Wise blood
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Read on Hacker News…n of not knowing how to read and the relief when my mother taught me. I was five, and I just haven't stopped reading since. I'll be 38 in a couple of months. I'm reading Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor, because O'Connor is wicked and funny. Favorite book? As others have pointed out, this is a ridiculous question -- my favorite kind! Some books I love: Lolita , As I Lay Dying , The Ghost Writer , Goodbye, Columbus , Blood Meridian , Anna Karenina , Where I'm Calling From , Huck Finn , Dubliners and on and on. I read mostly literary novels, but I read fairly widely -- genre stuff (skiffy, crime), history, philosophy, pop science, whatever's good. I average around 1 book per week, but I read in jags and sometimes go a couple of weeks without reading anything but blogs and news. I'm sure there are any number of studies that will show the bene…
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