[mikech]

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- Appeal to a young man. Last year I read Pride and Prejudice in the metro, and while I enjoyed it in a good literature kind of way, I'd prefer something that's easier to identify with.

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hey herm, have you thought about reading any poetry? i think the Romantics would especially resonate with young men, given that many of them never lived past 30 or so themselves. keats, shelley, byron, also blake and early wordsworth: it's almost difficult not to love them.

i would also recommend some Modern poets, starting with whitman, as well as some great non-english poets like mayakovsky, rilke, and rimbaud. these were the writers who most spoke to me in my early-20s.