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... does depend on your goals to start (#20), but isn't this the case with any course?
I've found that dystopian novels (1984 , Fahrenheit 451, and the like) work well with teenagers. Perhaps because they always think their world is on the precipice at all times. I've used some cyberpunk (m ...
Ha ha! I thought 365 was a bit much. I have a tendency to do that. I keep thinking that George Orwell's 1984 is actually 1981. Thanks!!!
... bookmarked R. Crumb's The Book of Genesis Illustrated, but I'm not sure I should take advice from someone who only rated Nineteen Eighty-Four two stars ;)
... library bags, 1 signed water bottle, 1 shortbread cookie in the shape of a cowboy hat, 1 giraffe pen and the best part: 1984 , Wuthering Heights, Demian, This is Your Brain on Music and Go, Dog, Go. Not bad for a $50 donation to the library. Most of the other celebrities chose Clive Cu ...
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63. How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall
Currently reading:
Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann
Nineteen Eighty by David Peace
The Mislaid Magician or Ten Years After by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell
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... as long as they're primed not to argue with justifications couched in the official lingo. (Sort of like doublethink in 1984 ).
I've only read Heidegger in English translation, so I can't personally vouch for his inscrutability in the original German. I will say that when I read him, I ...
... only ever identified by their roles - like The Invisible Man in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man or Big Brother in 1984 .
If those characters are major in their anonymity, let them fly, but otherwise, I was remiss in not finding a way to list every soldier that trained with Saleem ...
... dbury
2. R is For Rocket - Ray Bradbury
2. Machineries of Joy - Ray Bradbury
3. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
4. 1984 - George Orwell
5. Anthem - Ayn Rand
6. Farenheit 451
7. Alas, Babylon
8. I am Legend - I guess sci-fi? Horror?
9. World War Z same as above?
10. Johnn ...
... fiction I'm all ears. I love the genre and I don't think I've read enough of it. I've done some of the big ones (1984 , Brave New World, Day of the Triffids, On The Beach etc) but I feel there are a lot of gaps.
I've started my first read for the Challenge with The Night Watch ...
Congrats as well--and I recommend the film version of Nineteen Eighty-Four which was filmed in London in 1984, starring Richard Burton and John Hurt, if you enjoyed the book.
Read Nineteen Eighty-Four for the first time, and wholeheartedly agree with its inclusion in the list. What a marvelous read. Not a pleasant story, but one that needs to be told and read.
- Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell - Read 12-10-2009
And another one done and read, #60 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
I read this book because I want to make an effort to read more of the classics, the must-read books. I have always had an aversion to those, because I believe you should only read whatever you want, don't let anybody ...
... It would be very bad if I ever get to shop there again, and 900 books would be about right ;)
Meanwhile, I finished Nineteen Eighty-Four and was really impressed. I am glad I read it.
I am now reading A History of Histories by John Burrow.
... wanting to read more 'classics' anyway. I don't know a lot of them, but these are the ones I've started with and liked: 1984 , Brave New World, Twelfth Night, and Crime and Punishment. I also liked Lewis Carrol and Grimm's fairy tales.... but I'm not sure if those actually count.
Woohoo, one down, 99 more to go :D
I just finished Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell in the category C-7 Classics. I read this book because it is so ingrained in our culture (Big Brother is Watching You), I wanted to know what it was all about. I have read utopia books before (Brave New ...
Woohoo, one down, 99 more to go :D
I just finished Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell in the category C-7 Classics. I read this book because it is so ingrained in our culture (Big Brother is Watching You), I wanted to know what it was all about. I have read utopia books before (Brave New ...
Today I am reading (and probably finishing) Nineteen Eighty-Four . Now what to read next... something from my 1010 challenge, I think a nice non-fiction about the Middle Ages... :D
... by Thomas More
36.Civitas Solis by Thoma Campanella
37.New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
38.We by Yevgeni Zamyatin
39.1984 by George Orwell
40.The Master of Petersburg by J.M.Coetzee
41.Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
42.Medea by Seneca
43.A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
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... mind is Gen colored for the moment.
The next set:
Love and Exile: An Autobiographical Trilogy Isaac Bashevis Singer
1984 George Orwell - an early influence
The Prize Daniel Yergin - a history of oil
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
Crime And Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky — Intuit ...
A 1984 / Little Brother comparison would be /really/ neat for high school kids. Very contemporary, very interesting, and a lot of them are likely to have to know Orwell for other classes and just generally... knowing stuff about our political discourse today.
I could see getting some really ...
... must reread) for a class on Utopias a long time ago, and I liked reading it. A large part of the reason for me of reading 1984 is not only because it is a must read, but more that everyone is always quoting it left and right, I want to know where the quotes come from.
For that same reason I ...
... He breaks one of his first codes in his father's bookstore.
#160-divinenanny,
I'm a big George Orwell fan, and 1984 is a classic, but not his best work. For that a reader should turn to his nonfiction. Homage to Catalonia or The Road to Wigan Pier or Down and Out in London ...
... but a very good study about Christendom in Europe and the near East. Very interesting and a great read.
I just started Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, which I haven't read before. All because of my resolution to read more classics and 1001 books...
... one!
Oh, and last night I remembered a book I'd add: Little Brother. Of course, I'd make the kids in my class read 1984 first, but that's because I don't think you pick up on as much if you aren't familiar with the first story. (I'd probably also have them watch the ST:TNG episodes, too, ...
... Tristesse Françoise Sagan
508. Lord of the Flies William Golding
527. Wise Blood Flannery O’Connor
554. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
594. The Outsider Albert Camus
621. The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien
634. At the Mountains of Madness H.P. Lovecraft
641. The Nine ...
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So far, as expected, 1984 , Fahrenheit 451, Robert A. Heinlein works and Ender's Game have been suggested.
But we could have one here, too...
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This was a group read in the Constant Reader group on Goodreads. I hadn't read anything by Orwell except Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four so I thought it was a good chance to try something else. Also, I studied in Spain for a year so I have an ongoing interest in the history of that ...
... Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
God is Dead by Ron Currie Jr.
Breakfast At Tiffany's by Truman Capote
1984 by George Orwell
The Royal Diaries: Nzingha, Warrior Queen of Matamba by Pat McKissack
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The End by Lemony Snicket
The ...
Dystopias tend to be dull and I think my opinion of We suffers because I read 1984 and Brave New World first.
... Mistress of the Art of Death - Ariana Franklin
131. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive - Alexander McCall Smith
132. 1984 - George Orwell
133. The Devil and Miss Prym - Paulo Coelho
134. Arthur and George - Julian Barnes
135. The Dig - John Preston
136. The Case of the Late Pig ...
... Catcher in the Rye
535 The Third Man
536 The 13 Clocks
538 The Grass is Singing
545 Kingdom of This World
547 Nineteen Eighty-Four
551 The Heart of the Matter
552 Cry, the Beloved Country
559 The Plague
562 The Bridge on the Drina
563 Brideshead Revisited on Mount TB ...
... formats anyway.
There are lots of paranoid people out there in cyberspace. Of course, we do know what happened with 1984 , which just PROVES that Amazon is going to take over the world. Next on my reading list is Farenheit 451 - a hardcopy left over from my pre-kindle days. Perhaps I ...
Which is why i've always thought 1984 was so much greater than brave new world. The republicans totally understood the importance of making words mean exactly what you want them to mean.
... Dangerous Idea, or Dawkins's Climbing Mount Improbable and the more recent The Greatest Show on Earth)
Catch-22
1984
A Short History of Nearly Everything
I, Claudius
Ulysses
The Grapes of Wrath
With honourable mentions to The Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, One ...
The constant war in the Crimea in my opinion WAS a nod to 1984 , remember the Jasper Fforde novels are poking fun at other literary works.
Wow 1984 - I wouldn't have associated it with something that dark! I take your point about the ongoing war though. I'm re-reading it along with the Hogg, and I see what you mean about a lot of information being crammed into a short narrative space. I think it's something I'm used to, since I read ...
... selection because I've become a fan of the movie, having watched it several times. Its comparison in timing and politics to Nineteen Eighty-Four by Orwell is more easily seen in the book (compiled from the comic books it was released in), but this is one time I truly prefer the movie to the book. ...
... are not entirely positive. Chapter one carried with it a sense of familiarity that I can only connect with my reading of 1984 earlier this year; from the continuous war to the strange government departments the introduction smacked of Orwellian dystopia. But as the opening few chapters ...
... Importance of being Earnest, the Color Purple, Lord of the Flies, The Catcher in the Rye, Going Solo, Dracula, 1984 , The Jungle Book, Catch-22, Slaughterhouse 5, Jane Eyre, The Scarlet Letter, To Kill a Mockingbird, and A Christmas Carol are the ones we have. The Story ...
Burmese Days by George Orwell is, to me, not the most depressing book ever, but IS more depressing than his 1984 . This is because of his depressing view of Buddhism as it really operates in a real country. Iʻm a Christian, but I donʻt like to see any world religion downgraded as ...
... Apprentice is a good start. The latter may only be available as Young Miles.
If you like dystopia's, perhaps try 1984 by Orwell or The Giver by Lowry.
Another good, often overlooked book is Expendable by Gardner, but that may be hard to find.
... Gravity by Hal Clement
The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
1984 by George Orwell
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlen
To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer
Slan by A. E. Van Vogt
... God help us...
The best book for me? Well, here's a shortlist.
Catch-22 for all the reasons everyone says.
1984 because... well, because it's 1984 .
The Making of the Atomic Bomb because it is history writing, science and story telling all rolled into one.
The Civil War ...
We did Animal Farm and 1984 (and Brave New World) in 8th grade. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were in junior high too, I think 6th or 7th grade.
9th grade was a lot of grammer. We read A Tale of Two Cities, Romeo and Juliet, A Farewell to Arms, and several others I don't ...
#9 We read Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell, Merchant of Venice and Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare, Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, and Alive - the story of the soccer(?) team members who survived a plane crash in the Ande ...
... (432 pgs.)
4. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (352 pgs.)
5. Blood of the Fold by Terry Goodkind (640 pgs.)
6. 1984 by George Orwell (268 pgs)
7. Ally by Karen Traviss (400 pgs.)
#29. 1984 by George Orwell - 3 stars. Finally read it. Good, but weird!
#30. Three Weeks to EBay Profits by Skip McGrath - 5 stars. I am using this and starting my own Ebay business, and this book was the perfect guide!
Currently reading: Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen
I slacked a bit towards the end, but I finished up The Time Traveler's Wife and just started on 1984 by George Orwell today.
... more of hers.
79. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
An early dystopian novel from Russia that is known to have influenced 1984 . It started strongly and I enjoyed the described of the regimented society, but I found the writing too melodramatic later in the book.
80. Hippo eats Dwarf by Al ...
... ugliest I've seen for a while (sorry Nick).
Talking about bookcovers - do check out Penguin's new anniversary cover for 1984
http://greaterthanorequalto.net/blog/2009/08/1984/
171) The Master of the Fallen Chairs by Henry Porter (2008)
children's fiction
Quite a nice children's ...
I will nominate:
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Gray Apocalypse by James Murdoch
Watchmen by Alan Moore
1984 by George Orwell
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
I will second Anathem.
--BJ
... by Irene Nemirovsky (fiction)
The Pox Party by M. T. Anderson (YA)
The Braided World by Kay Kenyon (sci fi)
1984 by George Orwell (sci fi)
The Secret History by Donna Tartt (fiction)
Under Sea, Over Stone by Susan Cooper (ya fantasy)
The Inheritance of Loss by K ...
... are:
Finnegan's Wake, Joyce
Life of Johnson, Boswell
Mein Kampf, Hitler
Lolita, Nabakov
Tao Te Ching, Tzu
1984 , Orwell
>137 girlunderglass, you have left it too late to read 1984 you should have read it in 1948! :)
~TT
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rocketjk - I have to admit that I wasn't a huge fan of We - I had heard that it was one of the inspirations for 1984 , and I think I was expecting something as good as Orwell. But to be fair, not many things are as good as Orwell. I also think that the edition I had was badly ...
