<p>You might want to try Oscar Wilde.</p>
<p>^^^^^^^yehhh</p>
<p>I’d much rather go for short stories. My personal favorites are from O Henry, Dahl, and Poe (just a bit). Right now i’m reading the dubliners by joyce (even though I’m supposed to be researching for debate, writing essays, practicing violin, self-studying, bunch of other stuff). I like it. </p>
<p>If you really want to revive (or just gain) your intellectual vitality, read moby dick. I dare you.</p>
<p>I’m with the idea that reading doesn’t have to come from books. For a host of reasons, I’ve had minimal reading (as if you couldn’t already tell from my posts, check the “previous”), and it’s even worse for books.</p>
<p>Now this late that I’ve realized somewhat the pseudo-importance of reading, I only read articles occasionally about subjects that interest me, such as sports, gaming, and occasionally science. I find that it’s easier to concentrate for like, 5 minutes rather than god-knows-how-long. It’s shorter, quicker, more…modern, per se, and actually helps more.</p>
<p>I read like 4~5-ish articles a week, and it’s not a pain either because it’s on subjects I enjoy. That’s…the extent of my reading, unfortunately, unless you count the forums I go on such as these. I don’t read books.</p>
<p>I really liked Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code. They’re both excellent books and I think the former is having a movie made for it.</p>
<p>I’m really loving Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.</p>
<p>Fluffy1 just gave me an idea with the short story thing. i’m sure many people have read it for a satire unit in school like i did…A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift anyone? it’s short and probably on the internet somewhere. that’s one you won’t be able to stop reading. i read it, completely horrified, before i remembered it was indeed a satire haha.</p>
<p>lol no Perks is just one of those books that holds you from the opening lines and has one of those crazy great emotional endings that ppl just love. Check of Drown by junot diaz, its a bunch of short stories. His “The Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” is also great (it has footnotes, but most are pretty funny). Read Perks though. Great story line from start to end.</p>