Prose

Here are some useful texts for making one think. Even, maybe, think a little differently about things you might have thought about before and written off. It's really just that, a making-people-think list. That didn't make a very good title however, so here, with no further ado, is the

Subversive Reading List

Aldous Huxley — Brave New World
— Doors of perception
Ray Bradbury — Farenheit 451
R. Heinlein — Stranger in a strange land
Peter Schaffer — Equus
Luke Rhinehart — The Diceman
Douglas Coupland — Generation X
George Orwell — Animal Farm
— 1984
Brett Easton Ellis — American Psycho
Joseph Heller — Catch 22
Kurt Vonnegut — Slaughterhouse 5
Oscar Wilde — A picture of Dorian Grey
Anthony Burgess — A clockwork orange
Neal Stephenson — The Diamond Age
Richard Bach — Jonathan Livingstone Seagull
Jack Kerouac — On the Road
William Burroughs — The naked lunch
Allen Ginsberg — Howl and other poems
Fritjof Kapra — Uncommon Wisdom
— Tao of Physics
J.G Ballard — High Rise
Joseph Conrad — Heart of darkness
Chinua Achebe — Things fall apart
Olive Schreiner — The story of an African farm
Roald Dahl — Tales of the unexpected
Hunter S Thompson — The Rum Diary
Laurens Van Der Post — The face beside the fire
Orson Scott Card — Enders Game
Russell Hoban — Klein Zeit
Edgar Allan Poe — Tales of Mystery and the imagination
13 Nov 2005
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