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All God's Children: Inside the Dark and Violent World of Street Families

Not necessarily about gang culture per say, but explores some of the possibilities as to why people with no family or hope, people who roam the streets, squatting under bridges or in abandoned tenements got that way.

After seeing season 4 of The Wire which dealt a little on this subject I figured it'd be a good follow up.

On the Road - 9/10.

One of the finest novels I've read in a long time. Kerouac makes full use of the English language, with extremely colourful and innovative expressions and descriptions; the language's structure drawing very heavily from the bebop jazz. It expresses such a joy for life I've never found in any other work of literature.

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Netherland-Joseph O Neill
Excellent read.

^^ Seriously?

Anyhow, I finally finished The Brothers Karamazov and am now moving on to something completely different:
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I was introduced to Emerson my sophomore year of high school, and haven't really revisited him since I'm a bit older now. Rereading "Self-Reliance" first and continuing to other works.

Mort was my first Pratchett book and is still one of my favourites.

I'm doing it chronologically...;)

Ah my mom just bought it for me 10 years ago and said "read this" so I did. Sometimes it's best to not question the giving nature of parents and just do what they say.

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Amazing.

I loved Cloud Atlas. I want to read more of his stuff.

Currently parallel reading:
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Both great so far.