I have deep passionate love for profound nonsense.
You might have no idea what I am talking about, till you have truly touched it, it is an unknown joy. Lots of people like to characterize things in rigid boxes of categories a world of either or thinking. Something is either serious or silly. This mode of thinking implies serious things are informative and silly things are frivolous.
I think my first memory of profound nonsense I came in contact was the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. A friend recommended it to me after I was complaining about the formulaic, lecturing, pedantic nature of many books I was reading in High school.
This book turned all things literary on its ear. The main character was not particularly special, the plot was aimless and the goals were simple but hard to execute. The character has to react to a totally new reality that still had the mundane complaints of the world we live in. You end up realizing we are all special, lazy but wanting to be more and capable of extreme things. Life can be an adventure if you decide to see it that way and a properly brewed cup of tea is a beautiful thing to be savored and admired.
In my love of this genre there is a few writers, and my favorite for the past few years is Jasper Fforde. Yes, there are two "f"s and there is an "e" at the end auto-correct butchers it all the time. He just came out with a new book called The Constant Rabbit.
Ok, it has been a year, my to be read pile is a mess. But the timing of reading it for me was perfect. It is about what would happen in society if suddenly a few animals, mostly rabbits became humanoid. Where they could talk and live among us.
When you think about us, as a species and how we handle people who are different then us it gets apparent that there are problems. It ends up how institutions and systems subtly contribute to species-ism aka, racism and sexism.
It is a story that highlights prejudices and bias with a humorous story of an infatuation and a man trying to keep his roof over his head while fighting internally with ethics and the rules of society around him.
Humorous and silly situations but rapt with context and pithy observations. If you are mood for this genre check him out.
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