The truth of America is far more subtle than you've been led to believe.

This is a wonderful land full of amazing people. Unfortunately those people have had less and less control over the destiny of the nation. This began in earnest with the rise of the robber barons of the late 19th century, although the myth of America was tarnished from the beginning with the concessions toward the slave-holding south.

My advice is to seek out an unmediated view of the world around you. Find the local DIY kids who are putting on basement rock shows. Get out of the suburbs. Talk to people on the street. Find the subversive American authors that speak to you; Kurt Vonnegut, Ken Kesey and Joseph Heller did it for me at 16.

Don't let yourself be isolated. The internet is a lot of fun, but the real world is far more edifying.

u/Aoibhell · 1 point r/RandomActsofMakeup

Congrats on your new job! In retail, part time will often lead to full time if you're good at your job.

So can the book be nonfiction? The most interesting book I've read is called Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin. Not only are there ridiculous amounts of animal facts, but her explanation of how autism relates to how animals think (the author herself is autistic).

Another very interesting (but very dark) nonfiction book is When Rabbit Howls by Truddi Chase. It's about a woman with 99 different personalities, and the trauma she endured throughout her life. The cool thing about it is that it's autobiographical. .. you can actually notice the changes in personality as she wrote the book. Names are sometimes spelled differently and the passages just kind of change in mood on occasion. So fascinating. ..

On those lines, one of my favorite fictional books of all time is One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. Even if you've seen the movie, the book is very different because it is from the point of view of an american indian, who thinks that everything and everyone are machines. Such a cool classic!

u/eating_your_food · 1 point r/booksuggestions

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest might be something for you. It is written from the perspective of a ~~psychotic~~ schizophrenic patient.

u/WisekillyWabbit · 1 point r/AskReddit

The Dark Crystal,
Taxi Driver,
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,(also read this one.)

u/lmartks · 1 point r/books

I couldn't stand LOTR either. It just dragged on and on. I absolutely love The Hobbit. It's much shorter with way fewer of the tedious descriptions. You might also like Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. If you want to go the nonfiction route, maybe try Hell's Angels. It's about the two years Hunter S. Thompson spent living with the Hell's Angels in the mid '60s. It's crazy and awesome.

u/dogs_and_dogs · 1 point r/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

If you haven't read this one already, please, please, please read this book. This book is an amazing perspective at today's society. It's powerful, almost psychedelic at some points. All in all, it is an amazing book.

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