What are some of your favorites pieces of Literature?
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wow, really?!
yeah, Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis is probably in my top 3
Yeah, man. I hated the shyt they used to assign in school (besides lord of the flies, raisin in the sun....things like that). So as much as I read/have read....I've missed out on a lot of "classics".
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I can understand that
yeah, Lord of the Flies was another!
Well, that's what Cliff Notes are there for.
did you use Cliff Notes?
more than likely…there was cliff notes and another one I can’t remember that used to have dope summaries…it had a red cover I think
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whenever I was stuck in a jam or had only read half of what I should've read, Cliff Notes was my go to as well 
lol monarch notes was the other one
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Honestly? Captain Underpants. I could read those books forever! They take my imagination to a higher place.
i really like humor in books. i noticed that most of my favorite movies are pretty serious and sad while a lot of my favorite books are satires.
these ones are all pretty funny:
The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist
the Time Regulation Institute
Dead Souls (only the Guerney translation - this is pretty hard to read)
and then Life and Death are Wearing Me Out is the funniest book ive ever read. its about this chinese landowner who gets executed after the Communist Revolution. as punishment he keeps getting resurrected as animals in his old village.
and i have favorites that aren’t funny like Touba or the Meaning of Night, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, The Harder They Come (this is by far the best book based on a movie ever written), Spring Snow and Runaway Horses and The Blind Owl (trippy and disturbing af)
these ones are all pretty funny:
The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist
the Time Regulation Institute
Dead Souls (only the Guerney translation - this is pretty hard to read)
and then Life and Death are Wearing Me Out is the funniest book ive ever read. its about this chinese landowner who gets executed after the Communist Revolution. as punishment he keeps getting resurrected as animals in his old village.
and i have favorites that aren’t funny like Touba or the Meaning of Night, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, The Harder They Come (this is by far the best book based on a movie ever written), Spring Snow and Runaway Horses and The Blind Owl (trippy and disturbing af)
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-Under the feet of Jesus by Helena Viramontes (This is a very prominent book if you ever take Chicano Studies. If you ever go to ST John’s University and take CRT in humanities department it’s a mandatory book).
-How beautiful we were by Imbolue Mbue. Barack Obama recommended this book and I was looking for another black author. I’m happy I read this. It really gets into the corruption and difficulties that many west African children go through.
-Exit West by Moshin Hamad. This was another book Barack recommended and I loved it. This goes into a border less society while also challenging stereotypes of women in Muslim culture.
-Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
-If Beale street can talk by James Baldwin
-How beautiful we were by Imbolue Mbue. Barack Obama recommended this book and I was looking for another black author. I’m happy I read this. It really gets into the corruption and difficulties that many west African children go through.
-Exit West by Moshin Hamad. This was another book Barack recommended and I loved it. This goes into a border less society while also challenging stereotypes of women in Muslim culture.
-Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
-If Beale street can talk by James Baldwin
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I've missed days from work just because a book dropped. Thought the first book was kinda paint by numbers.
But good lord Fool Moon through Battle Ground
Great, great book
I love classic literature
Oh and Animal Farm like some said …
maybe one of the most relevant books ever written about the abuse of power …
I’m also a Sci Fi head
Anything by Assimov is also recommended
Compared to the book I hate it. And Robert Dinero just doesnt do it for me. Not that his acting wasnt on point. But I still see Robert Dinero and its distracting. Alot of these adaptions that Ive seen that want you to sympathize with the monster,arent bold enough to really make the monster look like a mess. Almost like they think the audience wont be able to sympathize with anything that looks worst than a burn victim
The monster should look unhuman in whatever real adaption they do.
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In no particular order, my favorite books are ones my hypothetical son will always have access to:
- Black Boy by Richard Wright
- Down these mean streets by Piri Thomas
- Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling
- A confederacy of dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- Before the Mayflower by Lerone Bennett
- Holes by Louis Sachar
- You Can't Win by Jack Black
- The Hobbit and the three LOTR books by JRR Tolkien