Can you guess the title and author of the novel depicted in the picture?
DIFFICULTY : Hard
CLUE : "Soma" you will have a difficult time figuring this one out.
After reading this novel, this author instantly became one of my favorite authors. His writing style and word choice, along with his compelling storytelling, just spoke to me on so many different levels. It was not long after I finished reading this novel I searched for other works from this same author, and I read these books as well with the same feverish giddiness.
What attracted me so much about this author? Well, to be honest, it was the author's insight into the human psyche and undeniable understanding of human behavior. One of the the scenes described in the novel above is when a character is on television and how the people, not knowing what they were watching, could not pull themselves away from the drama unfolding before them, which I recognized as the birth of “reality” television. When this novel was written, the television was in its infancy, and only a mere fraction of the public owned one, but this author predicted the human desire to view other humans' drama, their pain and suffering, their joy, and not in a fictional setting, but in actual time. Now, the reality shows we have today are anything but “reality,” because we know they are scripted to a point or the producers use tactics to create the results they desire, but we are not far away from the scene depicted in this novel from actually becoming a reality of television and just as this idea saddened, and ultimately enraged, this author, I as well fear the day when unscripted, unprompted “reality” is the entertainment of choice.
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