Iain Hollingshead from
The Telegraph offers some tongue-in-cheek literary advice.
A few of my favorites:
The Outsider by Albert Camus
Read by generations of schoolchildren in the original French, this slim volume is solely to blame for the ability of thousands of A-level students to regurgitate rote-learnt essays on existentialism – and their inability to ask the way to the Louvre.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Its set-up is almost as protracted as the dull protagonist’s endless cups of coffee. Then it suddenly descends into graphic sexual violence. Sweden’s most overrated export since Ikea.
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
No, you haven’t read it either.
You can read the rest here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/b...e-you-die.html