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vlehto  ·  4262 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are some *personal* essential readings?

Clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess.

You get to know evil and he is Max. The weird thing about him it is that you'll probably like him. At the same time the book has nice critique of justice system, city life and the society as a whole.

After reading it, I've been certain that moral behavior and feeling s don't have much to do with each other. People need robust principles to guide their morals. Why? You just felt amusement while someone was gang-raped.

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.

It's exciting and after you have read it, hobos look little different. For me it was a story about how cool life can be and yet it can look very indifferent to an outsider.





neptath  ·  4261 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Clockwork is such a wonderful book with its commentary on adolescence, government, privacy, death, free will, and so on and so forth.