Funny you should mention that because I have that book right now after I absolutely loved Pirenesi. My wife makes fun of me for having a type when it comes to books, and this is probably why.

I like the crazy footnotes in House of Leaves and Infinite Jest. I really like going down the rabbit hole on weird tangents. I also like the bizarre side stories in Catch 22 and Gravity's Rainbow, they really made WW2 feel huge, unwieldy and strange which created a super cool setting.

Sounds exactly like the stats on mid range jumpers in basketball. Thankfully even with analytics basketball people generally understand that an uncontested mid range jumper is better than a contested lay up for someone who's good at them.

Franz Fanon is an interesting one in this context. When he wrote the Wretched of the Earth, it was in the context of colonialism. It was effective because it's solution was simple, to end colonialism kill the colonizers.

I'm not sure how well that applies in the current context because something like "Eat the Rich" has to be far more nuanced than the Bolshevik movement to really help people.