Dance Dance Dance

by 

Haruki Murakami

 
This story is one that makes me feel no anxiety about dying without writing my own book. It basically encapsulates me as i see myself. Read this in my mid twenties.

The Great Gatsby

Haven't read this since high school but this is the first book that I "read". This was the first book that I read on my own accord where I thought "this is actually not a story but this is real life."

The Idiot

by 

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Emotions captured in ways i see accurate.

The short story 

Three Thousand Dollars

by 

David Lipsky

. I no longer identify with this but there was a time where this was my bible.

Lines like this always get me:

In the fall he would carry a coffee from a nearby diner, 

I also believe that a large part of why I'm honing my writing is so that I can one day write long stories filled with such lines. It's kind of like that statement 

J.D. Salinger

made about how you become a writer once you can't find the things you want out of existing books. 

In a way I hit that point early... unlike most voracious readers who hit it later after having consumed so much stuff. I hit it early because I was the opposite of the achetypical voracious reader. I never liked books to begin with... and I got lucky in highschool by deciding to read 

The Catcher in the Rye

and 

The Great Gatsby

  and realizing... WOAH BOOKS CAN BE AWESOME... back then I thought media had to be fun.. I thought fun was the point. And of course I didn't think books were nearly as fun as video games or films. 

But those two books showed me that there is something greater than fun. Unfortunately I was bad at finding books so after those two I never became a heavy reader. I always wanted the same feeling I got from the two and never could out of just your average novel. 

Anyways wondering what your reader/writer journey has been like. What about you 

GabrielGreco

and 

dealingwith

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