them I said hihi. Its one of those childrens books that is strangely enjoyable for all ages. Cat's CradleDont waste your time reading the fucking bible. Read Cat's Cradle instead. Its a book with countless layers that all play into each other. Every detail is important and meaningful even if its enteracting with the story on a abstract level that doesnt show up at first. Cat's Cradle is the golden example of how to write a story. It has a way of almost feeling like its putting you in the middle of a historical event instead of simply telling a fictional story. It has a tastefully dialectical natural that makes every detail in the story work more like parts in a well tuned machine. Cat's Cradle might even be your vin-dit into Bokononism. The Sirens of TitanKurt Vonnegut books arent known for making very good movies but reguardless I need this one to be turned into a movie right now! It has a surreal almost dream like vibe like the army on the rusting metal surface of mars, the beautiful landscape of titan, and a flavor of sci-fi that seems fitting for the time it was written but strangely modern all at the same time. How the fuck can a book have so much blunt foreshadowing yet leave you completely unprepared for whats about to happen?! You must read this book. I will stage an entire war if you dont, I will make you get into a rocket and fly to titan if you dont. You have to read this book!!! GalapagosJesus be dammed, booked reviewers are harsh af on this masterpiece. Its always shit like "I cant understand the small clever details and it doesnt hold my hand and tell me everything in simple tv news approved words there for its a bad book". This book does a good job putting down Social Darwmism and explaining how evolution actually works. The way every detail connects is just wonderful and the way it so very carefully frames every moment passing by and choices what to bring into focus at any given moment. It has a way of spending most of the book on just a few days worth of events yet going into detail about the next one million years of humans. Its a work of absurb chaos carefully looked at under a microscope. The Children's CrusadeAn anti-war book from the 60s? Already sounds based! Anyways if you read this book you will become unstuck in time. Time doesnt move, we dont control time... Everything is already planed out and we are just looking at one moment at a time. Once you read this book you will instead see time for what it really is. Goodbye Blue MondayThis book starts out with a hand drawn picture of the authors asshole just to prove a point. It continues to include hand drawn pictures of the most random things throughout the book. What does the book say? I dont know because I never read it... fooled you! You believed me for a second didnt you? dumb ass! Well anyways, the book is about some dude who reads a sci-fi book and thinks its real. You know the same thing happened to me when I watched Star Wars for the first, second, and 10th time! Anyways, even though this book is a fucking mess everyone should be required to read it. In some twisted way you might learn a thing or two. Ready Player OneIts kind of a fucking mess of a book. Nothing about the story line itself is that creative by any means and the character design is kind of flat, but just the amount of details packed into it is insane. I dig the world building and just the grand scale of it all. The movie puts it to shame. Unlike the movie the egg hunt is actually difficult. Animal FarmIts a clever little book indeed. Had me laughing the entire time. Anyways, its not designed to be used entirely as a anti-socialist book. Think it through: so in the book the animal revolution is a socialist revolution, the humans are the capital owning class, the leaders who took control after the revolution was a pigs, years after the revolution the pigs started walking and dressing like humans and they even became friends with the humans. Aka revolution needs to put democracy first or risk going back to square one. If you read Animal Farm and think "the animals should have just happily put every ounce of their geist into working for the humans instead of rebelling" I have to ask: do you know what stockholm syndrome is? You better call the doctor because you seem to have it for the capital owning class. Thinking in simple black and white terms is a clear sign of mind control. |