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Cloud Atlas is a -collection of six tales linked across time. As the book unfolds, the stories -riffle over one another like a pack of cards. David Mitchell brings the Cloud -Atlas world and the characters in it to life with beautiful, vivid -descriptions. The novel explores themes ranging from social to spiritual, -including the struggle for freedom against oppression, interconnectedness, and -rebirth.</p> - -<h2 id="enders-game">Ender’s Game</h2> - -<p>In this sci-fi novel, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin, an 11-year-old boy, is drafted to -lead a squad of young children in an offensive against an alien race. Ender’s -Game is a complex story that explores themes of war, leadership, and the -challenges gifted individuals must face as they navigate a lonely life marked -by envy, alienation, and, sometimes, much-needed friendship.</p> - -<h2 id="flowers-for-algernon">Flowers for Algernon</h2> - -<p>This novel, written as a series of progress reports, tells the tragic story of -Charlie Gordon, a developmentally disabled man who acquires superhuman -cognitive abilities through an experimental medical procedure. Charlie’s birth -family abandons him because he is not smart enough; his friends abandon him -because he is too smart. In the end, to spare everyone’s feelings, Charlie must -end up in the Warren Home.<sup><a href="#footnote-1">1</a></sup> This is my -favourite book in the list.</p> - -<h2 id="dead-souls">Dead Souls</h2> - -<p>Dead Souls is the story of Ivanovich Chichikov, a traveling merchant who trades -dead serfs. Gogol’s writing style is similar to Dostoyevsky’s. Considering how -Gogol’s work predates Dostoyevsky’s, Gogol is one of the most original authors -I’ve read. Instead of simply describing them, Gogol develops realistic -characters in minute detail by employing theatrical clashes between them.</p> - -<h2 id="the-overcoat">The Overcoat</h2> - -<p>Gogol’s The Overcoat is one of the finest short stories I’ve read. Akaky -Akakievich, an impoverished government clerk, buys a new overcoat. I recommend -reading Gogol before Dostoyevsky. What Gogol invented, Dostoyevsky perfected.</p> - -<h2 id="demons">Demons</h2> - -<p>After reading Demons, a story about an attempted revolution, I realized that -Dostoyevsky’s reputation is well-deserved. Dostoyevsky was a great observer of -human nature. He depicts characters in profound detail. Dostoyevsky’s writing -can feel long and meandering at times. However, as character development goes, -Dostoyevsky wastes no stroke of the brush. Demons is a book that anyone -aspiring to bring about change through revolution, especially in the name of -someone else’s ideals, must read.</p> - -<h2 id="the-outsider">The Outsider</h2> - -<p>Camus’s own quote, “In our society, any man who doesn’t cry at his mother’s -funeral is liable to be condemned to death,” summarizes the book quite well. -The book is about the philosophy of the absurd: the contention between our -propensity to seek meaning in a seemingly silent and indifferent universe. To -appreciate the philosophical elements of this novel, check out The Myth of -Sisyphus.</p> - -<h2 id="frankenstein">Frankenstein</h2> - -<p>I first got to know the Frankenstein story through its popular derivatives. The -book changed my impression of the story from one about a familiar monster to -one about a poignant genius deserving empathy. Mary Shelley’s intricate writing -style is singularly captivating. In this list, Frankenstein is the most -beautifully written book.</p> - -<h2 id="strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde">Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde</h2> - -<p>The story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde needs no introduction. I’m drawn to -Stevenson’s writing style the same way I am to Mary Shelley’s. Both writers -evoke deep feelings and paint vivid images using simple language. The economy -of their language lacks neither precision nor power. If I could write like any -author, I would choose Mary Shelley or Stevenson.</p> - -<h2 id="brave-new-world-and-nineteen-eighty-four">Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four</h2> - -<p>Huxley’s Brave New World and Orwell’s 1984 are inseparable, visionary novels -that depict dystopian futures from two extremes. For some reason, I felt Brave -New World lacked something despite being the more prescient of the two. It may -be Orwell’s eloquence overshadowing Huxley’s brilliance. In any event, these -two books are more relevant today than they’ve ever been.</p> - -<h2 id="memoirs-of-a-madman">Memoirs of a Madman</h2> - -<p>Another one of Gogol’s brilliant short stories. Presented in the form of -Aksenty Ivanovich’s diary, the story documents the government clerk’s descent -into madness. His obsession with social status and self-aggrandizement leads -him on a trajectory of envy, wounded pride, and outright insanity.</p> - -<div class="footnotes" role="doc-endnotes"> - <ol> - <li> - <a href="https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/f/flowers-for-algernon/about-flowers-for-algernon" class="external" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Cliff's Notes </a> - </li> - </ol> -</div> - -</div> - <p class="post-author right">by Wickramage Don Sadeep Madurange</p> - </div> - </main> - - </body> -</html> |