The thread all about good books

After Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and some of Joyce's books, I'm a little tentative on touching stream-of-consciousness again.

Stream-of-consciousness is amazing!

There's also The Keys to the Kingdom by Garth Nix, It's also enjoyable, they're a bit short and simple reads but quite interesting to see the many things Arthur has to accomplish.

I read up to Lady Friday, but I kind of forgot about these books. I thought they were interesting when I read them (Jr. high and early in high school).

Anyways, I am about halfway through Candide by Voltaire and it has a lot of powerful quotes. It is really, really good.

 Spoiler

Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent cosmic plan. Fast, funny, often outrageous, the French philosopher's immortal narrative takes Candide around the world to discover that -- contrary to the teachings of his distringuished tutor Dr. Pangloss -- all is not always for the best. Alive with wit, brilliance, and graceful storytelling, Candide has become Voltaire's most celebrated work.