Not well, actually. I’ve been reeallly busy doing…important stuff (Joshua Jackson’s filmography, I see you). Slash I have a court date in the morning (long story). Let’s just hope I don’t end up being that really annoying kid on “Scared Straight”. Oh God, to still be a minor…but Ima start tomorrow when I get back to my mom’s house. I am so eager to get my hands on some Dostoevsky. Fo realsies.
I love tweed.
Seriously, that’s the one thing you need to know about me as an individual. I love me some goddamn tweed. So, in my quest to became the most erudite mofo this side of the Sistine Chapel, I’ve decided to spend the remainder of this summer, the last one before I start college, reading some books I sorta meant to peruse sometime kinda but never actually got around to finishing this sentence. Anyway. I’m probably gonna try too hard and curse too much or not enough or be too opinionated for your liking, but frankly, my dears, I don’t give a damn. This is for me, so that I actually might be shamed into following through on something important to me, and the rest of you freeloaders can either get with it or stick it where the sun don’t shine.
That being said, here it is…
* THE LIST *
The Brothers Karamazov – Dostoevsky
Critique of Pure Reason – Kant
The Metamorphosis – Kafka
War and Peace – Tolstoy
Hamlet – The Baaard
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert M. Pirsig
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
Native Son – Richard Wright
What is the What – Dave Eggers
Light in August – Faulkner
A Moveable Feast – Hemingway
The Inferno – Dante
Sons and Lovers – Lawrence
The Republic – Plato
The Communist Manifesto – Marx
Beyond Good and Evil – Nietszche
Lolita – Nabokov
The Sound and the Fury – Faulkner
Great Expectations – Dickens
Middlemarch – George Elliot
The General in his Labyrinth – Marquez
Paradise Lost – Milton
Dubliners – Joyce
Civilization and its Discontents – Siggy Frood
Suggestions are welcome, but I only have until August 28th, so don’t go on some crazy book-recommending bender. Slash I may not listen to you. Slash if you suggest Ayn Rand I will personally hunt you down and break a fountain over your head.
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