Hmm. Could be fun, if you pick your shows carefully, e.g.
If you like .... try reading ....
Big brother | Nineteen eighty-four
The West Wing | Bartlett's familiar quotations
Cheers | The catcher in the rye (Yes, I know it should be pitcher...)
... read 3 times!
I liked A Separate Peace, actually- but I think because we got to do this one in small groups . I read 1984 outside of class- and I get somewhat that it is of its time, but it is really dull and heavy-handed.
... really find out what happens to Ms. Birdie and she was one of my favorite characters.
4. Book 25, half way through! 1984 by George Orwell. Orwell is a great writer, I could honestly end this little review here. The book was amazing, in some parts it reminded me of Vurt(listed above) ...
Just took the book quiz and found out that I am 1984 . I suppose I should get around to actually reading it now.
1984 !You have this uncanny feeling that you're always being watched. Thus
life ...
Hey, Jackie . . . here are my suggestions from the 1001 list
1. Nineteen Eighty-four , George Orwell (love it or hate it, I think it's a book everyone should read)
2. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
3. If This is a Man aka: Survival at Auschwitz, Primo Levi
4. Like Water for Chocolate ...
>212 I know how you feel - I felt that way about 1984 under the Bush administration.
... & The Arabian Nights via Daily Lit and have just started The Kreutzer Sonata by Tolstoy which I'm enjoying so far and 1984 by Orwell which I'm not sure if I will be able to get through because it's an audio book and I can't stand the reader.
... works, I'll admit the STYLE doesn't grab me as much as the "wow, I'm reading something that really influenced things". 1984 is like that for me.
... book of the two dystopian novels that Orwell created, for a number of reasons. The chief difference to me was that in 1984 , Orwell told you that everything was wrong, and you knew it was wrong, while Animal Farm told you everything was going great, while you knew it was not.
Oh, and ...
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1984 is far far over-rated?
First, I'm not sure whether is should really be classified as science fiction, in the most commonly understood manner.
1984 is quite probably one of the most influential and important books of the 20th century. One only has to think about the ...
... this year I thought I'd sign up. Here's what I've done so far:
Books:
1. Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
3. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
4. Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
6. ...
The only classic I really enjoyed at school was Lord of the Flies by William Golding. I quite liked 1984 by George Orwell too, but I think Animal Farm would have been a better choice, even though it made me cry, and still depresses me when I think of it.
I don't read many classics, ...
The only classic I really enjoyed at school was Lord of the Flies by William Golding. I quite liked 1984 by George Orwell too, but I think Animal Farm would have been a better choice, even though it made me cry, and still depresses me when I think of it.
I don't read many classics, ...
... things down for each scene.
Future books on my reading list include: The Handmaid's Tale, Catcher in the Rye, 1984 , and 100 Years of Solitude. I plan on reading them once for pleasure and then doing the aforementioned plot exercise on them. I've already read The Handmaid's Tale ...
I finished 1984 . Loved it. :)
46. 1984 by George Orwell
- A re-read from high school. I didn't care for it then (as was the case with all books I was 'required' to read), but this time, I loved it.
My sister did Nineteen Eighty Four for the HSC (in 1984, naturally), and Brave New World and Animal Farm. She got all the dystopias! I read 1984 (in 1984) but neither of the others.
KimB, My Brilliant Career was one of the set texts I didn't read. Still haven't. Just can't quite bring ...
I haven't read 1984 , but I have read Animal Farm.
I haven't read The Cat Who Saw Red but I have read 1984
... of Cancer
Native Son
The Stranger
The Little Prince
Animal Farm
Under the Volcano
Exercises in Style
1984
The Catcher in the Rye
Molloy
Memoirs of Hadrien
The Old Man and the Sea
Casino Royale
Fear of Flying
The Dispossessed
Kiss of the Spiderwoman
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... Contact, Perfume, Lord of the Rings, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Name of the Rose, The Dispossessed, Nineteen Eighty Four , Cry the beloved country, The little prince, Jane Eyre, The three musketeers, Candide, and Blindness are a few of my favorites.
24) Pla ...
... I recall being resistant to books as kid and my older sister did a lot more reading than I did. I have a memory of reading 1984 in high school and being surprised to actually enjoy reading a book. I was fascinated, where as before that I had found most books painfully boring.
I'll have to ...
1984 by George Orwell
... has already happened. People were reimbursed, but there is no guarantee this will happen allways.
See this article about 1984 disappearing from kindles: http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others/ . It is quite ironic it had to be this book (or a ...
Still working on Half of a Yellow Sun. I've also started 1984 ,which I know I read in high school. I don't remember much besides the main theme.
Hi yosarian and thanks. I liked Fahrenheit 451 and Watchmen too, though I have to say I prefer 1984 and Brave New World to the former. Still, given that it was Bradbury's first novel I think we can give him a bit of leeway! Yes, I'm still reading Sherlock Holmes and loving it. I can't believe I ...
... Belly - Camilla Gib
5.A Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
6.Conversations with a Fat Girl - Liza Palmer
7.1984 - George Orwell
8.Second Glance - Jodi Picoult
9.Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
10.The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
11.Prelude to Foundation - ...
... was Peak Oil, then Tudor historical fiction. Around last year I OD'd on novels about people who were starving (The Road, 1984 , A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Poisonwood Bible, etc...) and just HAD to cleanse my palette with some lighter stuff. So I read Chocolate, some Jane Austen and... ...
... World is definitely worth a read if you've got it, although it is a little dated (from my memory) - and I preferred 1984 - but since that's not for you, you may enjoy the former more? I still haven't got round to reading Orxy and Crake, so I feel I should read that before the new one, ...
... growing up, but, while I enjoyed it very much, for me, Blindness didn't have the same impact as, eg Brave New World, 1984 , The Chrysalids or even Extinction is Forever. Personally, I'm enjoying "Seeing" just as much, even if the pace isn't the same.
You're very welcome to borrow B ...
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14. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
15. Culture Warrior by Bill O'Reilly
16. The Shack by William P. Young
17. 1984 by George Orwell
18. The Secret Life Of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
19. Critical by Tom Daschle
20. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
21. A Bold Fresh Piece Of Huma ...
64. 1984 - George Orwell
Completes category IX - books from my TBR.
Comments on my 75 book challenge thread as usual.
132. 1984 - George Orwell
I've been getting round to reading 1984 since about 1984. Okay, slight exaggeration. Since about 1994. It's one of those books that you feel you know, even if you haven't read it, because the concepts and terminology are so much a part of popular culture and ...
Right now I'm reading 1984 by George Orwell
1. Got it from the library.
2. Cost me $0.
3. This is one of those on my list of classic books that I should have ALREADY read, but haven't. (Not the whole thing, anyway.)
4. It was here for 2 weeks or more before I picked it up to read - ...
Have finally picked up 1984 after about two years of it being on my "To Read" list. About 60 pages in and love it!
I second The Book Thief
Also:
The Poisonwood Bible
1984
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
In Defense of Food
Pride and Prejudice
A Thousand Splendid Suns
When we say for everyone to read, are we assuming culturally similar English-speakers? I include The Poinsonwood Bible and A T ...
... Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
1984 by George Orwell
I will be out of town for two weeks, so I will second now:
Neuromancer by William Gibson
--BJ
>16 Oh, I like the "future" timespans... and then we get to problems like 1984 . :)
>17 I think it would be particularly interesting for global reading... say, finding historical fiction that dealt with the world in 1300s. You could find stuff for Europe via Important Events - Black Plague, ...
... on latter work, and originality at the time of publication, so I am not up for a discussion of quality, but if you mention 1984 , you have to have Brave new world on the list as well, IMO.
... Dead and Gone. 320 pages. 5.17.09.
54. Lovecraft, H.P. "The Call of Cthulhu." 31 pages. 5.18.09.
55. Orwell, George. 1984 . 254 pages. 5.19.09.
56. Moore, Alan, et al. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. 176 pages. 5.20.09.
57. Pratchett, Terry. The Truth. 348 pages. 5.23.09.
58. ...
For writers with no style, consider this exercise:
Which book has been more memorable and more iconic in literature:
*1984 -- Orwell's prescient dystopia written in 1949.
*The Moon is a Harsh Mistress -- Heinlein's tale of Martian revolution written in the mid-1950s.
***
Even ...
16. Anthemby Ayn Rand
Just got done with this, talk about a fast read! I must say I didn't really like it. I've read 1984 and it's hard not to compare other dystopian novels to it. So while I was reading Anthem I kept thinking about 1984 and how I much rather be reading that. I want to read Br ...
... on Librarything for the tag dystopia and of the top books it listed as most tagged with dystopia I had read seven:
1984
Animal Farm
The Handmaids Tale
Farenheight 451
Lord of the Flies
Never Let Me Go
The Road
The one that effected me the most. To the point where I ...
... I missed)
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg (our club selection)
Theif of Time by Terry Pratchett
1984 by George Orwell
The Gift of Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
I looked for Fahrenheit 451; but all library had to offer when I was there was the Cliff Notes. Then ...
I have a fear of being trapped in a room with a television that I can't switch off. I put it down to being made to read 1984 at an impressionable age.
... besides the three you mentioned? I love dystopias in general, but I found Fahrenheit 451 disappointing and I also think 1984 is a bit flawed (I wasn't impressed by the fact that the long description of the political situation couldn't be incorporated naturally into the story), so I wouldn't ...
... and on the whole it was ok to read. However I only gave it three starts because as a genre I just don't like dystopia. Like 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale I just don't get worked up by them and find them a bit boring...
21. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier *****
The narrator (who is is ...
... is a "book". That corresponds to the actual physical copy you have (or want, or have read). I have a particular copy of 1984 , for instance -- the Signet Classics edition published in 1984. But there are dozens of other editions, sharing the title and author (though not ISBN or publication ...
#48 No, Seriously, Read it. Its not very intelligent fir you, It's really easy. It just has some symbolism.
# 46 1984 or Animal Farm if you want to change your genre.
# 47 An easy book would be Around the World in Eighty Days
# 45 Yes, I have that book. It's really cool. I got it ...
... Technology gives us wonderful stuff, the humanities create the ground rules for its use. Without the humanities part we get 1984 , Brave New World, and most disturbingly of all A Clockwork Orange. Rejection of the humanities in favor of the latest wizzbang technology will destroy our ...
Just finished Nineteen Eighty-Four and today I started The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. I've only read a few pages, but already I'm really excited about reading it and can't wait to pick it up again.
#11 1984
#10 Isaac Asimov
Hope to read both book and books by, sometime.
... you search for the tags "splendid" or "excellent", you get Middlesex for both. If you search for "outstanding", you get Nineteen eighty-four . If you search for "spiffing" you get nothing at all. I think you've got some tagging to do, Mr A!
>38
love 1984 's opening sentence. when i read that line, a chill thru me, as if a snake were slithering up my back; i mean, April have always struck me as, just plain wrong, you know?
"Call me Ishmael." Moby Dick
"Its was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." 1984
Top marks for both Anna Karenina and Lolita.
... by John Boyd.
This book has several familar themes in it. Themes that bring to mind "brave New World" by Huxley, "1984 " by Orwell, "The World Inside" by Silverburg (which came out two years later),"The Eyes of Heisenberg" by Herbert, "Methuselah's Children" by Heinlein. Even a ...
#11 1984
#2 Stephen King
The Time Machine, H. G. Wells
Dune, Frank Herbert
Ringworld Larry Niven
We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
1984 George Orwell
Neuromancer, William Gibson
Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer
The Star's My Des ...
... Lemme offer just 3 picks and (I believe) in descending order of popularity, impact and year...
the dystopia classic:
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)
a study of mankind:
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller (1959)
and squeaking in under the wire, a one- ...
... book is harder to pick. I really loved It Can't Happen Here and the obvious classics of the genre, Brave New World and 1984 . However, I'm going to have to go with my sentimental favorite Atlas Shrugged. I'll be the first to admit that as fine literature goes it's not the best, but it ...
