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I need book recommendations
This is for my English class. Here is the criteria:
“For those of you wondering what I mean when I say “book,” your selection must be nonfiction, at least 200 pages long, and published within in the last five years. To give you a better sense of the kind of nonfiction I’m referring to, here’s a list of genres that WILL NOT work for this project: autobiography, biography, memoir, self-help, how-to, history, religion and spirituality, or textbook. The book you select must address a current issue and the author(s) must take a clear position on the issue, which is defended over the course of the book. Below are some appropriate books that previous 202 students have selected for their final project:
-Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture—and What We Can Do About It (2015)
-Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking (2013)
-Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism (2011)
-The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010)
-Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics (2008)”
“You’re encased in a disastrous matrix of fear and loathing. You’re just a function. You’re just a function of the universe. You think you’re free. You have no more freedom than a cell on your body. The universe isn’t a democracy. It’s a monarchy. You’re just a function. The closest you can get to freedom is anonymity. Fame is the worst prison of them all. Because then people have ideas about you and ideas about your life. And if you’re not what they expect then they will fuck you up. Kanye West is the biggest prisoner on this planet. Your only chance at freedom is to stay on the fringes like me. Burn all your bridges. Who cares? You’re all lying to each other. You all hate each other more than you love each other.“