smnthmrswny

being eighteen and stuck in the suburbs surrounding philadelphia, pennsylvania has its pros and cons. i like to think that the pros outweigh the cons, but it is growing increasingly evident that just is not the case.

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Oh, a sleeping drunkard
Up in Central Park,
And a lion-hunter
In the jungle dark,
And a Chinese dentist,
And a British queen—
All fit together
In the same machine.
Nice, nice, very nice;
Nice, nice, very nice;
Nice, nice, very nice—
So many different people
In the same device.

kurt vonnegut - the fifty-third calypso

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life’s library

the first of many, many lists. the bolded books are the ones i’m most enthusiastic about, the ones that i have to read as soon as possible.

animal farm - george orwell (again.)
catch-22 - joeseph heller
a clockwork orange - anthony burgess
the grapes of wrath - john steinbeck
invisible man - ralph ellison
lolita - vladimir nabokov
lord of the flies - william golding (also, again.)
naked lunch - william burroughs
1984 - george orwell
one flew over the cuckoo’s nest - ken kesey
a tale of two cities - charles dickenson
the curious incident of the dog in the night-time - mark haddon
life of pi - yann martel
the virgin suicides - jeffery eugenides
american psycho - bret easton ellis
less than zero - bret easton ellis
rules of attraction - bret easton ellis
the electric kool-aid acid test - tom wolfe
siddhartha - herman hesse
monsters under your head - chad sugg
waking up in black and white - chad sugg
the trial - franz kafka
moby dick - herman melville
the canterbury tales - geoffery chaucer
alice’s adventures in wonderland - lewis carroll (as much as i detest how hip alice and wonderland has become..)
the god delusion - richard dawkins
on the road - jack kerouac
paper town - john green
pieces - stephen chbosky
…or not to be: a collection of suicide notes - marc etkind
it’s kind of a funny story - ned vizzini
a million little pieces - james frey
fight club - chuck palahniuk
survivor - chuck palahniuk
choke - chuck palahniuk
lullaby - chuck palahniuk
snuff - chuck palahniuk
pygmy - chuck palahniuk
tell-all - chuck palahniuk (..can you tell that i really like chuck palahniuk?)
stranger than fiction: true stories - chuck palahniuk
player piano - kurt vonnegut
the sirens of titan - kurt vonnegut
god bless you, mr. rosewater - kurt vonnegut
breakfast of champions - kurt vonnegut
slapstick - kurt vonnegut
jailbird - kurt vonnegut
deadeye dick - kurt vonnegut
galapagos - kurt vonnegut
… fuck it, every kurt vonnegut novel/essay collection besides cat’s cradle, slaughter-house five, mother night, and god bless you, dr. kevorkian.
steppenwolf - hermann hesse

to be continued? (i promise not to die whilst driving while intoxicated.)

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day one - your favourite book.

this is a difficult one, but i’m probably going to have to be cliche and say
the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky.

i was sixteen when i first read it, and it changed my outlook on basically everything.

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♥ i'm giving this a go.

Day 01-Your favorite Book

Day 02-Least Favorite Book

Day 03-A Book that completely surprised you (bad/good)

Day 04- A Book that reminds you of home

Day 05- A Non-fiction book that you actually enjoyed

Day 06- A Book that makes you cry

Day 07- A Book that’s hard to read

Day 08- An unpopular…

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this is not for you

but all house of leaves references aside, this is for me. i need to be organized, and i have a lot of things to organize.
first and foremost, BOOKS. books, novels, novellas, compilations of short stories, poetry collections. anything that i can get my hands on and read. i’ve become obsessed. so, i’m making a list, or two or three or four, and then having a date with my local library.

of course, i have other things to organize, but books are the most important right now.