Kim
1901 · 240 pages
Kim, a white orphan of the Lahore streets, serves two masters: a Tibetan lama searching for a sacred river, and the British officers who train him for the spy war against Russia.
★ 6.6
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Dialectic of Enlightenment
1944 · 282 pages
Reason set out to free humanity from myth and produced new forms of domination instead. The philosophers Adorno and Horkheimer, exiles in California, coined the culture industry to name entertainment that manufactures obedience.
★ 6.9
Siddhartha
1922 · 132 pages
Siddhartha leaves home to seek enlightenment, meets the Buddha and declines to follow him, then spends years chasing money and a courtesan. What finally teaches him is a river and its ferryman.
★ 7.2