Meme answer
- Pinocchio
Serious answer
- Bible ... I mean ... The Exorcist from 1970.
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The Gay Science by Nietzsche
The Silo Series by Hugh Howey
Glad to see someone is finally making this a TV series, apple TV grabbed it earlier this year.
https://www.looper.com/491615/wool-release-date-cast-plot/
(Sorry I don't know how to make links in lemmur yet)
Ian M. Banks - The Player of Games
The Warded Man / The Painted Man depending which region you live in. The main character is basically me.
I don't think I can narrow it down to a favorite, but Blindsight is pretty darn good.
My favourite as well! It's the epitome of speculative science/fiction: taking a fascinating concept and exploring its implications - precisely what I want out of science fiction.
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. I appreciate his wit and style of satire.
Also the entire Dune series, or at least the first four books. I worry that we are leading into an age where we give up our self-determination to thinking machines.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Not very original, I know, but I really enjoyed the humor.
Tough one, but I'll have to go with the Silmarillion.
Se questo Γ¨ un uomo - Primo Levi
Il mestiere di vivere - Cesare Pavese
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.
Dune - Frabk Herbert
Nutuk (The great speech) - M. Kemal AtatΓΌrk