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Kallocain is a 1940 novel similar in theme to 1984. In English there only seems to be US edition in print. ... to Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke and Heinlein (excepting the late novels), but that's my problem I guess.
When it comes to 1984, Brave New World, and so forth, I persist, though I assume one could come up with other classic slip stream that while not out of print could use some hype in SF ... ... series is to get worthy classics that has been out of print back into print. That's not really an issue with books like 1984, and not with the grand so-called masters ( ;-) ) either. ... 75 books.
However, if they are going up to a hundred, I would love to see some of the mainstream SF classics there, like 1984, Brave New World, some of the older classic authors that have been missed, like Issac Asimov, and some of the newer classics, like Neuromancer. I also think that ... Godel, Escher, Bach is actually a good one for him. He's a math/philosophy person. Also, he just did read 1984. He's got a library job for the summer so he's reading quite a bit. ... But a more subtle example would be the re-reading of books that had a big impact on me when I was a teenager, for example, 1984 (which actually, at the time, I was so appalled by the outcome, I didn't think I could ever re-read it), or Jane Eyre, both of which left me with completely ... I started 1984 but I simply cannot get through that book... I since read The Pythagorean Solution and started Bringing Down the House - I'm a big fan of blackjack.
I still have Artemis Fowl, the Opal Deception, French Women Don't Get Fat, and Lip Lock coming up... talk about ... Oops, double post. ... Purple
I know there were a lot more in my high school career, but I can't remember now! I know I read Animal Farm, 1984, Brave New World and Lord of the Flies but I don't think any of them were for class. ... in cellars, scribbling messages on walls, recognizing one another by codewords or by special movements of the hand." 1984
;-) I finished Absolute Power and started 1984 but I just can't get myself to read it. I started and finished the Pythagorean Solution in the meantime and will pick up my next Artemis Fowl tonight ... and linguistic relativism) states that language determines cognitive processes (consider newspeak in Orwell's 1984. A weak version may be described as positing that language influences cognition - there has generally been more clear evidence for this version.
In my opinion, the ... 1984: George Orwell ...
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Thought crime does not entail death; thoughtcrime IS death.
-- Winston Smith, "Winston's Diary", in George Orwell, 1984. ... Fowl: The Eternity Code just last week. Started David Baldacci's Absolute Power - not really YA.
Next on my shelf is 1984 and probably the fourth Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception.
I finished Eragon last week as well - didn't care so much for it. But I might pick up Eldest. Haven't ... So, I was asked to review either Brave New World or 1984. Since the first was a quick read and the second was one I haven't actually read before, I decided to read them both and get a view of some classic dystopia novels side by side. Here are my reviews for ... count for June :o)
I'm starting David's Baldacci's Absolute Power tonight.. hhmm, still June though!
Next I've got 1984 and I'll probably pick up Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception.
I finished Eragon a few days ago. Didn't like it too much - I noticed it was on a few "wish-I'd-never ... 16. Unwind
This book was truly amazing!!! Anyone who liked 1984 would most likely like this book (I know I did =) ... Sawtelle, The Wednesday Sisters, The Red Scarf, Falling Man, and last but not least for my daughter's summer reading 1984. Oh it felt so good to be in a bookstore again! #25 Love Story - Erich Segal
#26 1984 - George Orwell #25 Love Story - Erich Segal
#26 1984 - George Orwell ... Hood
2. Before I die
3. Darkness Creeping
4. Dread Locks
5. Duckling Ugly
6. Battle Dress
7. 1984
8. What Happened to Cass McBride?
9. What Are You Afraid of?
10. Dead Girls Don't Write Letters
11. Beastly
12. Hate You (Graham McNamee, ... tjsjohanna, I think you need to read Brave New World. Or 1984. I know, that probably is against the rules, but I couldn't decide. Okay, the first.
As you might have guessed, I am new to this game. I think I have it figured out, though. In my catalog, generally anything that I have not ... 21. 1984 by George Orwell
Started The Wednesday Sisters. ... no matter how old. I found that was true with some other sci-fi/dystopian novels recently read Brave new World and 1984 and a horror classic Dr. jekyll and Mr. Hyde. These are fun reads but still relevant.
