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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,324,262 ratings — published 2011
My Best Friend's Exorcism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 40 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.92 — 156,674 ratings — published 2016
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.62 — 103,887 ratings — published 1985
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,494,890 ratings — published 1985
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,271,071 ratings — published 2012
Malibu Rising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,326,249 ratings — published 2021
Paper Girls, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.88 — 112,353 ratings — published 2016
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.28 — 763,420 ratings — published 1982
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.93 — 88,418 ratings — published 1987
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.99 — 750,789 ratings — published 1987
Watchmen (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.39 — 600,841 ratings — published 1987
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.89 — 371,484 ratings — published 1984
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.80 — 372,482 ratings — published 1991
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.14 — 372,879 ratings — published 1989
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.04 — 570,526 ratings — published 1985
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.10 — 556,411 ratings — published 1984
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.97 — 714,434 ratings — published 1989
White Noise (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.86 — 129,568 ratings — published 1985
Atmosphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.32 — 866,639 ratings — published 2025
Matilda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,131,090 ratings — published 1988
Tell the Wolves I'm Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.02 — 150,527 ratings — published 2012
The Impossible Fortress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.79 — 12,944 ratings — published 2017
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,663,760 ratings — published 1988
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.09 — 716,389 ratings — published 1983
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.94 — 554,373 ratings — published 1985
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.28 — 685,053 ratings — published 2012
Bright Lights, Big City (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.81 — 37,830 ratings — published 1984
Firestarter (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.92 — 250,103 ratings — published 1980
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.14 — 401,389 ratings — published 1980
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.15 — 232,749 ratings — published 1985
Brat: An '80s Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.61 — 15,942 ratings — published 2021
The Lover (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.70 — 76,723 ratings — published 1984
Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.44 — 190,945 ratings — published 2020
Like a Love Story (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 10 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.26 — 16,109 ratings — published 2019
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Scary Stories, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.06 — 73,572 ratings — published 1981
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,489,477 ratings — published 1985
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.08 — 482,905 ratings — published 2021
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,257,025 ratings — published 2017
Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.07 — 378,993 ratings — published 1981
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.00 — 80,089 ratings — published 1981
Cujo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 80s)
avg rating 3.80 — 327,051 ratings — published 1981
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.26 — 594,838 ratings — published 1988
Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.28 — 460,400 ratings — published 1986
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as 80s)
avg rating 4.28 — 308,697 ratings — published 1989
“The Government set the stage economically by informing everyone that we were in a depression period, with very pointed allusions to the 1930s. The period just prior to our last 'good' war. ... Boiled down, our objective was to make killing and military life seem like adventurous fun, so for our inspiration we went back to the Thirties as well. It was pure serendipity. Inside one of the Scripter offices there was an old copy of Doc Smith's first LENSMAN space opera. It turned out that audiences in the 1970s were more receptive to the sort of things they scoffed at as juvenilia in the 1930s. Our drugs conditioned them to repeat viewings, simultaneously serving the ends of profit and positive reinforcement. The movie we came up with stroked all the correct psychological triggers. The fact that it grossed more money than any film in history at the time proved how on target our approach was.'
'Oh my God... said Jonathan, his mouth stalling the open position.
'Six months afterward we ripped ourselves off and got secondary reinforcement onto television. We pulled a 40 share. The year after that we phased in the video games, experimenting with non-narcotic hypnosis, using electrical pulses, body capacitance, and keying the pleasure centers of the brain with low voltage shocks. Jesus, Jonathan, can you *see* what we've accomplished? In something under half a decade we've programmed an entire generation of warm bodies to go to war for us and love it. They buy what we tell them to buy. Music, movies, whole lifestyles. And they hate who we tell them to. ... It's simple to make our audiences slaver for blood; that past hasn't changed since the days of the Colosseum. We've conditioned a whole population to live on the rim of Apocalypse and love it. They want to kill the enemy, tear his heart out, go to war so their gas bills will go down! They're all primed for just that sort of denouemment, ti satisfy their need for linear storytelling in the fictions that have become their lives! The system perpetuates itself. Our own guinea pigs pay us money to keep the mechanisms grinding away. If you don't believe that, just check out last year's big hit movies... then try to tell me the target demographic audience isn't waiting for marching orders. ("Incident On A Rainy Night In Beverly Hills")”
― Seeing Red
'Oh my God... said Jonathan, his mouth stalling the open position.
'Six months afterward we ripped ourselves off and got secondary reinforcement onto television. We pulled a 40 share. The year after that we phased in the video games, experimenting with non-narcotic hypnosis, using electrical pulses, body capacitance, and keying the pleasure centers of the brain with low voltage shocks. Jesus, Jonathan, can you *see* what we've accomplished? In something under half a decade we've programmed an entire generation of warm bodies to go to war for us and love it. They buy what we tell them to buy. Music, movies, whole lifestyles. And they hate who we tell them to. ... It's simple to make our audiences slaver for blood; that past hasn't changed since the days of the Colosseum. We've conditioned a whole population to live on the rim of Apocalypse and love it. They want to kill the enemy, tear his heart out, go to war so their gas bills will go down! They're all primed for just that sort of denouemment, ti satisfy their need for linear storytelling in the fictions that have become their lives! The system perpetuates itself. Our own guinea pigs pay us money to keep the mechanisms grinding away. If you don't believe that, just check out last year's big hit movies... then try to tell me the target demographic audience isn't waiting for marching orders. ("Incident On A Rainy Night In Beverly Hills")”
― Seeing Red
“Screws fall out all the time. The world's an imperfect place.”
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