Thank you for the detailed reply B.
I've actually read 3 or 4 of them on your list.
Our tastes differ, but that's cool. We're both bookish, that is the main thing🙏🏻.
You've probably seen one of my most recent notes, "The Fourth Turning Is Here" has absolutely had the biggest impact on my life, that's for sure, not for it's writing brilliance, more for it's content. It frightened me most awfully and genuinely changed my outlook on life.
Shakespeare has me puzzled, he was obviously and still is one of the greatest authors of all time, I'm a simpleton though, in that respect, and I don't mind admitting so, I find him unfathomable🤷🏻♂️ (Without supplementary notes, or an English tutor😂).
One book that did make me cry was "In Harms Way" by Doug Stanhope😭. It's regarding the USS Indianapolis, which was sunk during WWII. It was the ship that actually dropped off the nuclear bomb to Tinian Island, that was then later dropped on Hiroshima. It's a fucking harrowing tale. Many survivors, eaten by sharks, over a number of weeks in The Pacific Ocean before the few survivors were rescued🫤.
My bag, as noted is facts and figures, so, lots of reference books. Also, biographies, autobiographies, tomes about real life spies (Missed my calling there, I wanted to be James Bond😌😂). Politics, History, economics, current affairs and well.....Drugs🤷🏻♂️, i have an unhealthy number of drugs, sorry, books, on the subject😬😂.
We're all different though and that's only to be expected. Reading is good, on the whole, as long as it's not some shit rag newspaper🥳.