If you want to get into good rap I recommend Logic.

Like J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar, Logic's lyrics have the facade of gangster rap, yet if you start to dissect what he's says they allude to serious problems in the inner city. Not only does he appeal to entire social groups, much of what he raps about connects with regular teenagers as well.

3. Logic - Soul Food

Glad to hear how expansive the universe is. I read Ender's Game when I was in high school and I really hope Dune will grab me as much as that did. It's really interesting how many parallels to Native American genocide I'm picking up on as I rethink it's plot. I'm assuming Dune alludes to Oil production?

Hey crossstitch! Glad you like the list I put up! "Drown" definitely was an interesting read. I feel like Diaz puts a little bit of himself in every character he writes, not just the protagonist. I hadn't read anything that real since "Crank" by Ellen Hopkins. I just finished "Lolita" and it was one of the most interesting books I've read in a long time. Nabokov is a new favorite of mine. Message me if you want to discuss any of them!

I just picked up Dune from my dad who swears by how good the book is. I've tried reading it but it didn't really grab me. What're your thoughts on it?

I'm doing a summer book list with my girl friend who's in China right now. We each picked 5 books then conjointly chose 5 books to finish by August.

•Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan

•Drown - Junot Diaz

•Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

•Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

•Dracula - Bram Stoker

•Frankenstein - Mary Shelly

•Tom Jones - Henry Fielding

•Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes

•Metamorphoses - Franz Kafka

•Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley

•Fear and Trembling - Soren Kierkegaard

•Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Neitzsche

•Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

•Empire of Illusion - Chris Hedges

•[Undecided]

You can kind of see where out tastes begin to divulge. I prefer something more transcendental while she prefers something more visceral. I've been on an economics binge recently and have read 'Manufacturing Consent', 'Death of the Liberal Class', and Ludwig Von Mises' ' Planned Chaos' along with different Economics text books.

I highly recommend 'The Brother Karamazov' by Dostoevsky. It is what got me into existential thinking in the first place.