Book series

I think I want to write about and share some of the books I've read and am reading. I got into reading a bit late and started really enjoying it for recreational purposes only after University. It's unfortunate that in high school I was forced to read books I didn't like, but that's a whole other blog post. I think it deterred me from enjoying reading.

Anyways. I'm not going to go into any deep analysis into each book I read but I'm merely going to share with you some titles for you to at least check out. And if one of you go out and grab a book I recommend, well then that will make my day.

I completed one of my most recent new years goals of finishing an entire novel from start to finish when I read George Orwell's 1984. And I have to say I enjoyed Animal Farm much more. 1984 is obviously a very dark novel. And so I think there was nothing about it I liked. I appreciate the kind of dark future that Orwell was trying to portray but I wished the ending would reach a more exciting climax.

So when deciding what to read next I started to have faint thoughts about trying another Ayn Rand book. Rand is the author of Atlas Shrugged which is a good nine-hundred pages long. This book was good indeed. However to finish a book of this magnitude you have to almost make a personal investment; of your time, your patience and your tolerance. There is an entire chapter in the book of the author using a character as a sort of self-narrative. And that isn't easy to endure.

So the book I'm reading now is called Fountainhead by Rand. It's another nine-hundred pages that I have a feeling I'm going to really enjoy. If you haven't tried Ayn Rand I say you give her a go.

I'll talk to you a few chapters from now.