I just have a craving here to read a novel that deals with mind control. I was wondering if any of you here can recommend me any books that deal with it.
Len Deighton's The IPCRESS File - Brainwashing Aldous Huxley's Brave New World - Societal conditioning via drugs Philip K. Dick's We Can ERemember It for You Wholesale - the novel Total Recall was based on Larry Niven's World of Ptaavs - what happens if you read the mind of a telepathic Slaver? Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, as Banzai suggested.
Update. Sorry I know it's been a while, but I finally got around to reading one of those books it's hard to find books at my library and also with the condition I'm in. Cogito I don't know how you reccommended Brave New World. I don't understand a bit that I'm reading. I'm up to chapter 4 and still don't have a clue.
Brave New World is about conditioning (brainwashing) on a societal level through drugs and propaganda.
Brave New World isn't especially difficult to read, as I remember it...if you can't read that, definitely don't even attempt Clockwork Orange....
I wrote a two freakin' essays on Brave New World... If actual mind-control is what you're looking for, Brave New World probably isn't the thing. If you're interested in any of the societal conditioning whatevers, I could show any of you the essay. 10th grade English honors paper--I may not have taken it seriously