After having enjoyed 1984 last month I indulged in Animal Farm by George Orwell. Brilliant read, enjoyable and relevant, another book which is probably wasted on bored teenagers in high school.
Book 30 - V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
Ever since I read 1984 I have liked books about totalitarian governments and people who rebel against them. The idea of Big Brother has always interested me and I always wonder if the government wiretapping and video tapping it's citizens happened ...
... and, of its kind, the last.
*****
>39:
1) A River Runs Through It
2) War of the Worlds
3) Invisible Man
4) 1984
5) Huck Finn
6) Charlotte's Web
7) Brideshead Revisited
8) The Crow Road
9) Hamlet
10) Romeo and Juliet
11) Divine Comedy
12) The Old Man and ...
That's horrible. I remember reading books like 1984 and The Iliad as a kid. Sure they were over my head - in parts. So what?..
Just started on Nineteen eighty-four by George Orwell. I think I've read it before, but probably about 20 years ago now... (at least!)
... web searching when I got back and a couple more references, drawing the lines fron Notes from the Underground to We to 1984 .
Dostoevsky talks of Crystal Palaces, Zamyatin of glass buildings, etc. As one blogger has written of D & Z:
"They each seem to work at the same thing, but from ...
... recommendations are for what LT calls a "work" while what you have in your library is a "book". For instance, my copy of 1984 is a specific edition -- a Signet Classics paperback, published in 1984 -- but what LT recommends, when it's recommending 1984, is the work -- it's edition-agnos ...
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55. Orwell, George. 1984 . 254 pages. 5.19.09.
1984 is one of those novels I have intended to read for years, and have never gotten around to. However, I finally managed to get to it, for better or for worse. Orwell's dystopian novel has left me feeling rather prosaic, and I'm not ...
... with the newts;
The little prince**;
The glass bead game;
Titus groan and Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake;
Nineteen-eighty four **;
I, Robot and Foundation** by Isaac Asimov;
The thirteen clocks;
Day of the triffids and Chocky by John Wyndham;
The glass bees;
...
... Women
37. Lolita
38. Lord of the Flies
39. The Lord of the Rings
4o. Moby Dick
41. The Name of the Rose
42. Nineteen Eighty-Four
43. Oliver Twist
44. Once and Future King
45. Perfume
46. The Picture of Dorian Grey
47. Pippi Longstocking
48. Pride and Prejudice
4 ...
1984
... wikipedia or for present-day academics)
I enjoyed reading Brave New World and Ecotopia in high school, didn't get to 1984 until college.
I would prefer to leave the "science fiction" in the set of top-rated, fiction can paint a much more vivid picture. From my perspective, the movie S ...
... Rings (Andre Norton)
Mortal Engines (Philip Reeve)
Night of Masks (Andre Norton)
Night Sky Mine (Melissa Scott)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
Only Child (H. M. Hoover)
Orvis (H. M. Hoover)
Outward Bound (James P. Hogan)
Peeps (Scott Westerfield)
Powers (Ursula K. ...
Today's Observer Review has a fascinating article about the great effort that George Orwell exerted to finish Nineteen Eighty-Four while he was suffering from tuberculosis, which would eventually claim his life several months after its publication:
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3. George Orwell : 1984 cindyp in What Are You Reading Now? : BBC Meme: How Many of These 100 Books Have YOU Read? (May 6, 2009, 6:48pm)
I'm weighing in at 22.
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Bible
Nineteen-Eighty Four
Great Expectations
The Hobbit
Catcher in the Rye
Great Gatsby
Crime and Punishment
Grapes of Wrath
Chronicles of Narnia
The lion the witch and the wardrobe
Animal Farm
Da Vinci Code
H ...
... very cool. The Outsiders was good and my senior year we had to pick a book from a list to do a term paper on and I picked 1984 and loved every page of it. I also understand the importance of getting some Shakespeare and books like To Kill a Mockingbird. They just didn't include enough books ...
... Schneider)
The Man Who Folded Himself (David Gerrold)
Mortal Engines (Philip Reeve)
Night Sky Mine (Melissa Scott)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
Only Child (H. M. Hoover)
Orvis (H. M. Hoover)
Outward Bound (James P. Hogan)
Peeps (Scott Westerfield)
Psion (Joan D. Vi ...
We read 1984 , Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, Brave New World and even Ayn Rand (not that we understood it) in high school! Some personal favorites I can remember are A Wrinkle in Time, The Giver, Bradbury and Heinlein.
... novel?
I can never choose just one - and it changes depending on when I'm being asked. So - here are some of them:
1984 by George Orwell, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, The Sugar Qu ...
... (H. M. Hoover)
Mind Hold (Wilanne Belden Schneider)
Mortal Engines (Philip Reeve)
Night Sky Mine (Melissa Scott)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
Only Child (H. M. Hoover)
Orvis (H. M. Hoover)
Outward Bound (James P. Hogan)
Psion (Joan D. Vinge)
Putting up Roots (Cha ...
Just finished 1984 by George Orwell. It was brilliant, and another example of a classic high school text that is likely appreciated in a different way by those of us well out of high school.
About to start The Thin Man by Hammet for a bit of fun reading in the sun.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
1984 by George Orwell
The Ear, the Eye and The Arm by Nancy Farmer
Here I go!
BOOKS
The Blind Assassin
The Handmaid's Tale
Emotionally Weird
Pride and Prejudice
1984
Chocolat
AUTHORS
Margaret Atwood
Jane Austen
Kate Atkinson
Joanne Harris
Roald Dahl
FOOD
Sour cream enchiladas
sushi
garlic-y pasta
lo mein ...
... Saul Bellow
9. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
10. Surfacing, M Atwood
11. Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor
12. Nineteen Eighty Four , George Orwell
13. The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson
14. Half a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
15. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
1 ...
... however - such as in A Clockwork Orange is both chilling and effective, while the simple mere threat of it (1984 ) is often far more scary than its acted-out counterpart. And the ultimate form - psychological violence - is the scariest kind there is.
I just read Feed by M.T. Anderson for a lit class and absolutely loved it. Whereas 1984 is more about the government, Feed is about our continued evolution to a consumer-driven society. The world is at a point where everyone has a "feed" implanted into their brains at a very young age, and ...
... Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
12.Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
13.Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
14.Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
15.The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
16.The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
17.To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
...
I hate 1984 . Mandatory reading in school when I was 12. I think it was way too early for that book for me, although I'm sure I'd never like it. Same goes for Animal Farm (read the previous year for school) and another completely depressing book whose title I knew a minute ago but escapes me ...
#37-Oh and once again, I highly recommend the film version of Nineteen Eighty-Four starring John Hurt and Richard Burton--it was amazing! Filmed in 1984 in London in locations from the book-it offers a nice visual of the book.
You also might try his autobiographical Homage to Catalonia about ...
... the film - i.e., self-censorship, the impact of the film, the power of the press.
Much more to discuss than in either 1984 or Brave New World.
... The Glass Bead Game, and I enjoyed them both. I also thought "Born To Be Wild" really rocked. ;-)
On a vote between 1984 and Brave New World I'd have to go with 1984 too - it chilled and spooked me when I read it.
Giving BRAVE NEW WORLD to students is cruel and unusual punishment. Dull, dull, dull.
1984 is bleak, unrelenting...but at its core it's all about the relationship between Winston and Julia, their love affair making an awful, repressive existence bearable. That's far more accessible than Hux ...
I'm of the opposite camp - 1984 is better than Brave New World. And I's put A Clockwork Orange before both.
Brave new world is better than 1984 so I would go for it instead.
... Book. Orson Scott Card, Ender Series is on my tbr pile, my sons have enjoyed them. Dune series by Frank Herbert, 1984 , by Orwell. No one has mentioned The Giver by Lois Lowry, maybe it is supposed to be targeted to a YA audience, but that book still haunts me today. Le Guin Ea ...
... (*SPOILERS*)
I was expecting this book to be far more menacing in tone and depressing, along the lines of 1984 are ultimately very depressing - ...
1421
1776
1919: USA Trilogy
1984
2010
... that would be hard to argue with. We had that one in high school (11th grade) and iirc it worked pretty well in class.
1984 stands out for a wide variety of reasons - v. good for class discussion, i'd think. We had animal farm as well and, at the time, it seemed the satire was too broad.
... I read it again.
Other high school reads I thought were wonderful at the time, and still think so: Lord of the Flies; 1984 ; Animal Farm; and in junior high, The Merchant of Venice.
I'll be interested in finding out which replacement(s) for A Separate Peace you choose. Good luck!
12 - Nineteen Eighty-Four , George Orwell
Spent all day reading it, feeling rather drained now. This could almost pass as a zombie novel seeing as the inhabitants of Oceania are so mindless haw haw haw how clever of me.
So full of political philosophy eeeeek I can't even write about it ...
You'll get the idea:
1949 By Morgan Llywelyn
Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell
The Making of the President 1960 by Teddy White
1066 and All That by W. C. Sellar
After 1903--What? by Robert Benchley
... ake
snow crash stephenson
diamond age stephenson
only forward by smith
earth by brin
riddley walker by hoban
1984 orwell
journey to the centre verne
babel 17 by delany
2001 Clarke
Sandkings by Martin
Ringworld by niven
Gah. there's loads more, these are just ...
... Fourpawz, jmaloney & wunderkind - I'm both glad not to be completely alone and almost resolving to finish 1984 one day - almost . But not quite. I don't think I'm really an Orwell person at heart.
>314 : Lois, I feel bad about not ...
... Apprentice--Lois McMaster Bujold (whichever one everyone decides on)
Hitchhikers's Guide to the Galaxy--Douglas Adams
1984 --George Orwell
Little Brother--Cory Doctorow (for teens who've read/know about 1984)
The Illustrated Man--Ray Bradbury
Left Hand of Darkness--Ursula LeGuin
E ...
Finished #4 Palms Are Not Trees After All. Dang, I'm falling behind. I am about 3/4 of the way through 1984 , though. I just need to push on with it.
Yes, they surely do. It reminds me mostly of Fahrenheit 451 and the Matrix, although it does have a few 1984 like bits (Father=Big Brother anyone?). Haven't read We, so can't comment on that though.
I enjoyed Equilibrium, too. It really is a mash-up of 1984 , Farenheit 451, We, The Matrix and the whole totalitarian dystopia genre. But they do it well, and it's exciting.
... Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the ...
... I believe this characters really exist!)
I would recommend this to anyone, not just Orwell fans. Even those who disliked Nineteen Eighty Four may find something to love here. It's really all about human relationships, set in a backdrop of 1930's London. It fair warms the heart...
... poverty, it was a surprisingly easy read, with some amusing incidents and interesting observations. I'd previously read 1984 and Animal Farm which I loved but this has inspired me to read other Orwell too.
JolieLouise in What Are You Reading Now? : BBC Meme: How Many of These 100 Books Have YOU Read? (Apr 9, 2009, 10:09pm)
... 22 for sure (I actually think I read a couple more in high school but am not positive). I loved To Kill a Mockingbird, Nineteen Eighty Four , Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Lolita, The Secret History, Jude the Obscure, and The Remains of the Day.
- An ...
216> The funny thing is the only book from the list that I have read (and finished) was 1984 . ;)
315< But the ending is what makes 1984 ! I'm not even a huge fan of the novel, but it's really one that has to be completely read to be appreciated.
I hated 1984 as well. I thought I was the only one. I truly expected to like it too, as it is a type of book I would normally like. I never finished it, and I always finish books even if I don't really like them. I don't even know what I didn't like about it. I was just bored, I guess.
... explaining its context, and a very brief summary of its main "thesis". This could be avoided in a review of something like 1984 or Pride and Prejudice, but something more obscure like this needs an initial explanation?
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Uglies Series by Scott Westerfeld
1984 by Geroge Orwell
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley--Which brought my high school self heavily into the genre a few years back
I, too, hated 1984 and only read it under parental pressure.
... female leads, then Elizabeth Moon and the Heris Serrano stories, or Vatta stories.
