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The Bible is like the Constitution. You don't have to read it to know it's meaning.
And I'll add the "/s" because it's 2025
The four horsemen of things people on the internet don't read, but still comment about endlessly:
I actually read 1984 because of all the "literally 1984" memes. It's dry but it does hold up surprisingly well.
It kinda reads like Orwell wanted to write an essay on the subject but thought it would get a larger audience if he wrote it as a novel. I read it about twenty years ago and even back then it was terrifying just how many of the predictions had already come true.
"Stand On Zanzibar" has entered the chat.
The author of the novel, John Brunner, read Alvin Toffler's books and wrote a science fiction novel based on them. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1969 and it's scary how many of the predictions came to pass