There have been multiple times that I have stated that I love to read. It started when I was very young and continues now. Seeing that a lot of kids today, along with their parents don't even try to own a book, I cherish it. Buying books may have even become a habit that I cannot break. One of the dreams of having my own house one day along with the big kitchen is to have an extensive library filled with all kinds of books. As I've gotten older and less militant, I have come to appreciate all forms of literature, and not just the familiar Black subjects that once dominated my shelves no matter what the subject. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one that didn't read the required books in high school. Back then it didn't seem very interesting, and none of us probably wanted anything to do with stories we were forced to read. But with the help of a friend that's also a High School English teacher, I have become more appreciative of the classics, and thanks to my favorite bookstore, Barnes & Noble I have been buying all kinds of literature and going back to really read what I was supposed to have done years ago. So forget summer reading, I keep it going on year round.
Right now I'm reading Edgar Allen Poe, and so far so good.
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The classics are DISTURBING lol
How brilliant must u be... to write books that touch people years... decades, centuries after you're gone ?
reading is such a selsfish pleasure of this life... can't count the number of times i let my partner fall asleep and didn't pay attention to his sexy little games because i was too busy sharing the pain of some black ink protagonist.
It's okay to be a literal geek - I'm one too!
As a Baltimorean, Poe was literally shoved down my throat as a kid.
He's a very strange and troubled man. Born in Boston, briefly attended UVa before being kicked out due to various vices, lived and worked in Philly and New York, married his 13 year-old cousin, moved to Baltimore, wrote the Raven and died of either cholera or drug use or alcohol abuse or rabies. No one really knows.
If you're in Baltimore on Halloween, his grave site on Fayette Street becomes this huge tourist attraction. There are tours of the Poe house too.
Its particularly bazaar because all this takes place in the middle of the downtown Baltimore University of Maryland campus. He's literally buried in front of the UM Law School.
@ Soldier - Yeah they can be a bit disturbing, but those time periods were pretty disturbing as well. And I love selfish pleasures, lol
@ darius - glad to be in good company
@ mrjones - I was told recently from a friend that he was either from/lived in Bmore, so I can imagine he was taught a lot out here. He was/is a strange phenomenon, let's just say he died of all those things, keeps it interesting!
I should do that for Halloween
Picture me in a graveyard on Halloween, can we say scurry bitch, lol
Wow, youre a bold, yet good man for reading Poe. I love books too, but currently Im still somewhat stuck in my own ways with keeping to literature, in all forms, by black composers. But im sure its only a matter of time, before i realize what great works im missing. Great post.
alright, let's here it for all our Literal Geeks! i was a very militant brother in high school after reading 'The Autobiography of Malcolm '. it took years for me to put down the angry black lit to look at other subjects. i'm glad i did, but i still love my original inspirations.
@ so fa real - Thank you, it's good to go outside your comfort zone
@ black guy - I still buy buy militant books too, u are def. not alone.
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