Wish I could take your sci-fi class!!! ... Wow, a fellow candy caner! That's awesome. I love meeting people with similar taste in books! =)
The scary thing about 1984 is how easily I can see many of the things described by Orwell actually happen, and that much of what he forsaw has already happened, to some degree. ... it on my misspent youth). I wonder if there is a book that everyone in this group has read? Or which one comes closest. Nineteen Eighty-four? Catcher in the Rye? The Great Gatsby? Jane Eyre? Finished 1984, and started reading Girl With the Pearl Earring. ... many of the books you've mentioned) and my first name is Ruth. (I love that song by the White Stripes!)
I just finished 1984 not too long ago -- my second read -- and loved it. It didn't resonate much for me when I read it in high school, but reading it post-9/11, it's very frightening ... 34) 1984 by George Orwell
I've been meaning to read this one for quite some time now, but only got around to it now. Such a sad and depressing tale, and a frightning one at that! I must admit; It's made me a bit paranoid.. Overall a great, very interesting and thoughtprovocing read. 19. Eleven on Top by Janet Evanovich
20. Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich
Started 1984 and I agree I can't believe I hadn't picked this up sooner. Once done with 1984 im thinking of starting The Wednesday Sisters. I've recently heard about Cory Doctorow's Little Brother, which is sort of a YA version of 1984, but set in near-future PATRIOT Act style San Francisco. #197: I loved The Pillars of the Earth!
I just finished Saturday by Ian McEwan, and am bout to start reading 1984. It will be my first time with 1984 I was supposed to read it in school and at the time just didn't get to it. I have a feeling it will be one that I will really like. I have read many of the LT reviews on it and it sounds great. Will this be your first time through 1984? I just read it for the first time and wondered why it took me so long I feel like I know this one. And I'm pretty sure it's not 1984, but the Doctor quote has a similar sort of creepy penetrating eyes behind the face everyone's supposed to trust vibe. (And anyway, it sounds American.) ... Brother' (a program title I've always found slightly sinister - I wonder if the person who came up with the title ever read 1984?!) - the next thing on being reality TV concentration camps. The story centers around two women and their relationship; one a brutish prison guard and the second a ... ... reading Eleven on Top felt like I needed some humor to keep me going. I think once im done with that I will dig into 1984. In from the library;
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
1984 by George Orwell
Saturday by Ian McEwan ... Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (I think this one only works if you've read it as a teenager though).
Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell.
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (though I haven't liked anything else of his I'd read). ... View by E.M. Forster
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London
... for class. ;) Seriously, most of what I have read this year has been for school, including the two books that I re-read, 1984 and Fahrenheit 451. Only 2 ½ books (I am still working on the ½) have been outside of class work and three classes that I have taken have not added any books to ... By the way, 1984 is on the list twice.
So far I have read:
THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1984 by George Orwell (6)
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger (6)
THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck (5)
CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller (5)
LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov (5)
BRAVE NEW WOR ... Well, going off the hints... 1984? I just finished We; it was really great. It had a lot of influence on Orwell for 1984 especially and it's a very wrenching page-turner. Wow. ... tristesse - Francoise Sagan
23. The go-between - L. P. Hartley
24. The catcher in the rye - J. D. Salinger
25. 1984 - George Orwell
26. The little prince - Antoine de Saint Euxpery
27. Good morning, midnight - Jean Rhys
28. Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
29. Brave new world - ... ...party like it's 1999.
...read Nineteen Eighty-Four, and ponder if it is indeed an accurate prediction of that year.
... prepare for a Y2K doomsday scenario. No one has mentioned 1984 yet?
EDIT: Sorry, looking at the thread title, not the post. ... of the Rose is very good. From the N's I also think that two dystopian novels are also very good: Never Let Me Go and Nineteen Eighty-four. ... Waiting For Godot, because I think it's appropriate for my life right now.