One book right now, that is easy, 1984 . What you say, it is 25 years after 1984 and 1984 certainly wasn't like that. That is the mystique of Science Fiction. When the story was written, Orwell cast his mind ...
... if you'd like? You'll have to resend me your address though as I don't think I've kept it...
Re Captain Corelli and 1984 - two of my favourite books!
...but I definitely agree with book shoping being the perfect retail therapy! (but I do detest clothes shopping, so...) I ...
... Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
13. Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
14. Flatland by Edwin Abbott
15. 1984 by George Orwell
16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
17. Time and Again by Jack Finney
18. We by Eugene Zamiatin
19. The Gods of Mars by ...
... Life of Ivan Denisovich Solzhenitzyn
Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust Lyn Smith
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
Atonement Ian McEwan
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Remarque (the only war story I can think of that tells exactly the same ...
#67: Hello SupaMaori! Welcome to the Hogwarts Express! I read 1984 and really liked it and it freaked me out a little bit coz I could relate the situation in my country to the things happenning in the book :S. And what did you think of it?
... (For an example of his juvenile's I would go with Tunnel in the Sky.)
If someone wants a "classic" I do steer them to Nineteen Eighty Four rather than the Foundation series.
Accessability isn't generally an issue - since if I am personally recommending a book to someone based on ...
Hi, SupaMaori! Welcome! Ninteen Eighty-Four , that's another one that I keep planning to read! I have too many books for so little time. :)
... son
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
1984 by George Orwell
... of them. Some of them more than once.
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
25 The Hitc ...
... and I hated a couple - Alice in Wonderland and Catcher in the Rye, I mean you. Among the ones I never finished are Nineteen Eighty-Four , Emma and Dracula. They're all standing by for a second try though!
Thanks Richard, nice thread!
... - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - paryial
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shak ...
... - read first 3
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - read parts
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D ...
... controlled, even colour is controlled. Sameness is the desired quality, and Rules are of the utmost importance. This is 1984 , Brave New World or The Handmaid's Tale for children, and it is a book that portrays a world just as horrible. As Jonas gains knowledge about how the world used ...
... of ‘unpersons’. Again, whether you agree with her point of view or not, she was a person who saw firsthand what Nineteen Eighty Four fictionalized.
She wrote from a philosophical viewpoint which she did not invent, but elaborated on to provide her characters with the means to ...
... were before it, and how you were afterward. for me, The Lovely Bones, On My Way to Paradise, The Dispossessed, and 1984 were such turning points; they were like my Renaissance, American (& French) Revolutions, Industrial Revolution, and World Wars. you read them and you knew; it was as ...
16. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (374 p., YA)
This 1984 -for-the-post-9/11-generation cypherpunk novel takes place in San Francisco, where Marcus is a 17 year old high school student who knows his way around hacking and fooling his school's many "security measures". He and some friends ...
... on TV, but I think I have also read the book. I certainly haven't read Proust or Hemingway, but I was pushed through 1984 at school, and I dragged myself through War and Peace. I got two pages into Finnegan's Wake and haven't attempted Ulysses. I read The Selfish Gene at college (a ...
maybe Fahrenheit 451 or 1984 ?
Just finished 1984 . Continuing with On the Eve and Choke.
Guy on the bus today reading Nineteen Eighty Four , by George Orwell.
I loved Brave New World and place it above 1984 also. Glad you read it, even if it didn't grab you.
Last night I finished (9) Brave New World, it was interesting, but the end wasn't entirely satisfying, much like 1984 . I must say that I like the writing style and flow of Huxley compared to Orwell, but I'm not sure which one of their stories I like better.
... completely by ONLY those who likewise agree - "
That's a life? That's something to be desired? yeesh. Sounds like 1984 or Brave New World to me.
... Butler was simply writing agit-prop, not literature. Not sure there's a clear, bright line between them. I sometimes think 1984 , much as I love it, is really as much agit-prop as anything else.
... Mockingbird – Harper Lee
27. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
28. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
29. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
30. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
31. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
32. The Hobbit – J. ...
1984 's conjoined twin Brave New World qualifies, but only if it has not been mentioned already. Or The Time Machine.
What other alternative government books are out there, bot good replacement and bad replacement? Obvioulsy we have 1984 , and to an extent the film Brazil... I am blanking as I have a lot on my mind but I am sure that there are many.
... love the Zombie Survival Guide :-)
I have to agree with the above posters that Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1984 , and anything by Terry Pratchett are all great ideas. I also highly recommend the Nightwatch, Daywatch and Twilight Watch books by Lukyanenko
I thought Brave New World was a bit pants. Orwell's 1984 was vastly better.
... the reader. Neil Stephenson's Zodiac brings up the subject of environmental terrorism.
Distopias
Orwell's 1984 , Huxley's Brave New World, Rand's Anthem, Burgess' A Clockwork Orange all can get discussions going. However, the discussions are often one-sided because you ...
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27. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
28. Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
29. Animal Farm - George Orwell
30. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
31. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
32. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
33. The Old Man and the Sea - Earnest Hemingway
34. ...
...
27. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
28. Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
29. Animal Farm - George Orwell
30. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
31. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
32. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
33. The Old Man and the Sea - Earnest Hemingway
34. ...
...
27. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
28. Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
29. Animal Farm - George Orwell
30. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
31. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
32. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
33. The Old Man and the Sea - Earnest Hemingway
34. ...
... Ralph Ellison
58) The Old Man and the Sea -- Ernest Hemingway
59) The Catcher in the Rye -- J. D. Salinger
60) 1984 -- George Orwell
61) Cry, the Beloved Country -- Alan Paton
62) Animal Farm -- George Orwell
63) Ficciones -- Jorge Luis Borges
64) Farewell, My Lovely -- ...
... The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. I really loved this book. I'm a fan of dystopia sci-fi, and this ranks with Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World as one of the best. The religious and gender issues are as relevant as ever; just how much sensitivity do we show to the ...
Started 1984 and having a hard time putting it down. That was totally unexpected as I've been putting that one off for a long time.
... (though I could be wrong about that), and The Handmaid's Tale was good, especially if you like dystopian novels (like 1984 , Brave New World, The Giver, etc - basically a book about an alternate society that is miserable to live in). Maybe someone else, who is better versed in Atwood, ...
...
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
16 The Hobb ...
Richard Burton's last film was 1984 , filmed in 1984, in parts of London identified in the book. It's a very good film of the book, especially if you liked the read.
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I'm trying to think of any humorous satire, and failing. Even A Modest Proposal isn't all that funny, and 1984 is downright depressing.
... genre. Even Margaret Atwood (an author I typically love) even her Oryx and Crake was a dud for me. I haven't read 1984 yet so maybe I'll give that a try sometime soon.
#77, 93 - I am so loving Tana French's novels. I daresy the best in the mystery/thriller genre I have ever read! ...
... such a classic? Mind you I felt the same about Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451. The only dystopian classic I like is 1984 , which could be because I love the writing style of Orwell.
With Slaughterhouse-Five, to me it was clumsily written and the key thing i guess, I just didn't get ...
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Glad you liked 1984 , it is one my all time favourites and I am a huge George Orwell fan!
I just finished (5) 1984 by George Orwell. Very interesting, Part 3 was very unexpected, I highly recommend this book.
1984 by George Orwell
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
... written a lot earlier than 92. Fifties I think...
So then that would hold a future stemming from our world.
But is 1984 by Orwell Science Fiction, or just powerful Literary Fiction? Wheras is Brazil by Terry Gilliam, which to me looks like a play on 1984, anything but Science Ficti ...
My two lads and I watched "Equilibrium" last night and had a ball. Little touches of 1984 , BRAVE NEW WORLD, FAHRENHEIT 451 and "The Matrix" throughout. Actually, Liam and I thought it better than "Matrix", while Sam politely demurred. But we all agreed Christian Bale blows Keanu out of the ...
15. Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell; I read Animal Farm and 1984 years ago, but recently I've been reading Orwell's non-fiction, and it's interesting to see how the ideas he ends up using in those later books were developing so much earlier. His descriptions of the absurdity of war, and ...
17. 1984 01-27-2009
18. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 02-05-2009
I've read the Ugly Duckling (Love that book!!)
but I've never read 1984
... I prefer not have too much science in my SF and when I think about the genre the first book that springs to mind is 1984 by George Orwell...
... Palin, etc.
Is this offensive or is politics barred from SF discussions? If so, why aren't the comments about 1984 flagged?
I guess that makes me an unperson.
Go back to reading your John Ringo and Terry Brooks.
1984 had the giant TVs that provided the citizenry w/ "informed consent" to their lives, and weren't the sets able to spy w/in the homes? (defn. need to reread - been way too long).
... of Benedikt's life, beginning with his lowly origins.
The book's themes are similar to other dystopian novels (think 1984 or Animal Farm), and the apocalyptic setting satisfied my taste for "end of the world" novels.
It was also interesting to read a novel by a descendant of Tolstoy ...
... .
I quite enjoyed this book, but not nearly as much as other dystopian novels I've read such as The Handmaid's Tale and 1984 .
... Zigzag to my wishlist on BM. It sounds excellent, as does the Noel Coward book.
I confess to not yet having read 1984 . Or Brave New World. (Or any number of other classics...*blush*) But I have read Swiss Family Robinson and loved it when I was a kid, so it's sad that it didn't ...
... over positive, negative, and neutral reviews. For that reason, I like to read at least one of each.
I went to Orwell's 1984 mostly because it's a familiar book with a lot of controversy surrounding it. I tried to pick out a few different reviews to talk about.
Jessicawest's is clearly ...
Some positive reviews for George Orwell's 1984 :
"This is a great dystopian book that will make you think deeply about society. Its based in a utopian setting London. I was forced to read this for my english class, and I would gladly read it again and again. The message that the book conveys is ...
Mine is The Da Vinci Code with 28031 people, followed by 1984 with 24127 people. The top five most owned in my collection, excluding The Da Vinci Code are all classics.
I don't feel so much like a dying reader breed now :D
Mine is 1984 by George Orwell with 24,126 members. :)
... ndham
68. Foundation Isaac Asimov
69. A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute
70. I, Robot Isaac Asimov
71. Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
72. The Plague Albert Camus
73. Animal Farm George Orwell
74. Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren
75. The Li ...
... that mention them. So what if they show those technologies being used in a future in which we now know they're outdated? 1984 hasn't suffered any because the year 1984 wasn't actually like that.
My taste in SF seems to run towards Cold War era in a lot of ways, in spite of not having been ...
... Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Crime and Punishment, Invisible Man, The Grapes of Wrath, A Room of One's Own, 1984 , Wide Sargasso Sea, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch, short stories from everyone from Chekhov to Poe, and a ton of poetry...
... Genealogie der Moral. Eine Streitschrift. by Friedrich Nietzsche
32. SEXY EFFECT 96 by 真山 ジュン
33. 1984 by George Orwell
34. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
35. Apology of Socrates by Platon
36. The Republic by Platon
37. Critique of Pure R ...
... of my head (and my library):
LA Confidential by James Ellroy - an excellent movie, but a book that has to read.
1984 by George Orwell - a really quite good version of a classic book.
The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - disappointing movie, although Stephen Fry's narration ...
... dated are those that a) are set within entirely created universes, and b) have themes which are of relevance at any time. 1984 fits this pattern, Brave New World doesn't. But then I hated Brave New World and thought it poorly-done.
Another sf classic which fits the pattern is Dune. As ...
51. Animal Farm, 1980s
52. The Plague, 2007
53. If This is a Man, 2008
54. Nineteen Eighty-Four , 2007
55. The Heat of the Day, 2008
56. The 13 Clocks, 2006
57. The Catcher in the Rye, 1980s
58. The Old Man and the Sea, 1970s
59. The Lord of the Flies, 1970s
60. The Lord ...
... in the 1920s, or Huxley in the 30s, or Orwell in the 40s and 50s, the same thing with technology applies. "We" and 1984 and Brave New World all have their laughably outdated technology, but these were all masters of the language (not just some low-rent genre). Outdated technology is ...
Does 1984 count as "near past"? ;)
I'm more concerned with message over measurement.
