5/10/2008 - Top 4 Recommended Books to Learn How to Invest in the Stock Market
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The highlight of the book is Atticus Finch shooting a rabid dog. I mean what's really classic about this thing?
The saddest part is what it did to poor Harper Lee. I'm convinced she too couldn't understand what the big hoopla was all about. That's why in all the ensuing years she couldn't bring herself to write anything else.
Instead read: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
If you like novels about the south, here's a true masterpiece. They don't get much better than this.
Extremely Overrated: Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Okay, I was wrong. THIS is the most boring book in American literature. At least Melville's contemporaries had the common sense to hate it when it was first published. It was not until academics 'rediscovered' it that it suddenly became a 'classic'.
Three quarters of this snoozer is Melville playing at being a poet. There are some exciting parts, but they're hopelessly buried endless verbiage.
Instead read: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Now this is a story. Enough said.
Extremely Overrated: War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
I'm firmly convinced the only reason anyone bother's with this thing is bragging rights. It takes a special kind of person to get through it. There are hundreds and hundreds of pages with hundreds and hundreds of characters, each more boring than the last. I did enjoy the setting, and the vivid descriptions of Napoleon's ill fated invasion of Russia. Besides that, if you haven't yet read this thing, don't feel bad. Skip it.
Instead read: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Now this is a true Russian masterpiece. This is Dostoevsky's last work and one of the best novels of all times. If you read no other literature, read this.
I could go on and on, but enough said. The moral here is simple. If you have yourself a list of 'classics' that you never got around to reading but always thought you should have, don't feel bad. No need to make time for them. You're not missing much.
Try some of these instead.
- "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. "
--Joseph Alexandrovitch Brodsky
- "Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- "Every burned book enlightens the world."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings."
--Heinrich Heine
- "To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves."
--Claude Adrien Helvetius, De l'Homme, Vol. I, sec. 4
- "Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education."
--Alfred Whitney Griswold, Essays on Education
- "Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble."
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