A great holiday type read is 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' by Robert M. Pirsig. This was very popular in the late 1970s. The title is rather misleading, it's more a mysterious philosophical road trip!
Jul 29 2013 19:03
Jul 30 2013 21:33
I went on goodreads.com, which is a social aggregating site for readers, and found a list for "Socialist, communist, anarchist, or otherwise leftist science fiction and fantasy". I dare say it's much representative of almost all the suggestions given here on this thread. Did you guys made it yourselves or what?
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/10642.Left_wing_Science_Fiction_and_Fantasy
Jul 30 2013 22:02
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16881456-fighting-for-ourselves---anarcho-syndicalism-and-the-class-struggle?ac=1 (Holy crap, its on goodreads and it got an ok score, 3.56/5 by 9 people!)
Jul 30 2013 22:43
Auld-bod wrote:
A great holiday type read is 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' by Robert M. Pirsig. This was very popular in the late 1970s. The title is rather misleading, it's more a mysterious philosophical road trip!
After I read that I thought about "quality" for about a month. You know what I'm talking about?
Jul 31 2013 07:43
Mike S. #37
Yes the book slipped inside my head. Some years later I was watching the film ‘A Strange Place to Meet’, with Gerard Depardieu as a doctor at a highway rest stop, repairing his car in the middle of the night, completely stripping it down and laying out all the pieces, as he symbolically tried to repair his life. The thought occurred - has he read the book?
Aug 24 2013 19:14
I forgot to ask, but does anyone have these books on pdfs/epubs and care to upload it and share?
Aug 24 2013 23:57
I heartily agree with the Infinite Jest recommendation. It can take some time to grow engaged in it, as much of the earlier parts seem like well-written but disconnected vignettes, but around 2/3 of the way in or so I started thinking that it was the best book I had ever read. Also a pretty scathing attack on the generalized commodification characteristic of capitalist society, even if it wasn't intended to be so. David Foster Wallace's first novel, The Broom of the System, is really good too.
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Dark and horrific, but superbly well written. Read it in two sittings, literally couldn't put it down more than once - and then only to sleep.