/lit/ - Literature

Best Insight Porn books?

Gladwell is obviously the king of this genre. Freakonomics and Guns, Germs and Steel also seem to be very popular ones.

What are your favorites?

I know this genre is very controversial, but I find the ideas are generally worth exploring, even if you disagree with the author. They make you think at least.

>>3751261
woah.

I'll post something:

As-a-matter-of -fact, chasms sprouted inwards all amongst that expanse: their collusion with virtuality creating perfect crimes of their construction--attempting to trace their residue would be futile--existing as invisible black holes; nothing existing with a flame would know who came out at the end of it, nor where or how...if it were possible there was an anywhere at all.
Actually, in a stranger matter-of-fact, the findings indicated the non-existence of an end--in some sense, the mind of the subject encountered a kind of infinity--and the only indication was in limbo. The ramifications of the finding have been gradual. Strangest, in what would seem like a throwaway sidestep of a scenario, we've found that what started out as ditches, were in fact cells en-masse indicating an infinite nothing.

How do you fix the fantasy genre, /lit/? Why has it been so bad for so long?