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by joseda-hg 626 days ago
- Siddhartha

- Demian

- A Brave New World

- 1984

- A hundred years of solitude, although, I read it in Spanish and I don't know if it'll be as impactful with less cultural shared context

I remember being forced to read it in class, and being completely repulsed by it, then, during a black out finding the book and absolutely loving it

Something as small as suddenly being made aware of how a couple generations ago, people not too far away from me could be marveled at something as mundane to me as ice (Because pre-widespread refrigeration someone born in a dessert could just never see ice in their entire life) really got to me, and then the book itself happened