I think I did my best reading in college. When the Legends Die by Hal Borland. Herman Hesse's Siddhartha. Evan Hunter's Sons. Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange (horrorshow, my droogs). Just a bunch of little gems, not well-known all that much (except I knew I liked Evan Hunter from reading my parents' Ed McBain books). And some well-known books, too, like William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist. And those were for fun that I plucked out from the library.
Heck, Now I kinda wish I could remember the required reading from back then. Oh, yeah - Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. Those were decent little stories. The Sun also Rises by Hemingway, which was a yawner, sorry. The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner, which was about 65% okay. Gulliver's Travels by Swift which, when you understand the satire behind it, was simply brilliant, especially A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhns.
I also listened to some Ravi Shankar while doing homework, and no, I wasn't doing drugs. Other big musical explosions: Tarkus by ELP, Grand Funk Railroad, Uriah Heep (which reminds me - A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens, and yes, I know Heep was in David Copperfield), King Crimson, Yes, and the Woodstock album. Metalhead by Deep Purple was out, and that was a great album.
(Excuse me while I stroll down memory lane.)
Heck, Now I kinda wish I could remember the required reading from back then. Oh, yeah - Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. Those were decent little stories. The Sun also Rises by Hemingway, which was a yawner, sorry. The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner, which was about 65% okay. Gulliver's Travels by Swift which, when you understand the satire behind it, was simply brilliant, especially A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhns.
I also listened to some Ravi Shankar while doing homework, and no, I wasn't doing drugs. Other big musical explosions: Tarkus by ELP, Grand Funk Railroad, Uriah Heep (which reminds me - A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens, and yes, I know Heep was in David Copperfield), King Crimson, Yes, and the Woodstock album. Metalhead by Deep Purple was out, and that was a great album.
(Excuse me while I stroll down memory lane.)