Ever read a book that everyone says is fantastic 'you have to read it' and at the end you don't get it, the message doesn't resonate for you. True story, I read the Alchemist by Coelho many years ago back in England all my girl friends loved it, I thought there must be something wrong with me so I read it again - and still nothing.
I read an excerpt of The Dreamseller by Cury (out in Feb 2011 full review then) in that excerpt which you can read online - just google Dreamseller - an academic is about to throw himself off a skyscraper in Manhattan when this mysterious unkempt stranger talks his way onto the roof and using the sociology professor's training against him picks apart his arguements and saves his life. When I was reading the arc, key points resonated with me, we - as a society - do worship money and celebrity, we standardize beauty and pigeon hole people by religion, ethnic group or sexual orientation and live our lives at one hundred miles an hour. Our academic establishments squash critical thinking and turn out predatory machines instead of people capable of rational thought. I get it, I'm inspired by it. This may be fiction but it is also great social commentary.
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