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The Parallax View (Short Circuits)The Parallax View (Short Circuits) by S Zizek
Buy new: £8.88 / Used from: £12.77
mind blowingly clever guy's magnus opus and future essential reading for anyone with an interest in metaphysics or a left-wing theory
For Whom the Bell TollsFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
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Hemmingway's masterpiece and an example par excelence of the divided subject
The Wind-up Bird ChronicleThe Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £4.05
six hundred pages where little happens somehow ditracts remarkably little from some of the most fantastically vivid prose i have ever read
Ideology: An IntroductionIdeology: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton
Buy new: £6.64 / Used from: £3.19
witty and genuinely funny without compromising an incredible insightfulness and a thorough explanation to some key ideas
Age of Extremes : The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991Age of Extremes : The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991 by E.J. Hobsbawm
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the 20th century in about five days of reading!
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (Routledge Classics)One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (Routledge Classics) by Herbert Marcuse
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the subversive totalitarian nature of modern capitalism revealed
Moments of Reprieve (Penguin Modern Classics)Moments of Reprieve (Penguin Modern Classics) by Primo Levi
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encapsulates the core of levi's view of human nature and in a way that will make you cry and laugh in equal measures despite the world that it is set in
High FidelityHigh Fidelity by Nick Hornby
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i am rob gordon
Penguin Great Ideas : Civilisation and Its DiscontentsPenguin Great Ideas : Civilisation and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
Buy new: £1.10 / Used from: £0.98
criticize Freud all you want, though if you read this and try to deny at least a fraction of truth in it then you are stunningly naive
Gaia: A New Look at Life on EarthGaia: A New Look at Life on Earth by James Lovelock
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how to understand how we will never be able to understand the complexities of how our planet works as a total system
How to Read Lacan (How to Read)How to Read Lacan (How to Read) by Slavoj Zizek
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lacan is mind boggleing ... zizek is funny.... revealing and interesting without the brain melting and subsequent tears