Oh, someone else just recced me Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. This was a good reminder to put it on my list!
I've actually done some reading recently, which is sadly kind of unusual for me (I'm impressed by how much you've read!). But I liked everything I've read recently, so I guess these are all recs:
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro: Set in a dystopian future, the story of an AI and the sick child she is a companion for, from the POV of the AI. Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go is one of my all time favorite books. This one doesn't rank as high, but I did like it a lot. The AI POV was a fascinating way to tell the story -- both in terms of the emotional heart of the story and the way it allowed worldbuilding to be very subtle and a lot of it by implication. And Ishiguro's writing is just so freaking beautiful.
Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas: A queer prep school story with shades of A Secret History, set just post-9/11 and tackling the world of early-aughts fan-fic in a way that I have simply never seen before. Like, it gets it. It's hilarious and a page turner, and the fraught friendship at the heart of it is really compelling. The climax didn't really land for me, but it was still well worth the read IMO.
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein. A history of how free market advocates exploited crises to implement their policies (and the terrible results). While I felt like the central metaphor between literal shock therapy and economic policies was sometimes strained like...damn. I learned a lot that maybe I already should of known, or kind of did know but not REALLY. I'm going to be thinking about this one a lot.
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Date: 2023-09-15 03:35 am (UTC)I've actually done some reading recently, which is sadly kind of unusual for me (I'm impressed by how much you've read!). But I liked everything I've read recently, so I guess these are all recs:
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro: Set in a dystopian future, the story of an AI and the sick child she is a companion for, from the POV of the AI. Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go is one of my all time favorite books. This one doesn't rank as high, but I did like it a lot. The AI POV was a fascinating way to tell the story -- both in terms of the emotional heart of the story and the way it allowed worldbuilding to be very subtle and a lot of it by implication. And Ishiguro's writing is just so freaking beautiful.
Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas: A queer prep school story with shades of A Secret History, set just post-9/11 and tackling the world of early-aughts fan-fic in a way that I have simply never seen before. Like, it gets it. It's hilarious and a page turner, and the fraught friendship at the heart of it is really compelling. The climax didn't really land for me, but it was still well worth the read IMO.
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein. A history of how free market advocates exploited crises to implement their policies (and the terrible results). While I felt like the central metaphor between literal shock therapy and economic policies was sometimes strained like...damn. I learned a lot that maybe I already should of known, or kind of did know but not REALLY. I'm going to be thinking about this one a lot.