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Easy to see why this novel is routinely referenced along with “1984” and “Brave New World”.

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A fictional portrayal of an aging revolutionary, this novel is a powerful commentary on the nightmare politics of the troubled 20th century. Born in Hungary in 1905, a defector from the Communist Party in 1938, and then arrested in both Spain and France for his political views, Arthur Koestler writes from a wealth of personal experience...

Thanks for the tag @Lcsmcat ! #7days7books day 3.

Seven books that left a deep impression on me and changed me.

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#cataloging I love the misleading covers of this era.

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#RockinMay #BackintheUSSR
I looked on my solitary bookcase for my Russian books. Darkness at noon was a favourite book ive read a few times, there is the usual suspects of dostoyevsky and bulgakov, and the one im reading now courtesy of a litsy recommend.

This is actually my husband's book but the only thing I could find for #BackInTheUSSR. Looks super interesting, set in a Russian jail during Stalin. I may have to move this up to my TBR shelf... #RockInMay @Cinfhen

Satan, on the contrary, is thin, ascetic and a fanatical devotee of logic. He reads Machiavelli, Ignatius of Loyola, Marx and Hegel; he is cold and unmerciful to mankind, out of a kind of mathematical mercifulness. He is damned always to do that which is most repugnant to him: to become a slaughterer, in order to abolish slaughtering, to sacrifice lambs so that no more lambs may be slaughtered...