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What are you currently reading?
HappyHavoc:
The Road
ankhtahr:
Once again I'm reading Nineteen Eighty-Four. Have to do a presentation about it tomorrow. Still as frightening as it was when I first read it.
Is it cold in here?:
You can mention in your presentation that North Korean refugees who read it tend to go "Wow! How could he have known so accurately how it works?".
Now reading "Ignition!", by John Clark, about the history of liquid rocket fuel development. He was a clear and vivid writer with an easy conversational style and fascinating subject material. Working with some of those materials was on the borderline between bravery and grounds for involuntary commitment.
ankhtahr:
1984 was also rather accurate for the former GDR (eastern Germany). Everybody could have been a Stasi member, children have been trained from early on (even the uniform of the "spies" is somewhat similar to the uniform of the FDJ) and have been used to spy on their parents.
GarandMarine:
1984 was always creepy to me, whenever I finish it after a re-read "Shit that could happen" then I read Huxley's Brave New World... and I start to wonder if it HASN'T happened already.
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