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Stephen King's The Stand. I'm slightly behind the times, I suppose.
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I loved Snow Crash - I think it was meant more as satire of the direction the cyberpunk genre was taking. I mean, the main character is a katana-wielding pizza delivery guy named Hiro Protagonist. Stephenson definitely meant to stretch some of the tropes to completely absurd levels, but the world and characters are so enthralling that you tend to forget about how completely nuts it is. And it meshes a bunch of Stephenson's favorite topics of (anthropology, crypto, linguistics, etc). Fantastic book.
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After Charlottesville, I grabbed Mein Kampf by that Austrian guy. Forced myself to finish it. It really is a slog, even if you manage to skip over all of the antisemitic bullshit he's so famous for. It just rambles in sections and some of it, despite all the help he had putting it together, is incoherent garbage. I am positive most of the people who are part of the current neo-nazi/alt-right/white whatever/4-chan kekistan poo poo have never read it. If they have, they just skimmed and really did not put energy into comprehension (which is funny because the author hates on people who do exactly that). It's totally clear that the author considered himself an intellectual despite sucking at school, was mad at his dad, then had a lovely time in Vienna, held lovely jobs, never got laid, and blamed everything around him for all of it. Sound familiar? I'm following up with Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich right now since it has been on my shelf forever and I'll now have some context as I make it through the first few chapters.
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