How sad it is to grow up

ZEK? Oleg Navalny - about popular physics, American classics and deceptive entertainment of names, which mention the female gender

I read selflessly. This is the first thing that comes to mind if you answer the question "How do I read?" At times, it seems to me that my whole life has turned into continuous reading. I read novels, novels, stories, essays, and even periodic print publications, such as, for example, the magazine “The World of Crime” and the newspaper “Kazyna House”, and completely. From the “Culture” section of the Vedomosti newspaper, I can find out that the film “Tony Erdmann” Maren Ada is a very funny comedy (in fact - no), and from the newspaper “New Life” of the Uritsky district of the Oryol region - about how many bags of potatoes can be exchanged for a female jacket (one). I began to catch myself on the fact that I read the labels of consumer goods. Sometimes it turns out that I use them incorrectly, and sometimes - that in vain (are I?).

I try to read books a few at a time. So much more fun, and this allows you to “switch from channel to channel” when the narrative is bored. In addition, this makes dreams more saturated. In the kingdom of Morpheus, a hippie detective may try to arrest a red displacement (optical phenomenon, a possible expression of the Doppler effect.-NT), and sometimes an old Doppler, and an infernal psychoanalyst cat explains why they have no place here.

In the afternoon I read, sitting with my back to the west, at night - lying my head to the east. This position of the body is dictated by light sources (window and nightlight, respectively). In a schizo, I read, sitting or lying on the floor (everything else is embedded in the walls). I prefer to read with the battery at the side. In winter, saving heat from her, in the summer - a reviving cold. I recently learned about the 12 Steps program and read only 200 pages a day, but before it was at least 500! I am struggling with addiction, reducing the dose.

At the moment, I read the “internal vice” of Thomas Pincon, “think slowly ... decide quickly” by Daniel Kaneman, “what is life from the point of view of physics” Erwin Schrödinger, “women” by Mikhail Zhvanetsky, as well as “Harry Potter and Methods of Rational Thinking” by Elizer Yudkovsky as the chapters from a friend in correspondence. There is no system or reason why these books are. The most stupid book that I happened to read is Mary Elis Monroe's Summer Girls. An enthusiastic name for the prisoner is a name, but a more stupid plot and a disgusting language is hard to imagine. The most disappointing books from the point of view of the correlation of the declared cultural value and real impressions after reading are Ben-Gur Lew Wallace and the Heifer. The story of fake love ”Sergei Minaev .

Here are the books that I would advise everyone to read:

"Lavr" Evgenia Vodolazkin . As a person, a deeply religious man, this novel seemed to me the best book about faith.

“Source” Ain Rand is a book about the same thing, about which the famous novel “Atlant spread his shoulders”, but it was written better.

"Clothing Orange" Anthony Burdes . This is Vostorg, but it may seem to someone that there is too much about violence. In fact, there is about how to grow sad.

Any book of Kormak McCarthy . And the plot and the language in them are beautiful.

"A house in which ..." Mariam Petrosyan . This is a book of those that you regret that they are over. I generally get so that good books are almost all that I read in IR. Bad are very rare. This is probably because I read mainly on the recommendations of good people.

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