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... swept away with enthusiasm for that book and wishing everyone interested in the subject had the opportunity to read it. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin was mentioned by Ursula LeGuin in an essay, I think in The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction, as being both a ... ...
5. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
6. Palm Sunday
7. Mason and Dixon
8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
9. We
10. Mumbo Jumbo
11. A Void
12. Black Boy
13. On the Road
14. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
15. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
16. Fordlandi ... 391. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin 12/04/09
392. The Palace of Dreams by Ismail Kadare 12/05/09
393. The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren 12/06/09
394. Herzog by Saul Bellow 12/07/09
395. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch 12/0 ... ... Children of Men but have never read the book. The movie was fairly interesting which usually means a good was behind it ;-) We also looks very interesting so I have added both to the "Possibilities" section so I don't forget about them.
>17: I will definitely be looking into that book too! At ... ... Rising
12. Timothy Zahn - The Last Command
13. Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho
14. Yevgeny Zamyatin - We
15. Ron Hansen - Desperadoes
16. Louise Rennison - Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging
17. Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
18. Chuck P ... ... was truly atrocious.
03. Titus Groan - the entire trilogy really is fabulous, should be a salon read someday soon.
04. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin - I'm sorry, but forget 1984 & Brave New World, We is the dystopia to top all dystopias. '84, except for that iconic opening sentence, bores me. ... I have read We, and really enjoyed it. There's no one like Russians for really dark authoritarian reads. I read We last year and after hearing how wonderful it was, was severely disappointed. Had I read it forty years before having read Brave New World and Animal Farm rather than forty years after, I might have a different opinion, but to me it's simply the Ur-novel of the dystopia sub-genre and ... ... the future than Orwell's riff on Stalinism in 1984 which I think he also "adapted'' into English from the French novel We.
Around the World in 365 Days
1. Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Sweden)
2. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Russia)
3. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (France)
4. Black Ice by Hans Werner Kettenbach (Germany)
5. Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (Aus ... ... )
7. (1970 - 1980)
8. (1980 - 1990)
9. (1990 - 2000)
10. (2000 - 2010)
Why were the 1920s such a good decade!
1920 - We by Yevgeny Zamyatin Or The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton or Quiet of the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
1930 - The Emperor of Dreams by Clark As ... ... it's so subjective. I'll ignore the rule if the book keeps catching my eye. I haven't read What is What but I liked How We Are Hungry, which I really enjoyed, which is also why I ignored that rule. Who else did you like?
... her poetry and am beginning to like her. Guess someone else didn't, because the copies are in pristine condition.
How We are Hungry by Dave Eggars
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman edited ... ... of Shadows
Among the Hidden
The Declaration
The City of Ember
We
Childhood Rereads
Into the Land of the Unicorns
Little House in the Big Woods
The Indian in the Cupboard
The Fairy Rebel
Vampire Diarie ... ... /strike>
6.Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
7.The Giver by Lois Lowry
8. We by Yevgenry Zamyatin
9. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers? ... Mann
…The Complete Butcher’s Tales, Rikki DuCornet
…The Lottery & other stories, Shirley Jackson
…How We Are Hungry, David Eggers
…Collected Stories, John O’Hara
…Selected Stories, Alice Munro
…The Collected Stories, Arthur C. Clarke
… ... i'm still reading Hungry by Alethea Eason due to hectic from worng. >.<
*Touchstone wrong* ... 2 Cities by Charles Dickens
Werewolves in their Youth by Michael Chabon
Selected Stories by Rudyard Kipling
How we are Hungry by Dave Eggers
Drown by Junot Diaz
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters ... in their Youth by Michael Chabon
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
A tale of 2 cities by Charles Dickens
How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers
Drown by Junot Diaz
Selected Stories by Rudyard Kipling
... portion of the rest in history and reference works.
Of the books cited in earlier posts on this topic, I've read Eggers' How We Are Hungry and Gilgamesh and have The Time Traveler's Wife and Dune on my 'to read' list (along with about 500 other books). At my current reading rate, I've ... ... might see:
Dave Eggers
Written:
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
You Shall Know Our Velocity
How We Are Hungry
Edited:
The Future Dictionary of America
The Better of McSweeney's, Volume 1
etc...
And each person who co-authored/edited would get the same ... Hey there everyone. I'm a student at UT, lived in Texas almost ten years now.
I'd recommend to everyone Dave Eggers's How We Are Hungry, which is a perfect introduction to his style of writing, which, in my opinion, is almost flawless and brilliant.
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