I generally read mostly sci-fi. I've read a little bit of the classics — the parts of the school curriculum I had the patience for. As for other books — whatever I happened to come across, usually all sorts of trash, I don't even want to name names so I don't embarrass myself.
And now, because my shoulder hurts, instead of the pool I've started taking a bath every day like a bourgeois, thank god I don't have water meters. And while I lie in the bath, I read classics on my Sony Reader, or something close to it. That's why I'm going to write pseudo-reviews. Why "pseudo"? Because I'm a lousy critic — I haven't read anything, I have nothing to compare it to. On the other hand, this might bring some fresh perspective — I am, after all, a guy with a semi-technical mindset, and an atheist/materialist on top of that. I'm sure someone will find it interesting to know how people like that perceive the classics, especially the highly literary ones sometimes. What I mean by that, see below.
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