Probably the movie Perfect Blue. I love creatively told, dark stories, and I love good animation, that movie expertly delivered on both and resonated with me.
This might be an odd answer, but:
Open Intellectual Property Casebook by James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins.
The Origin on Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes.
Now that was a wild read.
read that one 20 years ago and still think about it sometimes.
A Canticle for Lebowitz. A post apocalyptic scifi written about earth after a nuclear holocaust written in the 1950s and is extremely fun and terrifying to read. The guy who wrote it was a WW2 bomber and only every wrote this one book and it is an amazing piece of literature.
Sounds like “One Second After” which is about a man and his family trying to survive after nuclear war hits america.
Finnegans Wake. I read it across the year with an online group. It was always on the edge of incomprehensibility - often well over the edge - but it definitely had a impact.
This year’s ‘big read’ will be the Chinese classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms I’m just about to make a start.
The E-Myth. A classic for entrepreneurs, I had waited to read it as nd I think it was the right time. For me, it clicked that a business needs to become a machine, with defined processes. Of course, I chose a very innovative service to make, so getting there will be tough. But the book definitely helped me get more sense of direction.
Planet of exile by Ursula K. Le Guin
I love the Hainish cycle, such beautiful writing and characters.
Started reading Hyperion, couldn’t finish it because of the Sol Weintraub story, it’s hard to read when you have kids
I finished it and read the sequel, loved the Shrike story line but there’s better scifi to read in my opinion.
i’m reading Hyperion now! just finished Kassad’s story. 😧
Yeah, it’s funny when the shit hits the fan when he’s mid orgasm
It’s kind of been a shallow year for both books and movies in terms of impact on me. That’s not to say it’s been a bad year for them, but it’s mostly been just ‘enjoyable’.
That said, it was probably Radicalized by Cory Doctorow. It’s a collection of four novellas that follow different characters pushed into different kinds of extremist action. The one where people start murdering health insurers was particularly heavy.
I watched the Evangelion rebuild movies, and having a positive ending to a depressing story like that was cathartic.
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
Read it this summer and it instantly became a keeper.
Mind change, and yoga mind are two books that really helped me work through my trauma. They aren’t for everyone, but if you’re struggling to figure your shit out its a place to start at least.
The law of 1 - the book of Ra. Book 1.
I’m open for comments on this. It is so far past the whoo whoo scale I’m not even sure how I started reading it without quitting.
Antifragile by Nassim Taleb let me embrace progress and change
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