saturdayindex wrote:Just finished Brave New World - Aldous Huxley.
1984 gets all the attention but this is the best dystopian novel.
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saturdayindex wrote:Just finished Brave New World - Aldous Huxley.
SamuraiDrifter wrote:saturdayindex wrote:Just finished Brave New World - Aldous Huxley.
Excellent book, to state the obvious.
I'm reading a couple of books at once now - Manufacturing Consent by Herman & Chomsky, and The Trillion Dollar Conspiracy by Jim Marrs for a little bit of tinfoil hat spiciness. Also just picked up The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber, and on the fiction front, Neuromancer by Gibson (a classic I'm way overdue on) and White Jazz by James Ellroy.
jcnporter wrote:RIP David Graeber, someone who saw right through the utter fraud and bullshit that has been UK politics over the last few years.
This is as good a summary of the 2019 UK elections as you'll read anywhere -
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/13/the-center-blows-itself-up-care-and-spite-in-the-brexit-election/
Orbited insanitarium wrote:Flicking through Valis by Philip K. Dick at the moment, it’s a psychologically infused sci-fi novel, with a similarity to the matrix with its reality-bending theme. Absolutely fantastic novel, you can really immerse yourself in it.
The plot moves around a bit, but it’s quite thought provoking when it does stray away.
Don’t know when I’ll be able to get my hands of the other 2 books of the trilogy, but enjoying it thus far!
SamuraiDrifter wrote:Orbited insanitarium wrote:Flicking through Valis by Philip K. Dick at the moment, it’s a psychologically infused sci-fi novel, with a similarity to the matrix with its reality-bending theme. Absolutely fantastic novel, you can really immerse yourself in it.
The plot moves around a bit, but it’s quite thought provoking when it does stray away.
Don’t know when I’ll be able to get my hands of the other 2 books of the trilogy, but enjoying it thus far!
I'm a huge PKD fan! Have you ever read anything else by him?
I enjoyed Valis, but it might be actually be my least favorite PKD novel I've read. Top of my list would be Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, and Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.
Records... don’t feel right; they’re not thick and solid like the old ones, they’re thin, and you can bend them. And that doesn’t seem right to me.
Phasen wrote:+10 pts for 1984 and Brave New World. They're almost too good for today/makes me depressed. World is a little crazy.
I'm reading 'dopamine nation' right now and it's a quick/easy read. Pretty funny too. Chapter one is about a guy who makes a masturbation machine, so it gets right into it.
We all have habits that we'd like to free ourselves from a bit (masturbation machines or otherwise) and this is a good read on that.
bungler666 wrote:Just read House of Leaves. Anyone else here read it?
The thing with the footnotes was cool and while I didn't find it particularly frightening there was one part that really creeped me out, the part where he meets a pornstar with a "smile that was all wrong".
Recommend it.
SamuraiDrifter wrote:Currently I'm reading "Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan And Tumblr To Trump And The Alt-Right." Quick read looking what led to the formation of the leaderless, transgressive, internet-based alt-right culture.
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