#162 It took me three tries to read 1984, but I'm so glad I did - it's worth it. ...
70. White Oleander by Janet Fitch 446 pages
71. Girl with the pearl earring by Tracy Chevalier 233 pages
72. 1984 by George Orwell 256 pages
73. House of sand and fog by Andre Dubus III 365 pages' I really wish this book were longer but enjoyed it just the same.
74. ... ... Twilight (should happen within the next day or so), I'm going to keep working through Owen Meany, and then try for either 1984 or Something Wicked This Way Comes. ... Twilight (should happen within the next day or so), I'm going to keep working through Owen Meany, and then try for either 1984 or Something Wicked This Way Comes. ... years ago, and wondering if their thoughts and reactions were similar to mine.
This was actually my second time reading 1984. I read it ten years ago, when I was 16, and didn't like it. I don't think I really understood it; I was too innocent to appreciate the dystopian themes. I enjoyed ... ... for not exposing me to more of these but the offset is that I think I get more from them now.
#5, First time through 1984 also? Did you like it? I finished this one up within the last year also.
30. 1984 by George Orwell
31. The Stealers of Dreams by Steve Lyons
32. The Art of Destruction by Stephen Cole
33. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 30. 1984 by George Orwell
31. The Stealers of Dreams by Steve Lyons
32. The Art of Destruction by Stephen Cole
33. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold ... is important. Orwell reviewed this book and was impressed by it.
I almost suspect that We sewed the seeds for 1984 in Orwell's mind. ... bulletin board where everything could be posted. That would be truly edifying for patrons.
I once checked out the book 1984, and there was a class picture of a high schooler ... from 1984.
Growing up, I read a lot of my parents books. At the end of The Front Runner, when it gets *really ... I'm expanding my extra credit categories again.
Extra Credit: Dystopia
1. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell ****
2. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess ****½
3. The Road by Cormac McCarthy ***
4. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro ***
5. The Castle by Franz Kafka **
... ... I like him for the most part. And he had nice things to say about George Orwell in the introduction he wrote to my copy of Nineteen-Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. But this is such a quick read --really, if I hadn't been interrupted I could have read it in a little over an hour. Definitely worth ... ... :) My only problem with 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 ... #60
There are some SF stories that have become "high literature", even though they are science fiction, such as 1984 or Brave New World. Who knows what else might become high literature in fifty years time? ... it all day...
As for Brave New World, I think I probably would have liked it more if I'd read it when I tackled 1984 in 9th grade. I remember liking the latter, although it was never a favorite, and I've been meaning to reread it to see if it holds up. Hope you like Point Counter P ... ... Makes me smile :)
Am also sorry you were disappointed by Brave New World - I read it about the same time as 1984 and Lord of the Flies, which did both, it is true, have a bigger impact, but nonetheless, it made a big impression on me, so I find it sad when people don't enjoy it. ... I read Animal Farm and 1984 some years ago, and they were really shocking to me. And so was Brave New World. It looks like these books are going to become constantly more relevant. Unforetunately !!! ... for Karen Blixen)
Of Mice and Men (long ago, favorite)
The Grapes of Wrath
Animal Farm (favorite)
La Peste
1984 (favorite)
The Grass is Singing (long ago)
Molloy
Malone meurt
The Old Man and the Sea (long ago)
Go Tell It on the Mountain (long ago)
Lasso rundt ... I guess this is the opposite of what's being asked for here, but I just finished The Traveler which is a much hyped cyber-1984 dystopian tale.
I enjoyed the book for what it was (a slick, paranoid technothriller potboiler), but would never compare it to 1984 or even refer to the book as ... ... .
Delicatessen, dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro - classic French comic dystopia.
Brazil, dir. Terry Gilliam - what 1984 should have been.
Fahrenheit 451, dir. Francois Truffaut - the fact that it's dated actually works in its favour.
Solaris, dir. Andrei Tarkovsky - the only sf ... ... some pretty large libraries, but under Most commonly shared books (weighted) the statistic is "None."
