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... – Octavia Butler
(6) A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
(7) Animal Farm – George Orwell
(8) Jennifer Government – Max Barry
(9) The Man in the High Castle – Phillip K. Dick
(10) Herland – Charlotte Perkins Gillman
(11) Genesis - Bernard ... I also thought of Jennifer Government when reading the description of the cover... but the rest of the details don't match up to the plot. Your description of the cover makes me think of Jennifer Government or Keeping it Real, but I haven't read either and I don't know if either plot will match up with your memory. I liked Max Barry's Company, and have Jennifer Government in my TBRs. woohoo, I'd never have guessed that I read speculative fiction! :)) finished Jennifer Government by Max Barry
Category: Speculative Fiction
C2003 320pgs 3stars
I'm not a fan of satire but this one resonated with me. Perhaps because I do work for a huge mega-corporation and I thought some of the things I read here could be plausible someday. I've seen ... 36. Jennifer Government by Max Barry
I had wanted to read this one for a while- it was okay. It was funny in a lot of ways and made me think. Maybe if the book wasn't so hyped up by TONS of people I would have liked it better, but this book has been talked up so much I thought it would be ... Glad to hear you enjoyed Jennifer Government. I recently acquired it, though I'm not including it in my 999. ... was a disappointment. The book had precious little to do with the title. Don't expect much by way of physics here...
Jennifer Government by Max Barry, January, in English
- This was a fun fast-paced read and a pleasant surprise, with several laugh-out-loud moments. (I've also recently ... ... strong female lead ... the individual books are: Starfish, Maelstrom, Behemoth: B-Max, and Behemoth: Seppuku.
Jennifer Government by Max Barry also comes to mind. Remembering a couple I missed:
77. Rolling Thunder by John Varley
78. Atonement by Ian McEwan
79. Jennifer Government by Max Barry
80. Windflower: a Novel by Nick Bantock
81. Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card *re-read
81 total, with 42 re-read ... ... in Hungarian
5. Mishkney Elyon by the Ramchal, November, in English
Science fiction from this decade
1. Jennifer Government by Max Barry, January, in English
2. How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff, February, in English
3. Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks, March, in English
4. ... ... The Girls by Lori Lansens is also on it. Jodi Piccoult seems to appeal to many of the girls at my high school. Jennifer Government is also on the Abe list. Last year's list had James Patterson's The Angel Experiment part of his Maximum Ride series which has been popular with ... >260 If they're still available, I'd love to have The Abortionist's Daughter and Jennifer Government. Thanks! ... for you. I'm in the UK and post anywhere.
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino (good condition)
Jennifer Government by Max Barry (creased spine, otherwise good)
Regeneration by Pat Barker (creased spine, slightly worn edges, good reading copy)
The Abortion ... nothing to do today (I'm all bookshopped out) so I spent the day sitting in a park reading. I finished Jennifer Government (a fun read) and wild-released it this afternoon.
next up: Caught In The Light ... of lies and deceit (as these things do) - it was a little grim but enjoyable (and Goths feature in one scene!)
next up: Jennifer Government
freelunch, I hope you enjoy Jennifer Government! I found it rather entertaining, and also liked his Company and Syrup. Good satire. And you did turn up to the Sydney meetup with a great book, I loved On Stranger Tides! Zombie pirates!
miss-owl, glad to push another book buyer to Better Re ... ... won't have much Internet access while I'm there. I'm taking four unread books with me:
Modern Love by Paul Magrs
Jennifer Government by Max Barry
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Caught In The Light by Robert Goddard
and whichever of them I read I'll wild release ... ... it wouldn't have spoiled it for me if it had been different.
Model Spy, Shannon Greenland: entertaining, but silly.
Jennifer Government, Max Barry: More distopia! This was pretty disturbing to begin with - capitalism literally takes over the world - but settled into being a bit more ... ... it wouldn't have spoiled it for me if it had been different.
Model Spy, Shannon Greenland: entertaining, but silly.
Jennifer Government, Max Barry: More distopia! This was pretty disturbing to begin with - capitalism literally takes over the world - but settled into being a bit more ... Speculative Fiction
1.Jennifer Government by Max Barry (8.9.2009)
2. Nightfall by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg(3/2/2009)
3. Children of Men by P.D. James (3/05/2009)
4. Logan's Run by William ... Just finished no. 46 yesterday: Jennifer Government, which was a fun, fast-paced book. Nothing special, but entertaining.
Still reading Pamela, which might take a while.