... any touchstones.
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Hamlet William Shakespeare
1984 George Orwell
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
One ...
Yayyy Thanks cat!
I have read 1984
but I haven't read Physik
... and is immediately hit by food from all sides*
I've read books from the Princess Diaries series!
But I haven't read 1984 (yet. I plan to, eventually).
1984 by George Orwell
What are the chances that both of my book groups would be scheduled to meet last week to discuss George Orwell books, and that both would be postponed?
I was quite relieved that the 1984 discussion was postponed, since I had been too caught up in Nights at the C ...
... time. The story has become so much a part of our collective knowledge, though. I did enjoy it much more than my reread of 1984 (more on that later). It's rather dated, but still a fairly good allegory. I did a bit of online reading up on the Russian revolution and Stalin's rule afterwards, and ...
... he wrote with Neil Gaiman; i don't think it's YA but it's not a tough read and is funny as hell.
also i'd second 1984 . i read that when i was 16 (and angry at the world in general) and i've never been the same since; in a good way -- i hope.
I'm reading 1984 by George Orwell. I read this book back in 1984 as a class assignment and saw a very well done play done by the local community college. I really enjoyed it then so I'm hoping my tastes haven't changed to much since then. :0)
... by real world authoritarian groups (e.g. McCarthyism) that claimed to have all the answers.
Like the opposition to '1984 ', the opposition to 'Fahrenheit 451' seems to grow as the depicted society grows too similar to our own. One of these uncomfortable parallels is today's increased ...
... the war that forged a nation
1858: Abraham Lincoln
1912
1943: the victory that never was
1948 by Benny Morris
1984
1999: Victory Without War
Sorry, touchstones for year titles are a bit dodgy!
... Orange. Kitchen-sink realist comedy. In Russia. Funny.
1985 - syndicalism gone mad. And lots of essays about Orwell's 1984 . Methinks he tries too hard...
One Hand Clapping - more kitchen-sink stuff. Only it isn't because the main character wins a fortune on a TV quiz and then can't ...
i just found out about this website a few days ago and when i saw the 999 challenge i knew i had to be a part of it. i don't think the challenge is so much in reading the books as in narrowing it down to which books you will read! i'm having a hard time picking nine categories but figured i can ...
... - Rudyard Kipling (July)
7. "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" - Thomas Hardy (July)
8. "Nineteen Eighty Four " - George Orwell
9. "The Stranger" - Albert Camus (Sept.)
Memoirs/Personal Essays
1. "Eat, Pray, Love" ...
53. Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
... was, what an easy read and how much humour there is, especially in the early part of the book. It is very different from 1984 which is often mentioned alongside, because as well as the humour, the society presented here is supposed to be a Utopia and happiness is its ultimate goal. The book ...
... Orwell works. Tonight I'm rereading Animal Farm, and I need to get to the library in the next couple of days to pick up 1984 (I'm not sure what happened to our copy). Since I clearly left this until the last minute, it's a good thing they're both short and both rereads!
... 1980's
144. Under the Volcano, Malcom Lowry, 1960's
145. *The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene, 2006
146. 1984, George Orwell , 1960's
147. The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen, 1970's
148. I, Robot, Isaac Asimov, 1960's
149. The Grass is Singing, Doris Lessing, 1970' ...
... 1980's
144. Under the Volcano, Malcom Lowry, 1960's
145. *The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene, 2006
146. 1984, George Orwell , 1960's
147. The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen, 1970's
148. I, Robot, Isaac Asimov, 1960's
149. The Grass is Singing, Doris Lessing, 1970' ...
... Rivas
18. Tomato Girl by Jayne Pupek
19. Eleven on Top by Janet Evanovich
20. Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich
21. 1984 by George Orwell
22. The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton
23. Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich
24. Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich
25. The Go ...
Because sf fans will only claim good books published as mainstream - 1984 , A Clockwork Orange, for example - for the genre.
Read WE yonks ago. I know it was seen as a forerunner of 1984 and BRAVE NEW WORLD but I found it rather tiresome. Maybe a so-so translation...hmmm, wait, I think was the Ginsburg translation so I doubt it. Just didn't grab me, I guess. You have more experience with the Russkies than I do, Gene ...
... the longest (well, I guess I'm committing to 12 out of 24.)
My List (not necessarily in the order I'll read them) :
1984 by George Orwell
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love in the ...
... part of humanity. I enjoyed the book and the juxtaposition of ideals and how they can be achieved.
I am now reading 1984 to get an alternative view of a possible future. Destructive to the individual in a different way and just as undesirable.
Last year I made 56 so 50 seems doable. I ...
OK, I'm going to give this a try. We'll see how well it turns out! You can go here for my blog post about my challenge.
Totally reworked this as I can't seem to stick to my ...
... something I posted on the 2008 group as well:
01. A Clockwork Orange
02. The Trial
03. Crime and Punishment
04. 1984
05. Siddhartha
06. Cat's Cradle
07. Anna Karenina
08. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
09. The Satanic Verses
10. The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galax ...
... 10 Reads This Year in no Order of Preference:
01. A Clockwork Orange
02. The Trial
03. Crime and Punishment
04. 1984
05. Siddhartha
06. Cat's Cradle
07. Anna Karenina
08. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
09. The Satanic Verses
10. The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galax ...
... Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
17. 50 Kattenspelletjes by Jackie Strachan
18. Mijn moeder by Georges Bataille
19. 1984 by George Orwell
20. Pages for you by Sylvia Brownrigg
21. My summer of love by Helen Cross
22. Onbegrepen by Karin Slaughter
23. Never say never ...
... 10 Reads This Year in no Order of Preference:
01. A Clockwork Orange
02. The Trial
03. Crime and Punishment
04. 1984
05. Siddhartha
06. Cat's Cradle
07. Anna Karenina
08. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
09. The Satanic Verses
10. The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galax ...
... all SF some escape, some become outdated but some are still classics that become 'might have beens' instaed of 'what ifs'. 1984 comes to mind.
Classics
1. Catch-22
2. Atlas Shrugged
3. Cantebury Tales
4. 1984
5. For Whom the Bell Tolls
6. The Grapes of Wrath
7. Watership Down
8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
9. A Tale of Two Cities
... chapters in The Devils of Loudun bemused me, he goes on a bit does Huxley.
For disturbing dystopias, you can't beat 1984 .
... Revisited Finished Apr 5
vi. Dubliners Finished May 31
vii. The Aeneid Finished June 25
viii. Dr Zhivago
ix. 1984
From applebook1's library I choose nineteen eighty four by George Orwell.... a book I keep meaning to read.
... Sophie Gee
6. The Letters of Noel Coward, Barry Day, ed.
5. The Bad Girl, Mario Vargas Llosa (Early Reviewers)
4. Nineteen-Eighty Four , George Orwell
3. Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter
2. Animal Farm, George Orwell
1. Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, Elizabeth Ro ...
I have read 1984
But I haven't read Holes
I've read the catcher in the rye
but I've never read 1984
... January; finished 17/4/09)
8. The Discovery of Chocolate - James Runcie (started 30/1/09; finished 31/1/09)
9. 1984 - George Orwell (30/6/09 - 3/7/09)
My top 5 for 2008 are:
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
1984 by George Orwell
The Thirteenth Tale by Dianne Setterfield
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The God of Small Things by Aundhati Roy
All of them pop lit I'm afraid... no hidden gems here!
... about societies, fictional or otherwise, who censor opinions of those they disagree with.... think the very dated, but true 1984 & Fahrenheit 451.
.. and talk to a few of the people here who either have private libraries or who haven't posted all of their books because of who might see them. ...
I just finished Darkness at Noon. I am reading Brave New World and 1984 is next.
I then have Gates of Fire and The Ten Thousand on my list.
I also just bought This Republic of Suffering and it is on the list.
I am also working my way through the Dave Robicheaux series by James L ...
LOL Sandy. Def read War and Peace it'll get you back into things. Or you can go with 1984 its good, fast, and you can say you read a classic.
I'm going to be reading nineteen eighty-four . Else, I will be trying 2001. I think I have a special thing for numbers lately.
... I certainly like the matter-of-fact way in which Orwell writes.
I'd previously only read Animal Farm and 1984 Homage to Catalonia and The Road to Wigan Pier .
... Its gotten to where we're not allowed to discuss any issues of importance. You are worse than the double speakers in 1984
Of course only white people are forced to observe political correctness
Clearly bringing immigrants as cheap wage slaves from the third world is at the very ...
... Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1984 by George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Lisey's Story by Stephen King
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Han ...
... of the Flies by William Golding
4. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
5. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
6. 1984 : A Novel by George Orwell
7. All The King's Men by Warren Robert Penn
All above were for a class ‘Politics in Literature’
8 .The Way We Never Were: America ...
... par 149 utilisateurs; la moyenne est beaucoup plus élevée, à cause des livres très populaires en tête de la liste (1984 , etc.).
#147: I loved 1984 and really made me think I hope you enjoy it and don't procrastinate into it :D
I'm still reading Inkheart (60 pages to go) it's just that I haven't had the time to finish it :S and I think I'm going to read Blade Runner coz a friend lend it to me and told me he ...
This one doesn't count as today, but tomorrow I will have 2001 and The pillars of the earth from the store, as well as Nineteen Eighty-Four from the library. So read this one again tomorrow...
Procrastinated into reading the book Angels and Demons, and Dune. Next on my list is Nineteen Eighty-Four .
I would nudge 1984 , Of Mice and Men and The Lizard Cage. Can't pick just one
... times. So if there is a tie, I can put a nudgoid on these.
Loved The Lizard Cage although that is not an upbeat read, 1984 is a must, Gabriel Garcia Marquez also should not be missed, and of course the Thoreau is important, Dickens is too, C.S. Forester is great fun..... Mmmmm.
I also nudge 1984 ..
That book made George Orwell one of my favorite authors..
Another nudge goes to 1984 bot only because it's a classic and so well known but because I myself only read it a few months ago and really enjoyed reading it. So it's a classic that lives up to it's fame!
... Walden. It's been one of my favorite non-fiction reads since I was in high school. Sorry to be contrary, but I hated 1984 with some vehemence, and therefore de-nudge that one. I'm always happy to recommend Robert B. Parker, but I wouldn't put Double Play high on the list of his works. ...
Absolutely, positively it must be Nineteen Eighty-four . This is one of those very rare books that I believe everyone must read.
... stories by
Hugo, Victor: Les Misérables
James, P.D: The Children of Men
Macchiavelli: The Prince
Orwell, George: 1984
Scalzi, John: Old Man's War
Singh, Simon: The Code Book
Solzenitsyn, Aleksandr: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Steinbeck, John: Tortilla Flat
Steph ...
Ok haven't included the last few books, so here they are.
1984 by George Orwell this is the first time I have ever read this book and the last part was a surprise to me. Not what I expected.
A Stranger to the Ground by Richard bach This wasn't like his other books and although it ...
... J Fox
4) Sunday at Tiffany's by James Patterson
5) The Conjurors Bird by Martin Davies
6) Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
... could happen. Nothing too hard to imagine.
I've read a lot of Neal Shusterman and really like him. I like the books 1984 , Hellbent, The Host, and The Giver. Things like that, or new ideas are awesome...
... trouble with that winnowing down process - there are lots of books set in the future, and at dates which have now passed. 1984 ...
70) Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell (audiobook)--This was my second Orwell, after 1984 in high school English. I thought this one was more interesting, but I'm not sure that I like the ending. I can't tell whether Orwell was saying that money buys happiness, or that having someone ...
... George: Silas Marner (or Mill on the Floss
2. Huxley, Aldus: Brave New World (Fantasy)
3. Orwell, George: 1984 (Fantasy)
4. Orwell, George: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
5. James, Henry: Portrait of a Lady
6. Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina
7. Dicke ...
... all the feral packs, and I believe discovers some books as well. Everyone speaks a very different form of English--like in 1984 or A Clockwork Orange--and I remember it stuck with me for days after I read it. It may have been recced on Neil Gaiman's blog.
