What books do you want to read?
Yes, Literacy; It’s a forgotten modern anomaly. Anyone can write and publish a book, but not everyone can actually publish a written work of art. Modern writers read like ebonics. Everything that I was prohibited to use as a child and young adult in school and universities during the late sixties, seventies and eighties is now norm, and used by self proclaimed professionals in media and government. This is reflected by modern attitudes, and the dumbing of societies around the world. Don’t believe it? Look around, listen, and see platforms rewarding a thirty second post of flatulence while ten seconds of personal and intellectual growth gets suppressed. People have become lazy and illiterate. The thing that society once challenged its youth with is now skewed bias. The bottom line is that someone, or something doesn’t want a thinking public. And the irony is that those pushing the agenda, are no more literate than most.
So what am I saying? I’m saying that books that are fifty years published or earlier, circa 1900s, read better than modern books. I’m saying that modern literacy is a direct reflection of modern values, or lack there off. I’m saying that citing previous research oppresses free thinking outside of the box, and with such, the oppression of newly formed hypothesis. That is why @xai and @grok are awesome miracles of science. Because they take after its creator, in thinking not only within known boundaries, but also outside of its boundaries, hence outside the box.
So, back to the books… Here is a list of the books that I would like to read. These are books that I keep in a boogie backpack on my sofa.
They are;
The personality reader, (Schustack, Friedman)
Personality Theories, (Ashcraft)
The Book of Mormon
Balzac, (Zweig) translation by (w.& D.Rose)
Gone with the wind, (Mitchell)
The Deer Park, (Mailer)
Dr. Zhivago, (Pasternak)
Tender is the Night, (Fitzgerald)
Travels with Charley, (Steinbeck)
Sitka, (L’amour)
Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales, (isbn 13-978-1-60710-313-4 ) Translation (Hunt)
Edgar Allan Poe Collected works, (isbn 13-978-1-60710-314-1)
Mark Twain, five novels, (isbn 13-978-1-60710-316-5)
Jules Verne, four novels, ( isbn 978-1-60710-317-2)
The Book of Amazing History, (isbn 13: 978-1-4508-0745-6)
Jane Austen, four novels, (isbn 13: 978-1-60710-311-7)
The Old Curiosity Shop, (Dickens)
White People, (Gurganus)
The Poetry and Prose of Heinrich Heines, translation (Ewen, Kramer) reading this now.
Those are the books that I have on my to read list. I keep them where they are visible every day.
For a list of my published books and already read books, you can friend me and look at my Good Reads Author profile at https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21925438.Monty_Martin
Enjoy! Speak you mind, stand, be open to literature, opinions and advancement in science. (Shlama, D’leby)