Machiavelli’s *The Prince*. He wasn’t saying it was a good thing that rulers act that way.
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Fahrenheit 451.
Ray Bradbury himself says: “It’s Not About Censorship, But People “Being Turned Into Morons by TV”
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Complicated opinion incoming:
One of the biggest discussions surrounding Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is that, apparently, lots of people think it’s a love story. I have literally never seen anyone say that, I think the majority of people know exactly what the book is doing with its unreliable narrator. In this day and age its hard to mistake it for a love story so I highly doubt that many people think it is.
BUT I think Lolita, especially the movies, have had a dangerous impact on the young women that watch it. They know damn well what’s going on and I don’t think they exactly support pedophilia, but I’ve seen so many of them fetishise the ‘aesthetic’ of it. Use clips from the movie or quotes from the book and edit them to look all cute and pretty with pictures of big hands or grown men smoking cigarettes, tiny cutesy girls sat on their laps, bows and braids, the whole ‘daddy’ aesthetic. Which, considering its a movie about literal child abuse, is a bit disturbing.
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Atlas Shrugged. Yes, it’s pro capitalism, but people don’t seem to realize free thinking is apolitical, and the point is to stop being sheeple and think for yourself.
Making it a rallying cry for the political Right shows they missed some huge points in the book…of course that’s assuming every flag covered F250 driving person with “WHO IS JOHN GALT” across the back window even read the book. Probably not.
On the Left side of things, people seem to hate it simply because it’s pro capitalism, when it the paralysis of the government is so relevant today’s political and economic stage.
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That Jane Eyre is a feminist icon. What part of being a nurse-maid to a manipulative, gaslighting, broke-ass, lying, old as fuck, selfish piece of shit, as the best alternative to *marrying your asshole cousin*, is feminist?
Edit: why am I being downvoted? OP said most controversial, not most tame and agreeable!
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Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer.
A lot of the bad reviews I have read are from people who dislike Chris McCandless and disagree with his decision making which is a really shitty way to review a book. Chris was careless and selfish, but the book doesn’t shy away from analysing Chris’ complex character in full, even though it is clear that the author has more of an affinity for him than the average reader. Just because you disagree with the decisions made by Chris, that doesn’t mean this book is bad?! I found it had a good pacing, was researched well, and really did it’s best to help me, the average reader, begin to understand how a person like Chris ended up in the situation that he did. Do I think he was selfish, egotistical, and narcissistic? Yes. Does that make this book badly done? Absolutely not!
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Books 1 and 2 of the Dune series tell a good self-contained story about how being a charismatic leader uniting a whole society is actually a road to genocide, atrocities, and personal misery. This is what Herbert intended to write, based on what he stated his intentions were.
Starting with book 3, Children of Dune, this series changes to being about how humanity needs an omniscient leader with ultimate power, no matter how tyrannical. Herbert himself believed eugenics was necessary, which I feel a lot of modern readers are able to overlook, at least at first, but the more you read, the harder it is to excuse.
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Machiavelli’s *The Prince*. He wasn’t saying it was a good thing that rulers act that way.
Fahrenheit 451.
Ray Bradbury himself says: “It’s Not About Censorship, But People “Being Turned Into Morons by TV”
Complicated opinion incoming:
One of the biggest discussions surrounding Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is that, apparently, lots of people think it’s a love story. I have literally never seen anyone say that, I think the majority of people know exactly what the book is doing with its unreliable narrator. In this day and age its hard to mistake it for a love story so I highly doubt that many people think it is.
BUT I think Lolita, especially the movies, have had a dangerous impact on the young women that watch it. They know damn well what’s going on and I don’t think they exactly support pedophilia, but I’ve seen so many of them fetishise the ‘aesthetic’ of it. Use clips from the movie or quotes from the book and edit them to look all cute and pretty with pictures of big hands or grown men smoking cigarettes, tiny cutesy girls sat on their laps, bows and braids, the whole ‘daddy’ aesthetic. Which, considering its a movie about literal child abuse, is a bit disturbing.
Atlas Shrugged. Yes, it’s pro capitalism, but people don’t seem to realize free thinking is apolitical, and the point is to stop being sheeple and think for yourself.
Making it a rallying cry for the political Right shows they missed some huge points in the book…of course that’s assuming every flag covered F250 driving person with “WHO IS JOHN GALT” across the back window even read the book. Probably not.
On the Left side of things, people seem to hate it simply because it’s pro capitalism, when it the paralysis of the government is so relevant today’s political and economic stage.
That Jane Eyre is a feminist icon. What part of being a nurse-maid to a manipulative, gaslighting, broke-ass, lying, old as fuck, selfish piece of shit, as the best alternative to *marrying your asshole cousin*, is feminist?
Edit: why am I being downvoted? OP said most controversial, not most tame and agreeable!
Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer.
A lot of the bad reviews I have read are from people who dislike Chris McCandless and disagree with his decision making which is a really shitty way to review a book. Chris was careless and selfish, but the book doesn’t shy away from analysing Chris’ complex character in full, even though it is clear that the author has more of an affinity for him than the average reader. Just because you disagree with the decisions made by Chris, that doesn’t mean this book is bad?! I found it had a good pacing, was researched well, and really did it’s best to help me, the average reader, begin to understand how a person like Chris ended up in the situation that he did. Do I think he was selfish, egotistical, and narcissistic? Yes. Does that make this book badly done? Absolutely not!
Books 1 and 2 of the Dune series tell a good self-contained story about how being a charismatic leader uniting a whole society is actually a road to genocide, atrocities, and personal misery. This is what Herbert intended to write, based on what he stated his intentions were.
Starting with book 3, Children of Dune, this series changes to being about how humanity needs an omniscient leader with ultimate power, no matter how tyrannical. Herbert himself believed eugenics was necessary, which I feel a lot of modern readers are able to overlook, at least at first, but the more you read, the harder it is to excuse.
The Bible.