"JOB: A Comedy of Justice" by Robert Heinlein
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsing
Ask HN: What is the most mind blowing book you've ever read?
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#62War with the Newts (1936) by Karel Čapek (of R.U.R. fame). Classical sci-fi novel and political satire in which a new intelligent breed of Newts are taking over the world and no-one realizes before it's too late. Still relevant today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_with_the_Newts
Seconded. Great political science-fiction!
Re: Ask HN: What is the most mind blowing book you've ever read?
#63"I want to find the absolutely crazy-to-grasp book of all times."
Gödel, Escher, Bach - An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadter. Anytime I start reading a story which contains recursiveness my mind will feel warped and stuck in a loop at times.
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#64Fooled By Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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#65Military Nanotechnology: Potential Applications and Preventive Arms Control - Jürgen Altmann
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#66The Denial of Death by Becker. (The discussions of homosexuality are outdated but the rest is amazing).
The Wisdom of Insecurity by Watts helped center my adolescence.
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#67The Feynman lectures - http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/
For me it consistently produces one OMG or more per chapter.
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#68Hofstadter - GEB - for sure
The Malazan Book of the Fallen (10 volumes) - Stephen Erikson - redefines impenetrable
Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks - master of the interwoven narrative
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#69Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
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#70Dan Simmonds' Hyperion/The Fall of Hyperion. Astonishingly good SF.
His last name is Simmons. And the Hyperion Cantos is an excellent series. His other books are worth reading too: Summer of Night, The Terror.