Reddit reviews The Tortilla Curtain (Penguin Books with Reading Guides)

The Tortilla Curtain or The Brothers Karamazov (linked version is by far my favorite translation). The former deals with race and class relations (in a frequently humorous way), the latter is an absolute classic that deals with more issues that I can list. In the case of The Brothers Karamazov do be sure to pick a good tranlsation as there are some good and very poor ones.

How about just cutting funding for bullshit departments? I went to a public uni renowned for being leftist and took chemistry, computer science, bioinformatics, physics, math courses and politics never came up even once in any of them.

The university-mandated general education course about "changing world perspectives", on the other hand... Well, this should be a good indication.

Hi.

T.C. Boyle is similar to Chuck P but better in MANY ways -- also a bit more literary. He writes a lot of really great fiction, usually with a social message intertwined.

I recommend

1. Tortilla Curtain (about an Illegal Immigrant and Middle Class guy and how their lives become suddenly intertwined),
   
   
   
2. A friend of the earth About an aging environmental terrorist
   
3. Talk Talk About a deaf woman who gets her identity stolen.
   
   
   
   
   

The Tortilla Curtain