You might want to check out Day of the Triffids. I remember liking it back in 87 when I read it. As far as I can recall, Triffids are plants created to produce oil as part of their metabolic process, but are carnivorous. Then there's some kind of accident, and millions around the world are blinded. It's a good book about unintended consequences.
Move His Dark Materials to the top of your list. You won't regret it.
Read all the Pratchett you can. It's all good.
I'm not going to tell you to reread Heart of Darkness, because it is a very sad book, but if you don't like it, just remember that it's mostly autobiographical. Conrad actually saw and experienced a lot of what he describes. If you really want to be blown away by history, read more about the Belgian Congo. King Leopold's Ghost is a good starting place, though the pictures are heartwrenching.
Dracula is nifty, and also not well adapted in any film I have seen. It's a book about modernism, and the great progress coming in the 20th century. I read it in 1998, when it was 100 years old, and it had a special 'millenium is coming' resonance, but I think it'd still be worth reading. It went well with War of the Worlds, as I recall.
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Move His Dark Materials to the top of your list. You won't regret it.
Read all the Pratchett you can. It's all good.
I'm not going to tell you to reread Heart of Darkness, because it is a very sad book, but if you don't like it, just remember that it's mostly autobiographical. Conrad actually saw and experienced a lot of what he describes. If you really want to be blown away by history, read more about the Belgian Congo. King Leopold's Ghost is a good starting place, though the pictures are heartwrenching.
Dracula is nifty, and also not well adapted in any film I have seen. It's a book about modernism, and the great progress coming in the 20th century. I read it in 1998, when it was 100 years old, and it had a special 'millenium is coming' resonance, but I think it'd still be worth reading. It went well with War of the Worlds, as I recall.