maybe one of these years I'll hit my reading goal
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Michael Kovacs has read 0 of 25 books.
It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, …
An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive cultural criticism, illuminating how streaming …
Two friends struggle against themselves and each other to move past friendship.
Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision …
keeping up with my dystopian reading lol
Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a …
Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a …
Content warning spoilers for the ending of the book
A pretty good book about machine automation and the class inequality that rises from that. As we have seen so far in the response to Luigi Mangione, the state will do everything in its power to squash class consciousness and actions that movement can take. While some from the class of the powers that be can have the heart to side with the powers that don’t, many want to uphold their status quo. America has been sold the idea that every one is a temporary displaced millionaire, but until the American people realize that we are all in this together and have the numbers against the upper class, movements against the upper class won’t have the juice to make the necessary changes. The Ghost Shirt Society has all the rhetoric, the gumption, and the “messiah” they needed to light the cause, but the American people didn’t show up when needed and all they were left with was a ruined town.
Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a …
The great American individual. Thinks he’s the embodiment of liberal thought throughout the ages. Stands on his own two feet, by God, alone and motionless. He’d make a good lamp post, if he’d weather better and didn’t have to eat.
— Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut (87%)
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what …
Suzuki is just an ordinary man until his wife is murdered. When he discovers the criminal gang responsible he leaves …
Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a …
Emerson came to jail to see him. ‘Henry,’ he said, ‘why are you here?’ And Thoreau said, ‘Ralph, why aren’t you here?’
— Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut (43%)
**2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of …
Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a …
“If Checker Charlie was out to make chumps out of men, he could damn well fix his own connections. Paul looks after his own circuits; let Charlie do the same.”
— Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut (19%%)
This is exactly how I feel when the fancy camera self-checkouts at work ring up my $12 lunch as a $3 pack of Claritin from time to time. If they’re spending this money to replace human workers with machines that are supposed to know all, who am I to disagree?
