Mediocracy

I am so tired of reading. And when i saw reading I mean reading chapter after chapter on the newest and greatest business practice. Or reading that new book my boss purchased that talkes about how to seperate wants and needs and find benifits.

All of these books are important, the educate me on how to better do my job, how to become one step closer to ruling the world.

But they give me no satisfaction. It is studying rather than reading. And it causes other strife. Instead of finding a truly fascinating and meaningful book to read in the little spare time I own I look for a quick and dirty read that will satisfy (even if only momentairly) my need to read.

I want to read some of the greats. I have never read Catcher in the Rye or 1984. Some how I missed out on those books in highschool. That isn't to say I didn't read some of the greats (or no so greats depending on your outlook). Off the top of my head here is what I remember reading in highschool. I took advance English classes so I may have skipped what others read.

Grapes of Wrath
Romeo and Juliet
King Lear
Othello
Hamlet
Jane Eyre
Portriat of an Artist as a Young Man
The Scarlett Letter
The Great Gatsby
Wuthering Heights
Return of the Naive
Crime and Punishment
Metamorphisis
Of Mice and Men
The Odyssey
A Tale of Two Cities
The Glass Managerie
Madame Bovary
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Call of The Wild
The Old Man and The Sea
The Red Badge of Courage
The Sound and The Fury
There Eyes Were Watching God
To Kill A Mockingbird
Uncle Toms Cabin

That's all I can think of. And it's a lot. There were years after highschool where I refused to pick up a book that would take more than just mear reading. But no I long for it. I am not going to jump right in and get War and Peace. But maybe it's time to visit some of the classic I missed.