Setting aside ethical concerns, and purely as an intellectual exercise, what book would you force someone to read—even if it meant prying their eyes open like in A Clockwork Orange?
Take this entry in the playful tone it's meant in. My picks: The Iliad and The Odyssey—to smash the presentist notion that everyone who came before us was dumber than we are.
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Vita Nostra, Dyachenkos. To suggest there is something beyond logic, our way of thinking. And this gives some kind of freedom. Maybe. 🙂
Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell. It’s one of the books the least number of people who could benefit from reading it will.
The Brainwashing of my Dad by Jen Senko
1984 and animal farm, to warn people for extremist regimes.
The God Delusion
if we’re going torture: brainwyrms by alison rummfit
if we’re going must reads … I know quite a few people who should read “this monk wears heels” by kodo nishimura