I'd like one too. He has a nice shop.
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https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/mary-shelley/frankenstein
Sharing another book that is free to download and own, depending on your local public domain laws. Enjoy!
"Mary Shelley (then Godwin) and Percy Bysshe Shelley were visiting their friend Lord Byron in Geneva one rainy summer. With the weather against them, they decided to spend their time writing ghost stories for each other. Frankenstein is Mary Shelley’s submission to their contest, later published anonymously in 1818.
1984 is mostly easy to read until the last third. Before then it almost makes you have hope that the world in the book changes. Then it becomes more difficult to read due to what happens to the main characters. The last dozen pages were disheartening. I would recommend it to read at least one time.
Brave New World is easier to read so far. The themes (people are all the same and just do as they are conditioned without quesion) have obviously been in other media for decades so there isn't anything that is too "new". I'll have to finish the book to really know what I think about it.
I finished 1984 by George Orwell last week and started Brave New World by Aldous Huxley a few days ago. I'm about halfway through so I should be finished with it by the end of the week.
Afterwich I’ll start The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains by Joseph LeDoux. It’s a book I’ve been wanting to read for a few months so I hope it’s as good as it sounds.
I’m still reading Epictetus: The Complete Works by Robin Waterfield and The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday.
Dang, I do have a copy but I don't know if I want to go back to back dystopian or just rip off the bandaid to get through it.
I also have Fahrenheit 451, which I really do like, but I haven't read that one in over a decade as well. I'm thinking I should just go ahead and reread them. Thanks for the motivation!
After about thirteen years I decided to give this a reread and realized I did forget a lot of it. It took longer to read due to the parallels between the state of the world and it's themes. I kept having to put it down for a few days. Most of the book is a simple read with only the last third becoming emotionally more difficult.
It's a disheartening book but I think it's something people should read regardless, at least once.
Thanks for reading!
Just cross posting this for those who may be interested. Enjoy!
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That's says a lot about the quality of the book.
While it's on my TBR, this is one of the books that I have never heard someone dislike. I think I want to wait until I have a physical copy to read it since it's so well liked. I have a few books that I need to get through first so I still have some time to make up my mind.