94. 1984 by George Orwell
A futuristic tale of what the world is like in 1984 with Big Brother watching and people getting arrested for just thinking something bad and/or going against Big Brother.
After finishing it made me very glad that I was not born in the 1984 represented in this book, ...
94. 1984 by George Orwell
A futuristic tale of what the world is like in 1984 with Big Brother watching and people getting arrested for just thinking something bad and/or going against Big Brother.
After finishing it made me very glad that I was not born in the 1984 represented in this book, ...
... through a poignant time in one mans life.
Currently Reading:
A is for Alibi
Away Laughing on a Fast Camel
1984
Flowers for Algernon
1984 .
In high school, I was forced to read Jude the Obscure, Great Expectations and 1984 . In college, I was assigned Jane Austen's Persuasion for a freshman English class. I disliked all of these books. Coming back to them later in my life, when I had matured a little, I was pleased to find ...
to books I own or read long time ago are:
1984 by George Orwell (Science Fiction)
read long ago, is on my TBRR (to be re-read) pile
THE BOOK THIEF by Markus Zusak (Historical Fiction)
bought this month, TBR
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger (Fiction)
read long ago
THE ...
... Reading:
A is for Alibi
Away Laughing on a Fast Camel
Water for Elephants
The Vicar of Wakefield
1984
Finished Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Will have to read more Huxley. Liked it better than 1984 and I'm a big George Orwell fan. But I've always thought Orwell's nonfiction was far superior to his fiction.
About 60 pages into An Albany Trio by William Kennedy. Unsure ...
... for The Chrysalids are - some more Wyndham and some very popular sci fi books like A Canticle for Leibowitz, 1984 and On the Beach.
Late 60s, high school, we also read Orwell's1984 and Huxley's Brave New World. Another one was Karel Capek's R.U.R. Rossum's Universal Robots. I think there must have been others but can't recall what they were offhand. We changed literature classes each term. They were all ...
... that a lot of his comments seem very dated now. Unlike everyone else though, I actually do enjoy reading his work - and 1984 was quite a seminal book for me when I first read it. I even found Down and Out in Paris and London fascinating, although less my cup of tea...
63) G. K. Cheste ...
... that a lot of his comments seem very dated now. Unlike everyone else though, I actually do enjoy reading his work - and 1984 was quite a seminal book for me when I first read it. I even found Down and Out in Paris and London fascinating, although less my cup of tea...
63) G. K. Cheste ...
I liked We by Zamyatin. It reminded me of 1984 , as well as Fahrenheit 451, which is probably my favorite dystopian.
I really enjoyed Divided Kingdom, probably more than We. The ending worked for me.
... Some of these books are readily recognized as science (or speculative) fiction that somehow transcends the genre (e.g., 1984 , Brave New World). Others get a "get out of the science fiction section free" card by merit of having an author known better for other things (e.g., A Handmaid's Ta ...
... by Liam Callanan
2. Time Machine
3. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
4. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
5. 1984 by George Orwell
6. Animal Farm by George Orwell
7. Slaughterhouse 5
8. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
9. Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
notablebooks.bl ...
1984 , I read it about once every ten years, most recently last spring for a class. (I am a very non-traditional student at Miami University) I regret I had not read To Kill A Mockingbird before that class. I can see reading that one over and over.
If Huck Finn is as good as The Amazing J ...
... and how writing affects politics and everyday life. Obviously, Orwell writes on these topics in his Animal Farm and 1984 novels, but these essays were published for a different purpose. They are fascinating to read because they give the most direct insight into Orwell's own evolving ...
... by burning human beings. "Forget them," says a character in Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 — a book, like Orwell's 1984 , that is haunted by memories of 1930s totalitarianism. "Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean."
Lucien X. Polastron's Books on Fire: The D ...
... writer. He brings to mind Yevgeny Zamyatin and We. Still that book was the main inspiration for Brave New World and 1984 . The line between social satire and SF is often blurry. Part I think of the dialogue between SF and mainstream lit.
... enacted, several Star Trek scripts. That was cool. (I got to be Chekhov.)
High school brought Alas, Babylon, 1984 , 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and Fahrenheit 451.
Outside reading in SFnal fields was rampant, of course!
1984 still has the church rhyme which has been running through my head for years! An interesting film version was made in 1984, in London, and was Richard Burton's last film. It's awfully close to the storyline, but I found seeing it worked well for me as opposed to rereading the novel.
Oh Flossie, I agree with you about 1984 and Animal Farm. I read the former at my mother's urging and just HATED it. Winston and his icky leg ulcers - a picture I'll never get out of my head - and the other was not much better for me. (Congrats on the 75.)
... I'm maybe the wrong reader for this as I have never been that fond of Orwell - disliked Animal Farm, couldn't finish 1984 - so this is one of those occasions where I was definitely swayed by the packaging! The concept of the first essay, which gave the book its title, coupled with the ...
... have a teacher that used science fiction? I realize there are a few classics (Bradbury's Martian Chronicles, Orwell's 1984 , Huxley's Brave New World, etc), but anything else?
Just wondering ...
I'm using 1984 in a Modern European History class this spring, by the way.
... Letter
Crime and Punishment
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Perfume
Hamlet
The Alchemist
No Exit or 1984
Poetry by Wordsworth and Plath
Select fiction by Achebe, Cisneros, Flannery O'Connor, and Joyce
I think it's a fair sampling--a lot better ...
... books for O Level). We also read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich when we were 12. The other O level books were 1984 and a varied collection of short stories (which included a Ray Bradbury short story).
I would have thought a modern best-seller (let alone a YA book) would have ...
From the "Friends of the Library Book Sale" today I bought,1984 , Murder in the Cathedral, Midsummer Nights Dream, Pygmalion, The First Men in the Moon, Dead Cert, Bonecrack, They did it with Mirrors, Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul,Othello, As You Like It, The Taming of the Sh ...
... of the original Dystopian novels. If you want to get a feel for the literature that influenced Brave New World and 1984 , this is the book to read.
-- M1001
... not academic!). Only 2 were books that I would recommend to a friend and the are classics which everyone has heard of:
1984 by George Orwell
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1984 well what's not to recommend? However what made it extra special was that ...
... Bronte
Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Love of the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
I enjoyed all of them. Slaughter House Five made me feel like I had missed a vital part of the story but I have no desire to re- ...
1. Nineteen Eighty-Four
2. Ender's Game
3. Brisingr
4. The Search for the Red Dragon
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns
>45: Shadow of the Wind was a stunning read, eh?
Oh well. I hated it. Loved 1984 and A Clockwork Orange, but hated Brave New World.
... splinter groups in Barcelona were fighting each other instead of managing to unite successfully against the fascists). His 1984 and Animal Farm are excellent examples of a writer raising some wonderful political questions --I always prefer questions to answers -- without stooping to ...
... art. That's a defining moment or an epiphany. Picasso's murals at the 1937 French exposition or Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984
and Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls all are all directly come from their experience and of the Spanish Civil War. They all had the skill and passion to create ...
... Things Fall Apart.
My husband, sitting beside me, is bemoaning the omission of Brave New World--he'd prefer it over 1984 . He also wanted to see Trainspotting (he figures that if you can cater to the SF crowd, you could cater to the sex-drugs-rock-n-roll crowd). He also would happily ...
I'm planning on re-reading 1984 this year. The last time I read it was in high school, and I'm sure I'll appreciate it even more the second time 'round.
... don't have to apologize for what you read!
Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens: Like most people my age I read 1984 and Animal Farm many years ago an considered that was Orwell. Not too long ago I went to a lecture by Anthony Bourdain (the chef on TV--much neater in person!) and ...
Last year I took a course on dystopian novels and we read: Darkness at Noon, Nineteen Eighty-four , Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, and one that hasn't been mentioned yet, Bend Sinister, by Nabokov. (I guess my university sees Animal Farm as dystopian, despite what has been said here.)
I ...
I am reading mostly textbooks this week but am also reading McSweeney's Issue 22 and to build up my defenses rereading 1984
Thanks to Gustav, I got some reading down as my power was out for 6 days.
16. 1984 by George Orwell
17. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
18. Amsterdam: A Novel by Ian McEwan
Wow, I read some depressing stuff....
... New World by Aldous Huxley - disappointing, in fact I'd even go as far as to say boring. Nothing like the standard of Nineteen Eighty Four .
9 Spanish Steps by Tim Moore - thought I would love this... but didn't. Funny in places but a bit long-winded.
Won't go any further back ...
Re; 1,001
I have just finished 1984 , which brings me to 11/8 in the 1,001 category.
However this is only the 4th book that does not overlap:
1. Oscar & Lucinda, P Carey
2. The Floating Opera, John Barth
3. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
4. 1984 , George Orwell
5 ...
... I can see why it's included on the 1001 list - as it is supposedly a sort of role model for both Brave New World and 1984 .
Next up is The Clock Winder by Anne Tyler.
O authors . . . definitely George Orwell . I think Nineteen Eighty-four is one of the most important books on the list, and I also think Animal Farm is brilliant. Not on the 1001 list, but also great is Down and Out in Paris and London.
Honourable mention to Michael Ondaatje, ...
... from the Time-Life series
3) Andersen's Fairy Tales
4) Dreamsongs by George RR Martin
Next on the list:
5) 1984 by George Orwell (reread)
6) The Shelters of Stone by Jean M. Auel
7) Skeleton Coast by Clive Cussler
8) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
9) The Great Hu ...
... kinson
Six sacred stones by Matthew Reilly
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
I sing the body electric by Ray Bradbury
1984 by George Orwell
What I talk about when I talk about running by Haruki Murakami
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon.
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
1984 by George Orwell.
I've started a re-read of Nineteen Eighty Four , so know I will enjoy it :)
... reference material) in hand or on screen to do both.
(Off the top of my head I can think of two exceptions for myself (1984 and A Tale of Two Cities); I imagine that these are probably among the most common cases. Oh, and the Bible, if you count only the actual text and not any ...
... they aren't particularly good first/last words - no one is going to be trotting them out like they do the first words of 1984 or Neuromancer or Steel Beach.
ok well im not really BIG on rereading. i've only reread 2 books Of Mice and Men and 1984 . i also might have to reread the first half of voyager. i started reading it and finally put it down but never got to finish it. i think its been like a year.
"’It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking Thirteen."
1984 , George Orwell
... by Meg Cabot
Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Around the World in 18 Holes by Tom Callahan
1984 by George Orwell
The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Neil Gaiman
... and Last Words fields, the latter definitely has the potential to be a spoiler. The first book that springs to mind is 1984 . Knowing the ending (even just the last sentence) could ruin the book for some people.
... It's an early Russian sci fi novel about a totalitarian state, very much, clearly, a predecessor to Brave New World and 1984 . Needless to say, it didn't go over very well with the Soviet authorities at the time.
I'm enjoying it quite a bit. Hallucinatory, descriptive writing. Not much on ...
... of Winter by Marya Hornbacher
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
The Cat Who Cried for Help by Nicholas Dodman
1984 by George Orwell
Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole
I very much enjoyed Sprig Muslin & Eight Cousins. Both were fun reads. I didn't realize I had read so much ...
... list starts in 1948 and ends in 1984. This was an sf version of Anthony Burgess 99 Novels; 3 novels make both lists - 1984 ,Pavane & Riddley Walker.
I would have to say 1984 (for some reason I enjoy being depressed), Greybeard, Ender's Game, and A Wrinkle in Time.
... I am good and impressed by the list of 100 SF novels contained there. So impressed I reproduce it here:
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
George R. Stewart - Earth Abides
Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles
Robert A. Heinlein - The Puppet Masters
John Wyndham - The Day of ...
... to discuss about it, apart from how much everyone liked/ disliked it. Magical realism has never really been my thing.
Nineteen eighty-four , is also an August read, and I would like to re-read it, but inbetween I think I am going to try for one of my 888-challenge books- The Bourne Identity ...
2&9: I am jealous.
