I have been gathering together great works from the past centuries.

You can read my previous posts looking at Jules Verne, Aldous Huxley, HG Wells, and I should do one on George Orwell too, but I was looking back to the earlier writers-- before 1900.

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Today I am adding another Book to the Que.

ANTICIPATIONS

of the reaction of mechanical and scientific progress upon human life and thought

https://www.google.com/search?q=hg+wells+anticipations

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I think the reason I have been so obsessed with finding all these books, is that the future they often were describing is here now. We are living in the tomorrow they dreamt about, and our future tomorrows must be dreamt again and again.

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This book has a follow up,

Mankind in the Making (1903)

A companion to Anticipations, concerned with education, childhood, family, social development and the institutions that shape people.

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I am going to read through Anticipations this week,
and then I might start exploring Shakespeare.

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Ok here is another from Jules Verne,

Master of the World

https://www.google.com/search?q=Master+of+the+World+(1904)

I like to start by reading the first paragraph of each chapter. I enjoy re-reading chapters over and over again until it really sinks in. Sometimes the first read through of a book is like seeing a movie for the first time. You don't know what happened until it's over and you can reflect a bit on the experience.

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I. WHAT HAPPENED IN THE MOUNTAINS

If I speak of myself in this story, it is because I have been deeply
involved in its startling events, events doubtless among the most
extraordinary which this twentieth century will witness.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Master+of+the+World+(1904)

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What books have you been reading this past year?
Come back and leave a review when you are done!!

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@Darkflame