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THE WORD OF MOUTH
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„Be not content - A subterranean journal“ is pretty eternal for me. So is „On the road“. Or take „Middlesex“. Why, they tell the story about a different life. If you want to spend the rest of your life miserable then „Im Westen nichts Neues“ (All quiet on the western front). Love those Ask HN lists, btw!!
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Read good fiction. Jack Kerouac - On The Road Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five Charles Bukowski - Post Office
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Jewish Wisdom for Business Success, Dune, Shoe Dog, On The Road
I read The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed at the beginning of the year, just before she passed away. This summer I the first four books of the Earthsea series and will probably read The Other Wind and Tales soon. I've really enjoyed both universes--with Earthsea I keep wishing someone would make a game with this kind of magic system. The Lathe of Heaven is such a wonderful title, I'm looking forward to reading that as well. I read her translation of Tao Te Ching while waiting in 2 hours of traffic for a ferry and it was wonderful and really informs the rest of her works. I'm currently reading Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner, on the history of U.S. water policy in the West. Frustratingly dry. Also re-reading On the Road but unlike 16 years ago I'm reading the 'Original Scroll Edition' this time: no chapters, paragraph breaks, invented character names, censors, etc. The book you read in high school is, in fact, the novelization of the original, which Kerouac wrote in twenty days. I've kept my beat-up paperback copy of the 'novel' nearby and I've preferred the scroll edition for the most part. On the nightstand:…
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Worth mentioning: 1. Ready Player One 2. On The Road (re-read)
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On the Road by Jack Kerouac. I read it at 18 and I wish I had read it way earlier. It taught me to be mad, to live life, to get out and see the world. But looking back at it, it also taught me how to be responsible and how to not to be a jerk. It, above all, showed me what beautiful writing is.
On The Road - Jack Kerouac. How to live in the present moment and have a voracious appetite for travel and new experiences.