"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book." - Stephan Mallarme
I can't decide what I should read first once I finish my summer reading, so I would like some input. It would be really helpful if you all could look at the following options that I'm considering, and let me know what you think sounds good. If you could rank them in order of most interesting to least interesting, that'd be rad.
a) The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
b) Death of a Salesmen by Arthur Miller
c) The Grass Harp by Truman Capote
d) Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
Thanks to anyone who takes a little time to do this for me. You all know how indecisive I am haha.
Love, Sarah
EDIT: I decided to just read The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster since it was just poetry. Here's possibly one of my favorites in the entire world. Enjoy.
It's Raining In Love by Richard Brautigan
I don't know what it is,
but I distrust myself
when I start to like a girl
a lot.
It makes me nervous.
I don't say the right things
or perhaps I start
to examine,
evaluate,
compute
what I am saying.
If I say, "Do you think it's going to rain?"
and she says, "I don't know,"
I start thinking : Does she really like me?
In other words
I get a little creepy.
A friend of mine once said,
"It's twenty times better to be friends
with someone
than it is to be in love with them."
I think he's right and besides,
it's raining somewhere, programming flowers
and keeping snails happy.
That's all taken care of.
BUT
if a girl likes me a lot
and starts getting real nervous
and suddenly begins asking me funny questions
and looks sad if I give the wrong answers
and she says things like,
"Do you think it's going to rain?"
and I say, "It beats me,"
and she says, "Oh,"
and looks a little sad
at the clear blue California sky,
I think : Thank God, it's you, baby, this time
instead of me.