Not necessarily a book you can recommend to everyone, just a book you personally like very much. Feel free to mention multiple books if you can’t name just one.
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. I appreciate his wit and style of satire.
Also the entire Dune series, or at least the first four books. I worry that we are leading into an age where we give up our self-determination to thinking machines.
Meme answer
- Pinocchio
Serious answer
- Bible … I mean … The Exorcist from 1970.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Not very original, I know, but I really enjoyed the humor.
Dune - Frabk Herbert Nutuk (The great speech) - M. Kemal Atatürk
Dunes up there too for me. So nervous about the movie… I’m trying to go in with low expectations but its difficult because the cast and previews for it seem stellar.
Ian M. Banks - The Player of Games
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My favourite as well! It’s the epitome of speculative science/fiction: taking a fascinating concept and exploring its implications - precisely what I want out of science fiction.
yeah that’s a fantastic book
The Gay Science by Nietzsche
The Silo Series by Hugh Howey
Glad to see someone is finally making this a TV series, apple TV grabbed it earlier this year.
https://www.looper.com/491615/wool-release-date-cast-plot/
(Sorry I don’t know how to make links in lemmur yet)
Fiction: Foundation by Isaac Asimov; Non-fiction: The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen
Hmm, maybe from general literature I’d pick Umberto Eco’s The Prague Cemetary, for being funny and interesting with an end that let’s your heart sink…
Or probably The god of small things by Arundhati Roy. The book is an absolute treat and Arundhati Roy is just great in general!
In politics, it would be easily Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman’s Manufacturing Consent. A lot of the books argument feels like common sense, however what impressed me so much was the detailed outline and references that drove down the point of the book so well.
1984