I was happy when I got White Oleander, A Clockwork Orange, Reading Lolita in Tehran, and 1984 . They're more common, but it took me a while to get them. & some of the classics. They seem to cost a small fortune, despite being everywhere.
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
...
--
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 {complete}
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 Man in the High ...
... 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)
- 1984 by 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 ...
Sad love stories
The god of small things
The English Patient
1984
Okay, it's been a day. Anyone mind if I kick-start this game? I'm lookin' for the first caller who has read Nineteen Eighty-four .
Went to the library and picked up:
1984 by George Orwell
Ask a Mexican by Gustavo Arellano
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
... of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
1984 by George Orwell
Honorable mention to Saturday by Ian McEwan.
... wondering about your Top 3 wishlist books for books to be bought.
Here's mine:
2001
Ultimate Hitchhiker's guide
1984
I'm curious about yours, let me know..
Here's my list, in order (though the ranking was sometimes sort of arbitrary and will be revised later):
1. 1984
2. The Bible
3. The Iliad
4. The Epic of Gilgamesh
5. Hamlet
6. The Chronicles of Narnia
7. Lord of the Rings
8. Pride and Prejudice
9. His Dark Materials
10 ...
... The first 5 are in order, after that it's free-for-all.
The Great Gatsby
The Grapes of Wrath
The Secret History
1984
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
And Then There Were None
To Kill A Mockingbird
His Dark Materials
Good Omens
From Russia With Love
Small Gods
Mur ...
... dark materials - 3 lists
Lord of the rings - 3 lists
Pride and Prejudice - 3 lists
The secret history - 2 lists
Nineteen eighty four - 2 lsits
And then there were none - 2 lists
To kill a mockingbird - 2 lists
Jane Eyre - 2 lists
The poisonwood bible - 2 lists
Catch 22 ...
... dark materials - 3 lists
Lord of the rings - 3 lists
Pride and Prejudice - 3 lists
The secret histroy - 2 lists
Nineteen eighty four - 2 lsits
And then there were none - 2 lists
To kill a mockingbird - 2 lists
Jane Eyre - 2 lists
The poisonwood bible - 2 lists
Catch 22 ...
... Augusten Burroughs
Blindness by Jose Saramago
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
1984 by George Orwell
and more than a few runners-up.
Author Winners of the Most Disturbing Book (which means their 'votes' were divided between several of their titles) ...
I'm sure I'll revise this later, but for now:
1984
The Bible
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Iliad
Hamlet
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Odyssey
Lord of the Rings
Le Petit Prince
Pride and Prejudice
The Watch by Dennis Danvers
Expendable by James Alan Gardner
Calculating God by Robert J Sawyer
1984 by George Orwell
Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
I chose these books because they highlight the core concept of sci-fi: speculative or extrapolative writing that can involve ...
1984 ?
You are so lucky to have encountered We in high school, Damiella. I couldn't believe how much of. 1984 was based off of We. 1984 is as a mirror in the dark. (Note: this doesn't mean that I think less of 1984 . Borrowing from other works is traditional in literature.)
I have just read Co ...
You are so lucky to have encountered We in high school, Damiella. I couldn't believe how much of. 1984 was based off of We. 1984 is as a mirror in the dark. (Note: this doesn't mean that I think less of 1984 . Borrowing from other works is traditional in literature.)
I have just read Co ...
Laaggggggg... Edit to remove dupe post
since everyone here seems to like 1984 i thought i'd mention 1985 by burgess.
...
21. R.L. Stevenson - Treasure Island
22. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
23. Bram Stoker - Dracula
24. George Orwell - 1984 (my year of birth...)
25. George Orwell - Dierenboerderij ( Animal Farm )
26. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles
27. H.G. Wells - War of ...
O'Brien in Nineteen-eighty four
"Bayonet Bill" Wooster in The One-eyed man by Larry L. King
... of Autumn Twilight and found that it wasn't quite as magical as I remembered (which sucks). I also started re-reading 1984 , and maybe because I remember the book so well from a decade ago, I couldn't get into it. It was the first book that opened my eyes to the power of literature and I'm ...
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
1984 by George Orwell
Bushwacked by Molly Ivins
Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head by B. Kliban
Don't Sweat The Small Stuff by Richard Carlson
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
... who never read science fiction before asked me for recommendations, first I'd wonder to myself how this person never read 1984 , if only because a teacher really should have told him to at some point. Then I'd do exactly the same thing I would do for any other Readers' Advisory session: ask ...
... be permanently depressed about the human race. Of the ones you reviewed, I have read Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, 1984 andFahrenheit 451, but that was spread out over a couple years.
I've also read We and since you haven't tackled that one yet, I'll give it a shot. Bear in mind ...
... Fall.
In the song "Clash City Rockers", Joe Strummer references the nursery rhyme "London Bells" which was a motif in "1984 ". Joe Strummer's previous band The 101ers is an allusion to the torture chamber in 1984.
Shane McGowan's entire career is a "tribute" to Brendan Behan.
TH ...
... has to obey being a good grad student and all).
FAVORITE BOOK(s): War and Peace (no joke), Lord of the Rings, 1984 , Brave New World, Vurt, Snow Crash, Contact, Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of the Second Order (again no joke), Pixel Juice, plus many others... ...
... to cite defense from foreign aggression as an excuse for its continued legitimacy. Do not forget what Orwell wrote about in 1984 . The legitimacy of the government of Oceania was based on the existence of outside government aggression, like Eurasia or East Asia, as the looming threat. Even in ...
only three letters, though... must be the newspeak keyboard, circa 1984 .
Maybe it's code?
... tend to like dystopias like The Giver.
To be fair, I haven't read much science fiction. A few classic titles like 1984 and Brave New World. I tried to read Hitchhiker's Guide but couldn't do it. The feminist in me just bristles at science fiction. These authors can imagine such ...
... Summer of a Forsyte" ****
by John Galsworthy
01/27/08
The Jungle ***
by Upton Sinclair
01/27/08
†1984 (#15) ****
by George Orwell
01/29/08
White Noise **½
by Don DeLillo
01/30/08
Can't really see what the hubbub is about - can anyone enlighten me?
Let's see:
Dolores Claiborne
The Lovely Bones
Perfume (the movie was pretty rough, too)
1984 (unsettling, but I loved it)
Oh, forgot to add The Handmaid's Tale
I would advise against Ender's Game, and 1984 . I read both of these in highschool and again in college. 1984 scared the shit out of me, and I'm not sure a sixth grader would really understand the book. I remember reading Martian Chronicles in middle school and being bored out of my mind.
Pride and Prejudice followed by Jane Eyre and then The Life of Pi. I'm not counting 1984 which I know I had, but, as I'm not sure whether its up in the attic or was wiped out in the basement flood, it ain't getting on the list.
My most popular book is 1984 , followed by To Kill a Mockingbird, Brave New World, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Catch 22. Interestingly, I've had all these books since the 60s or early 70s and, when I continue down my list of "most shared" books I see that I have to get well down ...
... Bradley
Empire Star by Samuel Delany
Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold (may be too mature for some)
1984 by Orwell (same as above)
Expendable by James Allen Gardner
My two most shared are The Hobbit and 1984 .
I haven't entered my copy of HP and the Sorcerer's Stone, so it's not my "most shared" book. 1984 is my most shared, closely followed by The Catcher in the Rye (touchstone not working) and Pride and Prejudice.
... already been too much, so I will take leave here, without speaking of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Borges, Orwell's 1984 , or Sartre's Nausea (which was fundamental but in a negative way).
As an Art historian I find it even more difficult to speak of paintings and sculptures, ...
Nineteen-Eighty Four : Proof that Literature can exist without a Dragon in it.
Beowulf: Proof that Literature can exist WITH a Dragon in it.
The Origin of Species: Proof that Dragons would have died out due to natural selection, even if they did exist.
... about books that just 'weren't your style' or were things you didn't like. I personally hated every second I spent reading 1984 , I never want to see it again, and I really cringe when I know high school students are reading it. BUT, it's amazingly well written. It is (despite me not liking it) ...
No, that's fine. The 1984 opening is the only one I know from memory!
Surely #1 is the first line of 1984 ?
... never get to!
All ya need to do is state that ONE book, and polish that one off! Looks like you'd better dig out your 1984 !
Where we go from there is up to us.......
How about Nineteen-Eighty Four ...
Connections with...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows?
... Cid, agh!). It's one of those classics that I suppose I'll have to read some day...
Hmmm... some others of mine:
1) 1984 : bought it, started it, didn't finish it.
2) Animal Farm: Ditto.
3) The Catcher in the Rye
4) Brave New World
#39 Alanna, I think that film may very well ...
I've recently knocked 2 off the list that have been there for a long time 1984 and Fahrenheit 451.
A Brave New World, is another that fits in there I need to read, and I really need to try something by Heinlein
... ? Yes, that works: "the cake bible" by Rose Levy Beranbaum. Ok, maybe it's not a christian conspiracy.
>#2: BNW and also 1984 went on my list many years ago for similar reasons. When i finally read them, I wasn't overly impressed by BNW but 1984 did become one of my favourites.
... Show by author .
Showing by title would list the books alphabetically, as Tim wants. I guess this will mean that 1984 and A brief history of time will probably be there, and it will probably be fairly meaningless to most power users, but perhaps others will like it. (My library ...
... by William Goldman
The queen's fool by Philippa Gregory
30 days of night : a novelization by Tim Lebbon
1984 : a novel by George Orwell
Eaters of the dead by Michael Crichton
Burning up by Caroline B. Cooney
Blind instinct by Robert W. Walker
1984 :
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
Doh! How could I forget:
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs (A concept album based on 1984 .)
Future Sound of London - Dead Cities
I was also tempted to list the Eurythmics - 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother) soundtrack, but since there was so much controversy around it...
... 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 read Children of Men-I wanted so much to like that one ...
... The pithy prose adds a lot to the dry, concise humor of the book. I laughed out loud every couple of pages.
#2: 1984 by George Orwell. I may be one of the few who didn't read this in high school. I've been out for eight years, so I'm well overdue on reading this one. I was glad ...
... the time, so it was the 'idea' of cutting up bodies and sewing them together that was shocking.
Having said that, I think 1984 is excellent. Jack London has been mentioned, he wrote a very ineresting book about people living in the East-end of London called The people of the abyss, and I ...
... the hotel *may* be attributed to supernatural agents.
Just after I posted the thread, I began wondering why I included 1984 , because it doesn't really include sci-fi or fantasy elements. It's interesting, because if you look at the tag cloud for the book, over 1000 people have tagged it ...
I have to admit that I've always identified with Winston Smith from George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' . I know that sounds very weird but I'm an INFJ and, thinking about it, I can't help feeling that Winston was too. Also Andrew Manson, the young, idealistic doctor in A.J. Cronin's 'T ...
... Five
2001: A Space Odyssey
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Solaris
Foundation
I, Robot
1984
The Little Prince
The Hobbit
Brave New World
The War of the Worlds
The Invisible Man (by H.G. Wells)
Dracula
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Time Ma ...
... I decided to burn through my Barnes and Noble gift card.
I've finally replaced my long lost copies of Animal Farm and 1984 .
I also picked up The Devil in the White City. I've been looking that one over forever.
I, too, have to go with 1984 .
... unn
24. Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor
25. Seventh Heaven, Alice Hoffman
26. The Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum
27. Nineteen Eighty Four , George Orwell
28. The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson
29. Death in a Strange Country, Donna Leon
30. Half a Yellow Sun, C N Adichie
31. Bird ...
... subject of "science fiction". Here the most common are:
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
Nineteen eighty-four by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
So one can some differences in perceptions by words that are almost the same.
Does 1984 count as a classic?
TPBM is reading a murder Mystery
... read it. A little depressing at times but fascinating in its own way. We by Yevgeny Zamnyatin. Orwell based his book 1984 on this. Has many parallels, but a slightly more uplifting ending.
Cheers.
... about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.” (Although the first line of Nineteen Eighty-four is also excellent: “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” You just know something is wrong with this world.)
