The Dream Hotel - Strange Land Book Club 7

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In this episode, we dive into Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel — a sharp, thought-provoking novel that blends imagination with unsettling realism.Join us as we unpack our impressions of the book and explore how its vision of AI, capitalism, and power imbalance mirrors our own world. From questions of who controls technology to what it means to be human in a data-driven age, this conversation looks at the future through the lens of literature — and asks whether it’s really as distant as it seems.Tune in to reflect, question, and maybe even dream a little differently.Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠YouTube ⁠⁠⁠and ⁠⁠⁠TikTok ⁠⁠⁠for more pictures and videos of all things books that we discuss in the podcast!Intro music by Leonardo Granados

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