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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ChargedUpCharger on scored.co
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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?
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?