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1984
George Orwell
Big Brother is watching. This book changed how I think about language, power, and truth.
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Lucy's transformation is genuinely disturbing. Stoker understood that the scariest monsters are the ones we loved.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Fascinating research but the book is about 100 pages too long. Gets repetitive in the middle.
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
A book about everything disguised as a book about whaling. Melville packed the entire human condition in here.
A Feast for Crows
George R. R. Martin
Martin split the book geographically and it shows. Where are Tyrion, Dany, and Jon? I missed them dearly.
Frankenstein o el Prometeo moderno
Mary Shelley
The framing device (letters within a story within a story) is clunky but the core narrative is powerful.
The great gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beautifully written but I found it hard to care about any of the characters. Maybe that's the point.
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Bronte poured her soul into this. You can feel the autobiographical pain and triumph.
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Parts of it are hilarious, other parts are a slog. Worth the effort overall.
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