Not even 1984, the DaVinci Code or the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!
I think this may account for the variety of answers in the _Zoe_ in Read YA Lit : Ultimate Teen Reading List (Apr 14, 2008, 2:00pm) >4 Oh, this is fun! Ones I've read:
1984
Boy Meets Boy
The Catcher in the Rye
Chronicles of Narnia (as a child)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Ella Enchanted
Fahrenheit 451
Feed
Flowers for Algernon
Gathering Blue
The Giver (as a child)
A Great ... ... I've not read, and many more of which I'd not heard previously. Still, there are a number I've read:
Required Reading:
1984 (Gr. 8)
Brave New World (Gr. 12)
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey (Gr. 8?)
THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL ...which, ... ... TEEN READING LIST
http://www.teenreads.com/features/2006-reading-list.asp
- 1776by David McCullough (History)
- 1984by George Orwell (Science Fiction)
- THE ALCHEMISTby Paulo Coelho (Religion/Spirituality)
- AM I BLUE?Coming Out From the Silence, edited by Marion Dane Bauer (S ... ... one if an LT user has read it and decides to take the time to write one up. Suppose you did write a crackerjack review of 1984? Some LT user will be glad you did.
But really I'm thinking of the books that have 90 copies and 2 reviews where one says 'It's great!' and the other is a hyperlink. ... the top six books catalogued on here are 6 of the Harry Potters, followed by the Da Vinci code then The hobbit, then 1984 and the tenth is the seventh harry potter.
Would it really be that different if LT users were polled?
But then again the second ten are a bit more literary. ... such a bowel movement.
I guess the closest thing I first encountered to Sci-Fi books in my late teens would have be Nineteen-Eighty Four, and I loved that even though it had no Elves in it (big fan of the LOTR movies at this point). Then I discovered there were whole other worlds of ... ... regime using fear and imaginary threats is exactly what every evil overlord does in Fantasy novels". And in, um, 1984. Which isn't a fantasy. Besides which, most high fantasies are set in cod-mediaeval worlds, which are autocratic and feudal, not totalitarian.
> 27 Cliff - ah, you ... ... paperpacks out at Amazon: Heart-Shaped Box, In the Company of Ogres, Blaze, Another Fine Myth/Myth Conceptions and 1984. All are full cover price.
When you say Amazon will offer discounts on everything, it seems they will offer discounts on trade paperbacks and hard covers. Even so, ... ... be trying anything else by him.
Well, Dune I like and have read many times. Brave New World - don't bother, read 1984 and A Clockwork Orange instead. I went off Neal Stephenson after attempting his Baroque Cycle, and there are better Heinlein novels than Stranger in a Strange La ... ... the first three, since I have them all in hand right now. I'd also be up for reading A Clockwork Orange, or re-reading 1984 or Brave New World, if anyone else is interested.
Went to the library today and picked up Kafka at the Shore by Murakami Haruki and 1984 by George Orwell. Both looks like very interesting read. ... and I gave it an extra star because I graded on a curve. Apalachee has some decent research. Easy read. You rated 1984 with only 4 stars so, our rating system does not match. Caribbean or Mexico by Michener would follow Jennings and Peters in my ratings. If you want poor research ... ... Five
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*
Rebecca*
The Count of Monte Cristo
On my shelf:
The Great Gatsby
1984
Brave New World
Emma
Pride and Predjudice
Wuthering Heights ... The Iliad 3 lists
9) War and Peace 3 lists
10) Origin of species 3 lists
11) The grapes of wrath - 2 lists
12) Nineteen eighty four 2 lists
13) Good omens 2 lists
14) Winnie the Pooh 2 lists
15) The unbearable lightness of being 2 lists
16) Hamlet 2 lists
17) The bible ... I didn't know that either. So if say down the road, Signet changes the cover on 1984 but keeps the ISBN, my cover could change?
I'm not sure that is correct though. Signet has just re-released several Sinclair Lewis books (Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith and Elmer Gantry) and my ... |
