Ay comrades,

I’ve pretty much stopped reading non-political or history related books some years ago, because I felt the need to really spend time on my political education. However, I realized something’s been missing because of it. The mind just becomes so dry, factual and scientific without those more creative works. I used to love reading the classics, just art to expand the mind and I’m curious what you guys can recommend to that effect or what you’re currently reading.

Back then I loved me some Kafka, Hemmingway, Camus, Vonnegut, Kerouac and Jack London among others.

On the Road influenced me immensely back when I first read it, no other single work had that much of an impact since and I’m kinda looking for something to spark that creative flame again as much as that book did back then. I thought maybe some Hunter S Thompson, but dunno right now

  • @PolandIsAStateOfMind
    link
    42 years ago

    Try “The Good Soldier Švejk” by Jaroslav Hašek if you still haven’t - it’s great.

  • Muad'DibberA
    link
    12 years ago

    On the road was really entertaining, i liked it a lot. But I recently tried reading some other beat generation “classics”, naked lunch, and ham on rye, and they were either boring or overly edgy with nothing below the surface.

    Just to name two books i love: philip k dick - the three stigmata of palmer eldritch, and heller - catch 22. Def give them a read if you want to spark some creativity.