Finally picked up Grapes of Wrath, and damn is it good. Steinbeck has such beautiful prose when he's not writing southern dialect.
What other classics are still compelling today? If it's any help, I don't really dig Vonnegut, Asimov, and Huxley.
Finally picked up Grapes of Wrath, and damn is it good. Steinbeck has such beautiful prose when he's not writing southern dialect.
What other classics are still compelling today? If it's any help, I don't really dig Vonnegut, Asimov, and Huxley.
Seconding Octavia Butler. Her Seed to Harvest/Patternmaster series is very interesting, if a bit more amateurish than her later stuff, but her Xenogenesis trilogy? Groundbreaking stuff. Really plays around a lot with xenophobia as a psychological/emotional concept, and how it feeds tribalism and racism. Honestly one of the more unique alien species out there too. Nothing else is like the Oankali.