03-23-2017, 11:04 PM
Shouten Wrote:My mind and interests are scattered, tbh. I jump from "1984" to "Catch 22" xD That's what I like. "Catcher in the Rye", "King Rat", "East of Eden"... Pretty diffrent books, imo, and I like them all so much. I want to read books like these, you know, as people say - Life changing. Thought provoking. Problem is, that english is my second language and I have some problems understanding some of the books xD
P.S. I have Sōseki on my "to read" list
I have read Soseki's Kokoro, and I liked it. It was a well above average book. But it wasn't so much in the story as in its writing style and presentation where its value lay. Soseki is a poet.
Of Japanese lit, I'd also recommend to check out Kenzaburo Oe's The Silent Cry. I loved it. It's really different and, again, not about story so much, but about the development and involvement of the psychological and emotional perspective.
I could recommend a dozen more books, but they're not fiction, but science/gay-themed/history/poetry/classics/etc.
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