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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future …
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Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future …
The prospects and promises of artificial general intelligence advancing to super-intelligence and from there into the singularity.
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college …
When Kate L. Turabian first put her famous guidelines to paper, she could hardly have imagined the world in which …
While this book features the finest world building in all of fiction and perhaps even all of English literature, its obsession with detail makes it a difficult read. It is not something I should have attempted reading at age 13 (did not finish at about 35%), but restarting it was one of the finest decisions I've ever made.
The implications of this book are beyond my years, but its story-telling is wonderful and it is the finest piece of classic literature I have read to date.
Never before has there been an author that writes suffering on the same level as John Hersey. If you are looking for a historical fiction book to read, this is the one. Just read Hiroshima, and I guarantee you will not regret it.
If this was published after 1980, I would have given it one star. Being honest, I read I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream for AM's hate speech, and nothing else. The book itself is an amalgamation of obscene (and unrealistic) gore, with little-to-no character development and an unreliable narrator. All-in-all, I'd just recommend you play the game instead of reading the book. While media adapted from literature is oftentimes pathetic compared to the source material, the video game adaptation of I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream far outperforms what is presented here. If you really want to read this, I'd recommend an audiobook, as listening to somebody read it gives some semblance of emotion.
Monday Charles is missing, and only Claudia seems to notice. Claudia and Monday have always …
Hands down the best YA novel I will ever read.
An action-packed comedy about a fake family that includes a spy, an assassin and a telepath!
Master spy Twilight is …
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist …
I sincerely hope this is part of a school curriculum one day. While the concept of the unreliable narrator has been around for centuries, this is one of the best uses of the technique I've seen since Edgar Allen Poe's Cask of Amontillado. On top of that, Hendrix's portrayal of post-traumatic stress built a sense panic that kept the pages turning for hours at a time, 10/10.