Bill Gates recommended book right now? The Great Gatsby F. Scot Fitzgerald: The book portrays the Jazz Age very accurately talks about the disillusionment of money, status and lavish living. The story revolves around a rich man Jay Gatsby who threw glamourous parties at his Long Island’s mansion. Although there were hundreds of guests, loud jazz music, champagne and confetti all around, Jay Gatsby was distant and uninterested because he had only one guest to impress – a married, elegant and charismatic woman from Kentucky, Daisy Buchanan. A tragic pursuit by Gatsby for attaining the unattainable even when he was living an ‘American Dream’ life shows that happiness is more than what money and status are all about. Here is what Bill Gates said about this book: “The novel that I re-read the most. Melinda and I love one line so much that we had it painted on a wall in our house: ‘His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.'” “Power comes not from knowledge kept but from knowledge shared.” Discover even more info at Bill Gates book recommend.
Doors crashed through the powerful World Book Encyclopedia set at age 8, however, he had maybe his greatest impression as an 11-year-old in his congregation affirmation class. Consistently, Reverend Dale Turner moved his students to remember parts 5-7 of the Book of Matthew – a.k.a. the Sermon on the Mount – and offered the effective ones supper on the Space Needle. At the point when Gates proceeded, Reverend Turner was paralyzed as the kid presented the around 2,000-word text with zero blunders. While 31 of his cohorts ultimately got to chow down at the Space Needle Restaurant, Gates was the main one to convey an immaculate exhibition.
Catcher in the Rye is undoubtfully a classical work of the American literature and is very popular in “Top 10 books” lists. This novel was the peak of J.D. Salinger’s career, as after it was published, he decided to live a life of a hermit. The main character being an expelled student named Holden Caulfield, the book is a first-person story written in the accordingly stylized language. Though he is just 16, he encounters many events that tend to preclude adults. Catcher in the Rye is about a youth of 1960-s,but it is still actual today.
Bill Gates’ early life could easily be turned into a series, starting from his childhood home in Seattle and leading up to his success story. As a kid, he got bullied a lot, but that didn’t stop him from aiming high. His plans didn’t always coincide with those of his parents, though. Bill Gates’s family wanted to send him to law school, which would fit perfectly in the family history—his father was a lawyer. Bill Gates started writing software as a kid. Even before he graduated high school, it was obvious he wasn’t like the other children. At the age of 13, he made a version of tic-tac-toe on a General Electric computer. As a comparison, at the age of 13, I had just found out that ripped jeans are ripped on purpose. What were you doing at 13?
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles: Gates admits he reads a lot more nonfiction than fiction, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t profoundly moved by a novel now and again. In fact, he includes three on his best books ever list. In his 2019 review of this one about a Russian count sentenced to 30 years of house arrest in a hotel by the Bolsheviks, he confesses the novel brought him to tears. “A Gentleman in Moscow is an amazing story because it manages to be a little bit of everything. There’s fantastical romance, politics, espionage, parenthood, and poetry,” he writes, suggesting it not just for students of Russian history but for everyone who likes a great story well told. See more details on snapreads.com.