2 months without any posts in this thread? What's happening Slap?
Since my last post in this thread, here is what I've been reading (wow, it took me 10 months to read 7 books).
First, it was some Dickens. Oliver Twist and then Great Expectations. It seems like everyone reads these in school. But I didn't. I think I read Christmas Carol and that is it. They were alright. Kind of slow going for me. You know how when you have a good book and you look forward to reading it? These were the opposite. I'd read only a few pages at a time, it seemed.
Next up, a couple more by Nabokov (thanks again oyolar): Pnin (funny, silly) and The Defense. I really liked The Defense and would recommend it. My favorite of the 4 novels by him I've read to date. Makes you question which is better: to live a life with a passion, even if that passion drives you insane. Or a boring, sane life. Being pretty obsessed with skating, I know which I choose.
After that I read Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Holy shit, slavery was fucked. Crazy to think it wasn't even that long ago. Really shows the natural instinct of man is to learn and continue to better oneself. And he mostly credits it to reading. And just look at how few people read nowadays. I don't have any friends in real life to talk to about books. Just this thread.
I picked up The Wayward Bus by Steinbeck next. Really enjoyed this one. He is such a great writer. I know we had to read a couple of his books in high school. But I don't think I've read any since. That will definitely change from now on. I plan to check out all his writing.
Then, I'm currently about 2/3 of the way through The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon. At first I felt really lost in it. Now it's starting to all come together. I noticed some link to notes about this posted a couple pages back in this thread. I'll probably check that out after I finish the book and see what I missed.
Happy 2016 y'all.