Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceAlways heard about it but was too intimidated to read it until some unknowable mental screw frayed and I finally decided to take the plunge… and I’m glad I did.
It’s a tad long, but it doesn’t really resemble anything I’ve ever read. It’s a surprisingly prescient dystopian novel set in an alternate near future where years are sponsored by corporate conglomerates. It mainly takes place in an elite junior tennis academy and a nearby drug/alcohol recovery halfway house.
It was written by this dude that I honestly don’t even know if I like, but who is talented beyond all reckoning. He made a whole world you can both pinpoint and lounge in. (Whoops can’t end a sentence in a prepositional.) He just kinda spilled his whole soul out on paper for everything he was worth; then, as someone with severe, clinical depression often does, killed himself in 2008
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Basically I’m just advertising for anyone that has read or wants to read this book so we can talk about it in PM’s.
The Dark Enlightenment by Nick Land A tiny little condensed laser-beam of societal analysis. A 3-4 casual-shit read (under 100 pages) ; would suggest some familiarity with major western philosophers. Can’t look at the world the same way ever again.
The Machiavellians by James BurnhamA masterpiece and mind-expanding primer for anyone with an open mind that has lost faith in our modern democracy. He runs through some major bulletpoints and cuts to the quick. One of the best books I’ve ever read.
Free pdf
https://ia601307.us.archive.org/14/items/BurnhamJamesTheMachiavellians/Burnham%2C%20James%20-%20The%20Machiavellians.pdf