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Have you ever started a book, and been immediately smacked by its current relevance?

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November 19, 2020, 01:11 AM
wingspar
Have you ever started a book, and been immediately smacked by its current relevance?
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut. I read it back in the 1970's. It’s about computers and machines taking over the world and putting people out of work if I remember correctly.


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Gary
Will Fly for Food... and more Ammo
Mosquito Lubrication Video

If Guns Cause Crime, Mine Are Defective.... Ted Nugent
November 19, 2020, 02:40 AM
f2
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
November 19, 2020, 07:07 AM
Fenris
Voltaire's Candide for the sheer absurdity of life.

And MacBeth in the original Klingon.



The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People again must learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. ~ Cicero 55 BC

The Dhimocrats love America like ticks love a hound.
November 19, 2020, 07:15 AM
Fredward
I recently had that experience with a tv series. JK Simmons starred as a man who passed thru to a parallel world experienced severe loss of freedom due to a viral pandemic. It was only slightly more extreme than our recent "lockdown" situation, but was made in 2016. I had to stop watching it.
November 19, 2020, 07:59 AM
gearhounds
Oryx and Crake.



“Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown
November 19, 2020, 08:00 AM
JohnCourage
Read the Alex Fletcher boxset a few months ago. Survival fiction based on a flu pandemic that I thought was strangely familiar to current events.


JC
November 19, 2020, 12:53 PM
mjlennon
The Right to Bear Arms: After the Riots Begin by Mike Foster MD