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Description: "Mind- and reality-bending drugs factor again and again in Philip K. Dick's hugely"Mind- and reality-bending drugs factor again and again in Philip K. Dick's hugely influential SF stories. A Scanner Darkly cuts closest to the bone, drawing on Dick's own experience with illicit chemicals and on his many friends who died from drug abuse. Nevertheless, it's blackly farcical, full of comic-surreal conversations between people whose synapses are partly fried, sudden flights of paranoid logic, and bad trips like the one whose victim spends a subjective eternity having all his sins read to him, in shifts, by compound-eyed aliens. (It takes 11,000 years of this to reach the time when as a boy he discovered masturbation.) The antihero Bob Arctor is forced by his double life into warring double personalities: as futuristic narcotics agent "Fred," face blurred by a high-tech scrambler, he must spy on and entrap suspected drug dealer Bob Arctor. His disintegration under the influence of the insidious Substance D is genuine tragicomedy. For Arctor there's no way off the addict's downward escalator, but what awaits at the bottom is a kind of redemption--there are more wheels within wheels than we suspected, and his life is not entirely wasted."...

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Description: A love story (dealing with all different sorts of love) set in London's Bangladeshi community.A love story (dealing with all different sorts of love) set in London's Bangladeshi community. This is a very interesting insight into what is, for a lot of us, an 'alien' culture, and what it means, for all of us, to be human. ...

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Tags: fiction mystery novel

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Author: Jhumpa Lahiri

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Author: John Steinbeck

Tags: classic nonfiction literature american identity historic

Description: Steinbeck rides around the country for three months with his french poodle, Charley, whileSteinbeck rides around the country for three months with his french poodle, Charley, while living in a camper on the back of his truck. It may not sound very interesting but in this book you can find everything that is good (and a lot that is bad) about this country. It is both inspiring and depressing and something that everyone should read at least once....

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Author: Hari Kunzru

Tags: india identity abuse