From the comments that I received, it looks like people want me to do some book reviews.
I have not been able to read as much lately as I would like (school, work, Libby, and Xbox keep me pretty busy), but books are still one of my most favorite things in life.
I'm going to start off with a short list of books I've read in the last few months, then I'll list all the books that are on my list to read.
1. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Amazing book! Tolstoy has such a depth to his writing it is incredible. He explains every little detail every character is facing to the point where sometimes it starts getting boring, but you keep reading because you love being in the same place with Pierre, Prince Andrei, and Natasha. Because that is what his writing does is bring you into their world. You know exactly what is going on all time with everyone in such detail, it's impossible to explain or relate to someone else about. I would recommend this book to everyone, no matter what their reading level. It's not written at an advanced level, but can be confusing with all the attention to detail and the number of characters. It was a little difficult at first for me, but now it is refreshing to read and will be hard to go back to regular old novels.
2. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Very, very interesting book. Huxley separates himself from the typical "doomsday" authors like Orwell, and gives us a look into the future of what humans will do to have the "perfect society." Instead of the government taking control and regulating everything to how they like it and the rest of the population serves them (Sound like Congress to anyone? But I digress...), everyone is "programmed" before birth, while they are still embryos (everyone is born from a tube rather than by an actual mother), and are made into certain class or rank. The workers are naturally not as smart and are bred to work wherever they are needed (if they are needed to work someplace hot, they are made to adjust to and even like the heat before they are even born). The most impressive part of the story is how the different classes all love what they do because that is what they were made for. It starts getting interesting when a young man who was raised on an indian reservation (with no knowledge of the outside world) comes into contact with the world and tries to change it by himself.
3. Animal Farm - George Orwell
This book scares me everytime I read it. If you haven't read it, PLEASE READ IT!!1!oneone. All I'm going to say is that this book tells exactly what happens when the working class is ignorant: not only of what the government is doing, but of the past. Be an educated individual please!
Here are the books I'm either reading right now or are on my list to read or re-read (in no particular order). If you have any recommendations, please let me know!
1. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
2. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
3. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
4. The Devils - Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
6. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
7. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
8. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
9. The House of the Dead - Fyodor Dostoevsky
10. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
11. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
12. The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
13. How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
14. The Illiad - Homer
15. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
16. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
17. 1984 - George Orwell
18. The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis
19. Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
20. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
21. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
22. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
23. Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
24. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
25. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
26. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
So there you go! Hopefully I'll be able to read them all in my lifetime!!
