There was me, that was Alex.

"A Clockwork Orange"
Anthony Burgess


"There was a medical book that I took down, but when I opened it it was full of drawings and photographs of horrible wounds and diseases, and that made me want to sick just a bit. So I put that down and then took down the big book or Bible, as it was called, thinking that might give me comfort as it had done in the old Staja days (not so old really, but it seemed a very very long time ago), and I staggered over to a chair to read in it. But all I found was about smiting seventy times seven...So then I near cried."

A book can provide you not only a hobby or an experience. But its very presence can question and confront your beliefs and way of life as if a complete character or human itself. I've never read a book like A Clockwork Orange before in my life, and I will never read a book like it again. Its confusion, reality, struggle, forced me to look at my own life, my own vices, my own inclinations and dependencies, and confront my Alex.

.Musts.

The Prince of Tides(Pat Conroy)
-"I did not yet have the interior resources to dream new dreams, I was far too busy mourning the death of the old ones and wondering how I was going to survive without them."

The Catcher in the Rye(J.D. Salinger)
-"All these angels start coming out of the boxes and everywhere, guys carrying crucifixes adn stuff all over the place, and the whole bunch of them - thousands of them - singing "Come All ye Faithful" like mad. Big deal. It's supposed to be religious as hell, I know, and very pretty and all, but I can't see anything religious or pretty, for God's sake, about a bunch of actors carrying crucifixes all over the stage. When they all finished adn started going out the boxes again, you could tell they could hardly wait to get a cigarette of something. I saw it with old Sally Hayes the year before, and she kept saying how beautiful it was, the costumes and all. I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it."

The Perks of Being a Wallflower(Stephen Chbosky)
-"We accept the love we think we deserve"
-"I feel infinite"

Scartissue(Anthony Kiedis)