Atlas Shrugged
its about a suppressed American society that that has little emphasis on it talented people but rather on controlling them and using them for its own gain. The main character is in the middle of all of this and pretty much watches as America falls victim to its own need for supremacy.
It is was also the book that inspired bioshock.
Don't read the God Delusion, unless you want to reaffirm your own religious beliefs
Also don't read Atlas Shrugged, everything that you could basically pull philosophically from that book you could get from the Anthem, and save yourself hundreds of pages of extraneous words.
Crime and Punishment is a Russian Novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It's about the moral dilemmas of an ex-student living in extreme poverty who formulates a plot to murder an old woman pawnbroker and steal her money, believing that he can use the money to do good things.
Ender's Game - genius kids are recruited to Battle School in hopes that one of them is good enough to lead the Earth's space fleet against alien invasion.
Stay the hell away from Atlas Shrugged, unless you want to read a brick on Kindle. Oh, and read The Jungle. It's a book about the tragedies and disgusting conditions that an immigrant coming to America had to face. Nobody ever gave a shit about the book's message on poverty and corruption, but the book's portrayal of the meatpacking industry was revolting enough to lead to several acts being started that would eventually become the Food and Drug Administration.
oh i've heard a lot of the jungle from us history and a tiny bit of world history, i even got to read a few excerpts from it in class. if i read it now though it would be like us history again and it would be kinda boring since that class went over the point and impact of that book a lot
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a book about Dirk Gently, who solves various strange happenings based on the theory that everything is interconnected and anything is possible. Written by Douglas Adams, it is an incredibly silly but incredibly good book about a private detective who gets paid all of *crag*ing nothing and deals with the supernatural frequently. It received an (also quite good) sequel, the Long Dark Teatime of the Soul and Douglas Adams was in the middle of writing yet another sequel, the Salmon of Doubt, when he died. The Salmon of Doubt can be found in The Salmon of Doubt (also a good book), which is a collection of some of Douglas Adams' various writings.
H.P. Lovecraft is seminal horror author that pretty much perfected the idea of horror through obscurity and a failure in man's comprehension. Cthulu, Yog-Sothoth, and all those other extraterrestrial demigods are his doing. He was also horribly, horribly racist.
The God Delusion
Brave New World
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
its about a suppressed American society that that has little emphasis on it talented people but rather on controlling them and using them for its own gain. The main character is in the middle of all of this and pretty much watches as America falls victim to its own need for supremacy.
It is was also the book that inspired bioshock.
Also don't read Atlas Shrugged, everything that you could basically pull philosophically from that book you could get from the Anthem, and save yourself hundreds of pages of extraneous words.
Stay the hell away from Atlas Shrugged, unless you want to read a brick on Kindle. Oh, and read The Jungle. It's a book about the tragedies and disgusting conditions that an immigrant coming to America had to face. Nobody ever gave a shit about the book's message on poverty and corruption, but the book's portrayal of the meatpacking industry was revolting enough to lead to several acts being started that would eventually become the Food and Drug Administration.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a book about Dirk Gently, who solves various strange happenings based on the theory that everything is interconnected and anything is possible. Written by Douglas Adams, it is an incredibly silly but incredibly good book about a private detective who gets paid all of *crag*ing nothing and deals with the supernatural frequently. It received an (also quite good) sequel, the Long Dark Teatime of the Soul and Douglas Adams was in the middle of writing yet another sequel, the Salmon of Doubt, when he died. The Salmon of Doubt can be found in The Salmon of Doubt (also a good book), which is a collection of some of Douglas Adams' various writings.
self-explanatory
He was also horribly, horribly racist.
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (AKA, the book Orwell AND Huxley ripped off)
Also, read 1984