Journey to the West
Journey to the West is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en. It is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. In English-speaking countries, "Monkey", Arthur Waley's popular abridged translation is well known.
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985) is a book by educator Neil Postman. The book's origins lay in a talk Postman gave to the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1984. He was participating in a panel on George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and the contemporary world. In the introduction to his book, Postman said that the contemporary world was better reflected by Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", whose public was oppressed by their addiction to amusement, than by Orwell's work, where they were oppressed by state control.