3 Books To Read This Month

31 August 2022

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Animal farm is a short book which through a farm and its inhabiting animals depicts the Russian Revolution on 1917 (references Soviet Communism). The book enacts the communist revolution, it walks through all the stages from all animals being equal to when the egalitarian status of the barn is eradicated and social classes begin to form again. It shows, in the form of a fable, how communism can never work as it is in human nature to aspire power and control, it also conveys how inequality and social classes slowly arise from what used to be an even-handed community.

It is one of George Orwell’s most famous novels which has been categorized in the classics. It is an easy and light way to understand communism as a system and its flaws.

The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferris

The 4 hour work week is a book or rather a guide which helps you find ‘solutions to your 9-5 job’. In other words it teaches you through a series of steps how to reduce your working time as much as possible and continue to monetize. Essentially it is a book about efficiency. Not only does it provide with detailed evidence of how one may achieve this lifestyle but Ferris too provides real life examples to further understanding. In addition, the author too supplies websites, email examples, and other useful tools that he has used throughout his life to achieve his goal of what he calls the ‘4-hour work week’. Although it seems slightly unrealistic for us undergraduates who pursue these 9-5 jobs this book is an incredible read. Included, but not limited to, it teaches you how to become more efficient, how to set important goals, how to maximize benefits and most importantly how to avoid a life where you work ‘over-time’.

Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall

Prisoners of Geography looks at different areas of the world and analyzes how its geographical position has constrained them. It focuses on both the past and the present to, in detail, evaluate the inability of specific regions or countries in the world to rise to power or remain in power. It overall teaches you that states and nations have other restrictions which are not purely political or economically driven.

This book is guaranteed to broaden your knowledge and expand your understanding of how nations fail or survive overtime.