Reading time
Nov. 11th, 2008 03:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sevenjetcI couldn't sleep, so I finished reading of "Stranger in a Strange Land" and I don't understand why I haven't read it before. I like the way Heinlein's works make me think. It's liberating, witty way of thinking, and full of sarcasm and self-ridiculing. Live's a big joke. However, since I was eight when I've read "Friday", and I've read it at least ten times since them, it's no wonder I turned out so screwed up.
Well, the bad/good news is that I bought 4 Heinlein's books I haven't read yet at FFS. It's bad, because I should be reading "The Red Badge of Courage" and some more boring novels. Why the more is the book boring, the more probably it is going to become classic? I'm missing my Shakespeare, full of blood, sex and violence. Although, he really seriously lacks in spaceships. Good is that I have something to read that doesn't have to have "Star Trek" or "Doctor Who" in the title to catch my attention. Doctor Who is good, but it's more of a relaxation than of a thinking book. Turn of your brain, chill out, let the Doctor take you on an adventure.
Thinking books, however, aren't always the best idea. Toni Morrison usually makes me doubt the meaning of life. Heinlein makes me think about the insanity of religion, moral and social structure of human society, the whole system. He makes me an anarchistic freethinker in my mind, even when I usually follow the road of established rules and taboos.
I've been wondering how much I was influenced by the books I've been reading as a child. Because somehow the rules for society that I have in my mind, what is and isn't appropriate, seem to be a bit different from the standard. And I'm pretty sure my parents and grandparents didn't teach me that. Maybe they should have watch closely what I was reading. Maybe I should make a list of books unsuitable for children that I've read when I was under ten :D
Well, the bad/good news is that I bought 4 Heinlein's books I haven't read yet at FFS. It's bad, because I should be reading "The Red Badge of Courage" and some more boring novels. Why the more is the book boring, the more probably it is going to become classic? I'm missing my Shakespeare, full of blood, sex and violence. Although, he really seriously lacks in spaceships. Good is that I have something to read that doesn't have to have "Star Trek" or "Doctor Who" in the title to catch my attention. Doctor Who is good, but it's more of a relaxation than of a thinking book. Turn of your brain, chill out, let the Doctor take you on an adventure.
Thinking books, however, aren't always the best idea. Toni Morrison usually makes me doubt the meaning of life. Heinlein makes me think about the insanity of religion, moral and social structure of human society, the whole system. He makes me an anarchistic freethinker in my mind, even when I usually follow the road of established rules and taboos.
I've been wondering how much I was influenced by the books I've been reading as a child. Because somehow the rules for society that I have in my mind, what is and isn't appropriate, seem to be a bit different from the standard. And I'm pretty sure my parents and grandparents didn't teach me that. Maybe they should have watch closely what I was reading. Maybe I should make a list of books unsuitable for children that I've read when I was under ten :D
