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I just re-read 1984 recently for lack of library books. I was so addicted, I think I read it in a day or two. I got so much more out of it this time.
I believe in re-reading a lot, especially books you read as a young adult/in college. Reading them as an older adult makes me appreciate them so much and I can really relate to the ideas. Sometimes I feel we ask too much of our high school kids to read "the classics' because they will not have the life experiences to understand them properly.
Gypsy, I wish you lived near me. I would keep you in books. I have so many and I give them away constantly. I am always ordering books (I'm ordering a lot from Amazon today.) I try to justify it to myself, telling myself that it's my birthday, and these books are a gift to myself! I stop by the library all the time and get books, and I go to new and used book stores, and library sales. I need help! I have tons of books that I haven't read, and continue to buy more!
Gypsy, I wish you lived near me. I would keep you in books. I have so many and I give them away constantly. I am always ordering books (I'm ordering a lot from Amazon today.) I try to justify it to myself, telling myself that it's my birthday, and these books are a gift to myself! I stop by the library all the time and get books, and I go to new and used book stores, and library sales. I need help! I have tons of books that I haven't read, and continue to buy more!
I'll send you my address...
When we were young and broke(er), my wife and I knew we needed to stay out of bookstores...
I actually had to stop reading this book for a few days halfway through because it was so shocking to my conscience. It has permanently changed the way I view humanity.
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
Gayle Dean Wardlow, Chasin' That Devil Music: Searching for the Blues
Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
Albert Jay Nock, The Memoirs of a Superfluous Man
Fred Allen, Treadmill to Oblivion
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago (all three volumes)
James Bovard, "feeling your pain": The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years and Freedom in Chains
Richard Newhafer, The Last Tallyho
P.J. O'Rourke, Driving Us Crazy
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