I have great websites/authors and information on non-fiction topics but I'd like to read more fiction books for relaxing.
This will be good I think for the community to share as a whole.
What are your recommendations?
Thank you
Edit: great recommendations, thank you everyone.
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In case you fell asleep in high school English class brave new world and 1984 are both still classics and very enlightening. Brave new world is a society ruled by pleasure and the elimination of suffering, basically endless porn and SSRIs’. 1984 obviously the manipulation of language and the effects of propaganda and societal control.
Both still fun and good reads. But also harassment architecture and gothic violence both by Mike Ma are good too. They’re basically if you took a stream of conscious of anyone on ConPro. The second has a bit more of a story and better prose IMO.
I've read the first two, not in highschool though but actually just came across Mike Ma posted elsewhere so I'll take it as a indication to read. Thanks
Fahrenheit 451 and This Perfect Day are also interesting takes on the dystopia genre. Fahrenheit 451 is about a world where books are banned. Instead people veg out and watch these endless pointless soap operas all day. People are discouraged from the "wrong" types of recreation, such as just talking to other people.
This Perfect Day is about a society where everyone is drugged all the time (to a greater degree than Brave New World). All citizens are taught from birth to be completely non-violent, to the degree that the word "fight" is considered profanity, and they don't even have words to describe punching someone.
One thing I like about both of these is that they're *not* about everything being as terrible as it can possibly be, all the time. Instead freedom is traded for ..other things. There are significant benefits, and in some ways their societies are superior. But is it worth the cost?
Both still fun and good reads. But also harassment architecture and gothic violence both by Mike Ma are good too. They’re basically if you took a stream of conscious of anyone on ConPro. The second has a bit more of a story and better prose IMO.
This Perfect Day is about a society where everyone is drugged all the time (to a greater degree than Brave New World). All citizens are taught from birth to be completely non-violent, to the degree that the word "fight" is considered profanity, and they don't even have words to describe punching someone.
One thing I like about both of these is that they're *not* about everything being as terrible as it can possibly be, all the time. Instead freedom is traded for ..other things. There are significant benefits, and in some ways their societies are superior. But is it worth the cost?