I'm working at the
psychological rehabilitation place I worked at a year ago. It's a well paying job, so I have some money to spend. I went to Indigo and bought some novels, mostly classics:
1. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (Trying it out because you mentioned it Hilary)
2. Slaughter House Five (I've liked some of his other works)
3. The Alchemist (Okay, don't laugh. I got this book because one of the models in the
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition said how she couldn't put the book down. She was really hot okay?)
4. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (Supposed to be suspenseful and sardonic)
5. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Interesting take on love right?)
6. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller ("...a microcosm of the twentieth-century world as it might look to someone dangerously sane.")
It might, at first, seem like I spent a ridiculous amount of money on these books, but I had 60 dollars in gift certificates and I also got their i-rewards card. And I really needed to get all these books. These days I can't stand reading one book at a time, I have literary-ADHD or something. I have one book in my car that I read when I'm stuck in really bad traffic or have to wait, sitting in my car, for someone. I have another book that I read by my bedside. Finally, I take a book with me on the go.
Naked Lunch = Car Book (the writing is so disjointed and fragmented, reading it at un-orderly moments won't matter much)
Slaughterhouse Five - Take with me book (usually I take the one I can't stop reading with me)
The Alchemist - Bed Book (easy light reading to fall asleep to)
