I'll repost my suggestion from the last "great reads" thread on HN. ---------------------------------------- The Bet by Anton Chekhov You can read it here: http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Bet.shtml It shouldn't take more than 10 minutes. It's so fantastically misanthropic, I cannot recommend it enough. The polemic against society at the end is just epic.
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