Also picked up Beyond the blue event horizon to read yesterday, since I loved Gateway and this is the sequel. Just finished Jennifer Government yesterday, which was a light, fun read and started Beyond the blue event horizon because I read Gateway and loved it and this is the second part in the trilogy. At home I'm reading Jennifer Government, which is a dystopia about a company ruled world. Everyone takes his last name from the company they work for (hence Jennifer Government). There's also John Nike, Hayley McDonalds, etc. Fun premises, but I do get a sort of déjà lu so to speak. It reminds ... Shattering Glass is what resulted when I, Jennifer Government, entered The Glass Castle. Afterward, Cinderella cried As I Lay Dying. In reply, I said, Weep No More My Lady for I am Storming the Gates of Paradise. 73. Jennifer Government by Max Barry
Rating 4.5/5
74. The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman
Rating 5/5
75. The Pinball Theory of Apocalypse: A Novel (P.S.) by Jonathan Selwood
Rating 3.5/5 Trhough Bookmooch there was waiting for me after my holiday:
Jennifer Government by Max Barry
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
2001: a space odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
and Beyond the blue event horizon by Frederik Pohl ... read Nick Bantock, especially The Museum at Purgatory. Oryx and Crake has me hankering for Brave New World and Jennifer Government. The only other (contemporary) author I've ever come across that I think even romotely comes close to matching Atwood's skill at character development ... ... read Nick Bantock, especially The Museum at Purgatory. Oryx and Crake has me hankering for Brave New World and Jennifer Government. The only other (contemporary) author I've ever come across that I think even romotely comes close to matching Atwood's skill at character development ... @32
Heh...I once dropped Jennifer Government in my chicken tikka masala. It's still bright orange in places. :(
I'm the worst eater-and-reader. I said somewhere else, though, that any icky foody marks I leave behind almost make a chart of the times when I was happiest, and most relaxed. Sunk ... ... to stop it. It's also one of the few that has a woman as the main character, especially a woman who isn't fighting. In Jennifer Government and The Traveler, there are leading women, but they are gun-weilding butt-kickers. Offred just is. She's the embodiment of the "Don't call me a ... ... of my favorite authors these days, between his books and his blog.
I realized upon further reflection that I knew about Jennifer Government from back in college, when Nation States, the online game that the author created, was all the rage. The ... I want Jennifer Government, too! I have read Old Man's War, and really liked it.
I agree that this is a great thread. I haven't found many other people that like both science fiction and Jane Austen, so I appreciate that. ... the genre is that there are some amazing dystopias, some very creative ones (Handmaid's Tale, 1984, Brave New World, Jennifer Government)-but after a certain point in time, you keep hoping for something just slightly more creative (I had this problem with the last book I read, The Travele ... ... landscape change as they cross the country, and eventually get where they're going (to Enid, Peter's future wife).
37. *Jennifer Government by Max Barry (321)
I think I put this on my tbr list mostly because of the title, which I found intriguing. And the cover, which I think is ... ... get this cramp out of my shoulder so I can actually turn my head :(
Otherwise, I got two books from the ILL yesterday (Jennifer Government and Gardens of the Moon) so I plan to read all weekend :D
Oh, and watch Serenity, since I finished watching Firefly again yesterday. 16) Angelmass by Timothy Zahn.
17) Jennifer Government, by Max Barry. ... here and there).
#1: Crossfire
#2: Shadow Family
#3: All She Was Worth
#4: Piercing
#5: After Dark
#6: Jennifer Government
Currently I am working on Strangers and Kafka on the Shore, alternating between longer and shorter books as my mood changes.
... Grace and dislike the writing, you probably won't love it as much as I do...I'm an Atwood nut), Oryx and Crake, Jennifer Government, and Brave New World. Yes, I read 1984, too, but by that time, the plot was so well-known to me, it wasn't as interesting as the others. I also ... ... of Secrets by J.K. Rowling, Aug 10, 2007
27. The Tyrannosaurus Prescription by Isaac Asimov, Aug 26, 2007
28. Jennifer Government by Max Barry, Aug 31, 2007
29. Abarat by Clive Barker, Sep 20, 2007
30. Slan by A.E. van Vogt, Oct 23, 2007
31. The World of Carbon ... ... number of emails I've been getting about it, I'd suggest The Golden Compass -plus, it's about to be released as a movie.
Jennifer Government is a good one to examine the effects of a free market-it's a good dystopia tale. And I haven't read it yet, but everything I've read about The Abstinen ... ... just fun as heck to read. And Syrup was not any different. In fact it may be my favorite of his three books, followed by Jennifer Government and Company. The story is of one Michael Holloway, a marketer, who goes by the name of "Scat" selling his new genius plan, freelance, to Coca-Cola. It ... ... doesn't make this explicit), how about The Scheme for Full Employment, Bilton or Yellow Dog? I've always thought Jennifer Government must be set in an alternate universe as well.
...
16. Accelerando by Charles Stross
17. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
18. End Of An Era by Robert J. Sawyer
19. Jennifer Government by Max Barry
20. Robota by Doug Chiang and Orson Scott Card
21. The Prestige by Chistopher Priest
22. Flashforward by Robert J. Sawyer
23. ... 40. Longitude, Dava Sobel
41. a selection of poems, e.e. cummings
42. Jennifer Government, Max Barry
... more with overpopulation and treatment of people in the "developing" world.
TheTwoD’s: have to disagree with you on Jennifer Government. While the ideas behind it were good the writing itself was extremely uncompelling and the corporations end the same place they started, on top! Oh ... KromesTomes: I loved Jennifer Government, great, fast-paced, tongue-firmly-in-cheek, dystopian read.
Don't worry about my sanity or any thoughts of wrist-slashing, I do mix in light reading here and there. It's just that I am somewhat of a political junkie (avid reader of DailyKos) so I like ... I'll second Blindness ... also, if you want to kind of stay on topic, yet still kind of lighten up, you could check out Jennifer Government by Max Barry and The Space Merchants by Pohl/Kornbluth ... 14. Jennifer Government by Max Barry pp 336
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