I really enjoyed The Picture of Dorian Gray read by Ben Barns. One of my favourite moments with this book was when I later found out that he actually played Dorian Gray in the motion picture.

Another one of my favourite audiobook moments was hearing Morrie’s voice at the end of Tuesdays with Morrie.

I just finished Sir David Attenborough’s A Life On Our Planet, it also addressed your concerns with humanity but from a scientific point of view. Unlike a fictional novel it presented solutions on how we can fix the disasters we’ve caused. Hope it helps.

You rely on Fictional Novels for the prospect of your “hopes and dreams”?

You’ve been on this thread antagonizing many people for more than 9 hours so far, on Christmas Eve. I think we both know your problem is not with any of the arguments here. Don’t bother replying I’m having you blocked for the sake of your mental health.

They had been right, and they had been wrong, just like everybody else, just like some random author writes some random fictions a hundred years later which could be proven either right or wrong in another hundred years - it’d be unwise for us to take those fictional predictions too seriously. That’s the point.

Agreed. You can find similar descriptions from books written a hundred years ago, about how tough the environment was, how corrupt the human soul was, how bleak the future seemed to be…