I sincerely believe that World War Z (the book, not the atrocious Brad Pitt movie of the same name) would be on high school curricula across most of the US except for its genre. Deep themes. Sophisticated literary devices. Also, zombies.https://twitter.com/mayli/status/968044956186062848 …
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(Importantly: it's not the zombies which are the scary bit, Internets, and it's not the surface-level Walking Dead "Hah, twist, it was humans who were monsters all along", it's the sheer psychological terror of what individuals and societies are willing to do under scarcity.)
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This is the most Patio11 explanation of a nightmare i could possible imagine
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well, I do have this rule and I believe it's a good one (also applies to books, etc)https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/953421631577194496 …
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Taleb has similar thoughts on books:https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/845850657957597184 …
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