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The Jungle is like the opposite of a fun read so it might not be good for this purpose, but the Fun Trivia Fact that everyone utterly fucking missed the point really got under my skin and was a seed of my own leftward move. The idea that this story had such a huge real life impact but in a way that didn't address the actual point of the story at all was super memorable but also non-threatening at the time, it was just a fun bit of american history trivia.