1984 by George Orwell
After seeing multiple quotes from this flying around quite recently I decided to give it a read. It does lack character development and story, which I don't usually like, but then again it's all about the world-building so it doesn't matter that much. It may exaggerate its world beyond plausibility, but it draws a disturbingly accurate picture of the mindset that's being sold today under the moniker of liberalism; facts are dismissed on political reasons; words are redefined until they lose their meaning, reclaimed by one group or another, and invented to split us into (imaginary) enemies; truth, news, and science become political constructs. This should be mandatory reading in schools, but I'm afraid it's one of the first to get tossed into a pyre.
4/5
After seeing multiple quotes from this flying around quite recently I decided to give it a read. It does lack character development and story, which I don't usually like, but then again it's all about the world-building so it doesn't matter that much. It may exaggerate its world beyond plausibility, but it draws a disturbingly accurate picture of the mindset that's being sold today under the moniker of liberalism; facts are dismissed on political reasons; words are redefined until they lose their meaning, reclaimed by one group or another, and invented to split us into (imaginary) enemies; truth, news, and science become political constructs. This should be mandatory reading in schools, but I'm afraid it's one of the first to get tossed into a pyre.
4/5