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You say the book is called 'Normal People', who is it by? Sounds like a book I might want to read.

Also to add while Fahrenheit 451 is over hyped I still think considering when he wrote the book was during the McCarthy Era I think it is an important piece of literature to capture the Zeitgeist of what that propaganda was doing at the time.

@KEV67 Ubik was certainly fun to read. I find out of Bradbury's work 451 is certainly overly hyped up due to its nature of being banned and published in Playboy for its beginnings I think out of all his work I really enjoyed Illustrated Man is a collection of short stories. I will look into Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle I am sure I have one of their books laying on one of my shelves. As for Frank Herbert I only read one of his stories just recently was the Santaroga Barrier I had no idea about The White Plague until you mentioned, goodness that sounds like a depressing read, Herbert from what I gathered in just the one book seems to have a weird attitude toward women for sure I cannot quite find the words to describe it right now.

@~Andrea~I am hoping to get my reading rates back up again too, I have a toddler who keeps me very busy. Let me know if you have any recommendations I am trying to build a new list from a perspective other then my own. Do you have a favorite sci-fi story? I would say mine is one by Philip K. Dick called 'Clans Of The Alphane Moon' but its always hard to decide they are all so good.

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Started Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolffson and Andrew McAfee. After that I plan on reading Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, which is a series I will take my time on. These two have been sitting on my nightstand for quite some time so I am going to finish them and look into some of the recommendations I got here.

@Franceyou know The Eyre Affair keeps popping up on my amazon account so I am going to take this as a sign to read it. Thank you for the other recommendations as well I will look into them for sure.

I have not heard but I will add it to my list. Thank you !

@HayleyI like the sounds of that. One sci-fi I read 2 years ago was called Prey by Michael Crichton was about a nanobot swarm that got loose in the dessert, I do not know if you're looking for any recommendations but that one was pretty good. As for Fahrenheit 451 I actually went to one of Ray Bradbury's book signing before he died and he signed that book for me and also wrote 'happy birthday' because it was also my birthday. He was an amazing speaker and very kind to meet in person. Thank you for the letting me know if you got any more recommendations feel free to drop me another, I appreciate it.

@timebugThank you that helps a lot as I never know where to start. I will defiantly look into Agatha Christie.

I feel so rude posting on here without a proper introduction. I live on the west coast and the past 2 years found my love of reading again, I at least make sure to read one book a month sometimes more but always at least one. My main hobby is sewing and I like to try different Kombucha. I am hoping to find more online communities as I cannot do social media anymore and would rather stay stuck in the 90's part of the internet. As for genres of books I seem to gravitate a lot toward sci-fi I have read a lot of Philip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury. I mainly joined here to try and get into other genres of story-time. Like mystery novels is one I ought to try or even an autobiography of someone, really anything other than sci-fi. I love sci-fi the most but I really want to try and branch out more.

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@KEV67I defiantly want to read Fountainhead but I like to take breaks from authors especially after Atlas Shrugged. From what I gathered about Fountainhead it seemed to delve into social contracts, capitalism and socialism being the main subjects of that book. I need to check on here if their is a review of Fountainhead if not you should write one I would greatly appreciate it.

@lunababymoonchildThank you for asking me to leave a review helped give me motivation I appreciate that. Yeah Ayn Rand was one of those authors I would hear about and when I picked up Atlas shrugged I did not think I would be interested but she has some good hooks in her story telling. Reading Atlas Shrugged was spontaneous for me it just sort of happened.

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This story seemed to be a tribute to the people that 'move' this world. As Ayn Rand discussed in her introduction she wanted to make a story about what happens when the 'movers' of the world go on strike due to a parasitical nature from mediocre people who hide in the name of virtue for humanity. Part one you get the feel of the world about to slip into a dystopian one however, the protagonist characters you meet are still trying to keep society going despite the bureaucracy and laws being made to obstruct their work as industrialists. The antagonist view the industrialists as greedy, inconsiderate, who have no spiritual value many are socialites and politicians. Part two is my favorite as it holds philosophical ideas about currency and money while also showing how harmful it is to allow meritocracy to disguise itself as virtue for humanity. The dystopian world creeps in with a drop of a totalitarian law as a result of what the antagonists of the story wanted without quite knowing or understanding. Slowly the genius of the world begin to mysteriously disappear and business as well. While that all happens the antagonists of the story are still wondering why things are getting worse, while the few protagonists left are trying to uncover the mystery of where all the bright minds have gone to. Part three is a mix of wrapping the story up as well as a lengthy philosophical break down on morals, living, and logical codes to a successful society. I enjoyed this whole book as the take away instills a way out of meritocracy. Some things within this book were a bit extra to my liking. There is a love triangle which I am not a huge fan of but reading more about Ayn Rand it seems like something she likes to do within her stories as well as her personal life suggests. The ending was ok, I am picky about endings though. I feel like it was a bit rushed as she seemed to try to show what happened with one character but left an implied feeling to it, then back to the love triangle. I felt like Ayn Rand could have focused more on what the world looked like after all the destruction. This is my first review I was not sure where to post this, also feel free to give me tips.

Once I get a feel for how the forum works to execute the review properly, I will soon.

Finished Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand in January and almost done with The Santaroga Barrier by Frank Herbert.