The Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. written in 1932. I first read it in 1972. So precisely accurate in describing the surveillance of the entire world, the use of technology to brainwash the masses, the use of pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines to dumb down the people,the police becoming militarized, the dissolution of the family structure, the reversing of gender roles, the governments subtle and insidious usurpation of people's human rights etc. He was the mentor for George Orwell (Eric Blair) who wrote 1984 in 1949.
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@RenaissanceMan Thank you for your answer, I'll add this book to my backlog!
@SW-User you will enjoy it immensely. There's a lot more. It includes the life of people who reject technology. Designer babies, cloning of animals, self driving and flying cars,how pharmaceuticals and vaccines will be used to turn people into dumb downed sheep! There's more...1984 is mostly about the surveillance system and it's global structure to brainwash all societies.
[b]1. Alcoholics Anonymous[/b] - goes without saying. Tomorrow I'll be 15 years sober. [b]2. The Road Less Travelled M Scott Peck.[/b] Helped in me early soberity learn to take a different path to the one I'd been following. [b]3. Make your own Electric Guitar Melvyn Hiscox[/b] - led to one of my hobbies, assembling guitars. [b]4. Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut Jr.[/b] I was just blown away reading this as a teenager largely that someone could write stuff like that it was just so mind expanding.
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Congrats on your 15 years. That’s awesome! @SW-User
Kristin Labransdotter; it's a trilogy of life in medieval Norway.
She married a semi-nobleman and ran a large estate. Her husband was was a terrible farmer, resulting in much conflict in their relationship. Then war came to their country. And it turned out that her husband was a superb soldier and leader of men.
My whole life I had been a round peg trying to squeeze into a square hole. This book showed me that it wasn't just that I was completely screwed up, but that in the proper environment, I could thrive.
yes, the Kite Runner. Read it and went to Kabul ..
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Yes,the Bible. It showed me how to behave correctly,and the real definition of love. Which is very different than humanities idea of love.The ability to behave correctly and knowing the real definition of love, has given me a much better life than I ever thought possible.
Do I choose Watership Down which was the first book to make me cry, or Jane Eyre which began my love for classics, or Jonathon Livingston Seagull which noone else seems to have read
