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As I will have more free time in a couple of weeks, I want recommendations what I should read for the few lazy weeks of summer I'll have. It should be something you've read, obviously. Something that's stuck with you. Tell me why I should read it.
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Hell's Angels by Hunter S Thompson is an in-depth look at the motorcycle gang of the same name with great side portraits of California in the early to mid sixties. Written pre-Fear and Loathing, so it's actually coherent.
Anything by Nick Hornby. I assume everyone's read High Fidelity, but if you haven't, you really really should. About a Boy is also really good.
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner is a great, relatively unknown Scottish novel. The main character is in some ways a female version of Mersault from Camus' The Stranger, but in modern-day Scotland. It's kind of fucked-up in parts, but I think both the linguist and the raver in you would enjoy reading it.
I freaking love Ray Bradbury's short stories, so I have to recommend them. The Golden Apples of the Sun and other stories is a good collection.
If you don't mind vulgarity (sex, violence, drugs, fucked up people doing fucked up shit), I would recommend Morvern Callar. If not, go with a Nick Hornby novel. And if you want nonfiction, Hell's Angels is your best bet (although the vulgarity caveat applies here to).
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