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I wonder if I'm alone in trying to read mostly good old literature instead of recent utility works? These days I read Jules Michelet and it is a pleasure for th
by gbog 13y ago
I wonder if I'm alone in trying to read mostly good old literature instead of recent utility works? These days I read Jules Michelet and it is a pleasure for the eyes and the brain.
- e12e 13y agoI try to read a bit of everything. My current long term project is "Paradise Lost" (so far I've read it by bits over the past year or so -- still not half way through). Lately I've also finished "Voices" by Ursula Le Guin (recommended), "The Steel Remains" by Richard Morgan (ok), "The Unberable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera (very good, and also very relevant right now) and I'm reading "From the Dust Returned" by Ray Bradburry (so far great).
- irahul 13y ago"real books, utility books, classics"...Really? Again? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4527506 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4527506
- mindcrime 13y agoI try to mix it up now and then. I usually go for at least one "classic" a year, although I don't think I finished one last year. I started Crime and Punishment but set it aside and never finished it. Somewhere around here there is also a copy of Madame Bovary that's half read, that I need to revisit at some point. That said, last year, my big thing - outside of "utility" books, were books on running and bike racing. I read things like Running Through The Wall, Born To Run, Slaying The Badger, Running on Empty, Racing Through The Dark, Eat & Run, The Belgian Hammer, Run!, It's Not Just About The Bike and The Secret Race. Fascinating stuff, for anyone who is interested in either running or bicycle racing.