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What's your favorite book? (lemmy.ml)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago

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 feels 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.