Reading Warhammer Ogre Kingdoms, published by Game Workshop, a game strategy book which describes the history, culture and heirarchy of ogre kingdoms.
His favorite books--1984, by George Orwell; Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess; and Starship Troopers, by Robert Heinlein. He likes dystopias. Starship Troopers, he said was a Grade B movie, but it was also a pretty good book about the downfall of capitalism. He read 1984 in the seventh grade and liked thinking about what are the problems we have in society and how we aren't fixing them.
What have you read that's made you to think about society and its problems?
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There are many fiction writers whose work I admire for this very reason - Ray Bradbury, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley to name a few.
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and Redemption by Lee Jackson. Both are pretty depressing, but thought-provoking.
Anthem by Ayn Rand.
Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham. So against his normal way of writing, but his best work in my opinion.
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