(August 29, 2010 at 12:53 pm)Watson Wrote: ...anything by Ray Bradbury, or read 1984 by George Orwell. 1984 is mind-blowing honestly.
Definitely. Bradbury's Martian Chronicles is great (I've read it at least four or five times in the past 25 years) and Farenheit 451 is quite good as well. Many of those stories in the MC haunt me still (especially "There Will Come Soft Rains"). I should read more of him.
1984 is brilliant.
Along similar lines, there is Arthur Koestler's novel Darkness at Noon. It is based on the Stalin show trials, about one of the original revolutionaries being arrested and him dealing with (and evading) the guilt from his actions in the past. Hard to put down.
“Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.” ~ E.M. Cioran