Nineteen Eighty-four
George Orwell
What is there left to say about Nineteen Eighty-four that hasn't already been said! In this novel, Orwell created the uber-dystopia. This is the most depressing and hopeless society of any of these books because the state’s control is so complete (e.g ...
... by Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
And,
Homage to Catalonia, Animal Farm, and Nineteen Eighty-four , all by George Orwell. Homage to Catalonia is Orwell’s memoirs of the Spanish Civil War, which gave him the idea to write the other two novels. Be ...
... by Michael Ondaatje
62. Keep The Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
63. Animal Farm by George Orwell
64. 1984 by George Orwell
65. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
66. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
67. Don Quixote by Cervantes
68. Contact by Car ...
I finally finished all that dystopic fiction (Nineteen Eighty-four , The Handmaid's Tale, and six others) and I really, really needed something completely different, so I'm giving The Pursuit of Love, by Nancy Mitford a try. I just noticed, however, that it was written the same year that Or ...
... see how it can be a feminist text, because it means the patriarchy wins. I prefer not to give it that reading.
Now, Nineteen Eighty-four . . . that's one where I can not work out a positive ending. If there is any hope at all (he does still have memories, even though he denies them), it ...
... just broken up.
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Haunted: A novel by Chuck Palahniuk
Plus there's the Uglies trilogy by Scott Westerfeld which was very well ...
... by Shyam Selvadurai
70. Enduring Love, by Ian McEwan
71. The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
72. Nineteen Eighty-four , by George Orwell
73. The Roman Conspiracy, by Jack Mitchell
74. Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl
75. Approaching 1984, ...
... list:
The Black Dahlia
Interview with a Vampire
To Kill a Mockingbird
Foundation
The Catcher in the Rye
1984
The Little Prince
Brave New World
Dracula
There were a couple that I know I've started, but I couldn't remember if I'd finished, such as Slaughterhouse 5 ...
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
Ninteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
I read quite a few more but there's the five that I'm going to throw in a mention ...
... two that really stuck in my craw were the ability of an author to update a book you've already bought. It just sounds so 1984 -ish.
The other was that advertising could more easily be integrated and updated in an e-book. In what way is that an advantage? I've been reading books my entire ...
... and the 'personal' that divides the two writers. Much of Orwell's work, even beyond the obvious Animal Farm and 1984 , deals with the socio-political climate of his time - he is writing to make a specific point about a political viewpoint/ideology. Kafka, on the other hand, is more ...
... Carlos. I had been thinking that Orwellian was definitely worse, because of the deliberately cruel exercise of power in 1984 . But you start from the other perspective, and I can see your point in doing so. As in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, it was generally possible for an ordinary person to stay ...
Great answers, both of you. I'm glad I asked.
I just found this definition in a book titled "The Language of 1984 " by W. F. Bolton. This is what he (she?) says about "Orwellian": usually an adjective modifying "nightmare" . . . has become shorthand for ruthless oppression.
Yes, definitely ...
... esp. of the totalitarian state depicted in his dystopian account of the future, Nineteen Eighty-four. Can you describe Nineteen Eighty-four , or other Orwell books, as Kafkaesque? Can Franz Kafka's writing be described as Orwellian?
Are the terms somewhat interchangeable, or distinct?
I just finished reading Nineteen Eighty-four , and I have to say it is one of the bleakest books I've ever read. I'm a fan of George Orwell--I appreciate his straight forward, no-nonsense writing style, and I think he's a brilliant individual with a lot to say. But yikes! This one was a bit much. W ...
... Harper Lee
Animal Farm by George Orwell
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
1984 by George Orwell
Emma by Jane Austen
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Beloved ...
... it has complexities that only surface upon rereading. The hero-narrator, Roy, may be compared favorably with Winston from 1984 . This is a book that deserves to be better known.
...
Dracula by Bram Stoker and Carmilla by J Sheridan Lefanu
The very best in classic Gothic vampire horror.
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Two very different, yet similar, views of the future.
The Jungle Books by Rudyar ...
I left Gilead (The Handmaid's Tale) and now I'm in Oceania with George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four . After this I'm looking forward to going somewhere more real and not so grim.
... I can see is 9 for Adjunct.
I found three higher than Pride and Prejudice:
The Catcher in the Rye at 14,865
1984 at 15,171
and the grand champion:
The Hobbit at 16,153
... who are not familiar, Zamyatin's 1921 dystopian novel (Yevgeny Zamyatin's We) is known to have inspired Orwell's 1984 and is believed by some to have influenced others including Huxley (who bristled at the suggestion) and Rand. The book is recommended to fans of dystopian fiction, as ...
I have read, and quite enjoyed, 1984 .
The person below me is a Stevie Wonder fan.
... Machiavelli
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Persuasion by Jane Austen
1984 by George Orwell
Total Cost: $11.89US
Following is a list from LT of the ten most popular books, at least one of whose subject headings is London--fiction.
1984 by George Orwell (15,120 copies)
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (7,548 copies)
The golden compass by Philip Pullman (6,948 copies)
...
... Maybe it is "for her own good," but I dont want anyone making those kind of decisions for me.
Also, who can forget 1984 ? Winston and the Rat Cage. Again, not people we want to be like.
...
"feed" by m.t. anderson
"it can't happen here" by sinclair lewis
"brave new world" by aldous huxley
"1984 " by george orwell
and i have to second...third...or whatever "the road" by cormac mccarthy it was mind and life altering...
Just to let you know - you have listed 1984 / Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell twice (once in numbers and once in letters). You have room for one more book on your list! ;)
Good list though - I've read 21 of them so far and have about another dozen (at least) sitting on my shelf ...
... by author, # recommendations)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee, Harper, 16
The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, John, 15
1984 by Orwell, George, 15
Brave New World by Huxley, Aldous, 14
Beloved by Morrison, Toni, 13
Gone with the Wind by Mitchell, Margaret, 13
Lolita by Nabokov, Vl ...
The books 1984 , the tripod trilogy starting with The White Mountains, Cosmic Contemplations, Planet of the Apes and Fahrenheit 451 are all great sci fi reads you can't go wrong with.
^ I love many of those you mention, especially 1984 and "On the Beach".
Have you tried Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents? They're more along the lines of The Handmaid's Tale, in terms of being not as far off from our present-day as something like Br ...
I was 17 when I first read the handmaid's tale and it completely blew me away! After that 1984 and brave new world and I was hooked on dystopias. I seemed to have progressed into post-apocalyptic now and one of the first ones I read was On the Beach, which actually made me cry (I'm such a ...
... Last Starhip From Earth"
This book has several familar themes in it.Themes that bring to mind brave New World by Huxley, 1984 by Orwell, The World Inside by Silverburg (which came out two years later),the Eyes of Heisenberg by Herbert, Methuselah's Children by Heinlein. Even a movie "TXH ...
... by Enid Blyton and Misreadings by Umberto Eco in the mail today from bookswap.
I also found a good copy of 1984 by George Orwell yesterday and bought it...
Does anyone else wonder why classics (including modern classics) have such crap covers? Surely publishers can put a ...
... of "oh, my (insert deity who may or may not exist) listen to this.."
Wasn't shocked by Haunted, Lord of the Fliesor 1984 . Probably because I poured over my mom's medical texts when I was little and was just fascinated by pictures of compound fractures and abnormal growths. And I grew ...
1984 .
... of Dune by Frank Herbert
To say nothing of the dog, or, How we found the bishop's bir… by Connie Willis
1984 by George Orwell
Ender's game by Orson Scott Card
hmm, Children of Dune in top 10, ahead of Dune, that's social value.
I read both 1984 and Brave New World back-to-back. I finished both, but I can understand why you had problems with 1984 . It is VERY depressing. As such, that might be why I prefer Brave New World .
I'd like to hear everyones' opinions about 1984 by George Orwell. I wouldn't call it awful per se, but I just couldn't get through it. I loved Animal Farm but I just couldn't get through 1984. It was just so bleak and depressing I just couldn't finish it. Does anyone else find that the ...
... around to writing about it here.
Currently I'm studying Dystopic fiction, so in the next month I will compare some of 1984 , Darkness at Noon, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Bend Sinister, Fahrenheit 451, The Trial, We, The Handmaid's Tale and/or Brave New World.
I've never read 1984 either, nor Brave New World, nor Slaughterhouse Five. I have only very recently read To Kill a Mockingbird and I am reading The Grapes of Wrath right now. All of those are in the embarassed to have not read category for me.
Now, I can't say that I think The Lord ...
... was incredibly readable and I would recommend it to anyone.
Last night at Borders I had a voucher so I decided to buy 1984 . Believe it or not they didn't have it! Not one copy, but they did have about 50 copies of Animal Farm from various publishers. I was really peeved.
... I do feel bad at all, it's about books I haven't finished because I didn't enjoy them for whatever reason. One of those is 1984 . I didn't like where it was going so I stopped right before the third part started. I'll probably pick it up again though. It was maybe just the wrong time to read it.
... to look forward to knowing there are more out there.
But if I think about what I'm surprised I haven't read yet I'd say 1984 , Frankenstein, and Of Mice and Men.
I haven't read 1984 either, so you're not alone. But not for long, as I have to read it within a few weeks because it's the key novel in a course that I'm taking.
Anyway, shame isn't an emotion that I feel in connection with books. There are a bazillion books, and a zillion good ones, and no ...
I haven't read...
1984
Anything by Steinbeck
Jane Eyre
And feel like the last person on Earth not to have!
#19: You might be right in suspecting such a plan might be too authoritarian. I can't help but imagine Winston from 1984 doing his morning exercises in front of his two-way tv screen. It's an interesting idea of having employers being designated with the responsibility for providing quality ...
... tons'
Dreams never end, a collection of short stories;
Schadenfreude- Pussycat - a gift flick-cartoon-strip book;
1984- York Notes ; and
The Wuffler and the Querk a children's story book
Ps. to do the Touchstones you put things in the square brackets
... book she based that on, Little Women, is not, though they are set in the same time period.
Hmm, makes you think: was 1984 transformed from science fiction to historical fiction in 1985? ;-))
#66 & 70 I also Have not read 1984 , but I just finished Animal Farm and found it fairly entertaining to be so political. I guess because of the satire. My next few books are not on the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list, but are in my TBR pile which is just as big if not bigger. I'm ...
#66 I haven't read 1984 either. I picked up a second hand copy of it at the beginning of the year but I've decided that it's the typeset of the book and it's condition that's putting me off reading it. I need to get a better version.
... next week or so I'll reread Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies for a class that I'm taking, and then George Orwell's 1984 , which I've never read. (I feel like I'm the only person who has never read 1984.)
I plan on reading 1984 by George Orwell and The adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. (I can't believe those 2 books have been challenged or banned in the past...crazy).
Yes, it's incredibly scary. Interestingly, if you go to the Progressive & Liberal Group, the most commonly shared book is 1984 by George Orwell.
This site discusses how O.J. has been able to protect his pensions:
http://happycapitalist.blogspot.com/2006/11/oj-pensions-erisa-and-golf.html
... e
- Melancholy of Anatomy
- Salt: A World History
- The Dream Eater
- A Wrinkle In Time
- Brave New World
- 1984
This discussion has given me reading suggestions and then some. Thanks!
... to live far away from the "cameras everywhere" etc. I live in an extremely rural area and I don't feel anything close to 1984 .
It seems to me that sometimes the US is so liberal that it slips into conservative stances. We become *so* tolerant of everything that we become intolerant of ...
... just the ones off the top of my head. The profusion of sexual images reminds me of Brave New World though rather than 1984 .
Oooh, Nineteen Eighty Four is really good!
... atty
Pennywise the clown from Stephen King’s It
Hannibal Lecter from Thomas Harris’ novels
Big Brother from 1984
Alex in Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange
Dr. Christian Szell from Marathon Man by William Goldman
Francis Begbie in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting ...
... are autobiographies. The Annotated Alice, Name of the Rose, Dracula and Frankenstein are biographies, as well as 1984 and The Screwtape letters. Breakfast of champions is a biology book. Decamerone is about christianity. The Prince by Macchiavelli and Cryptonomicon are ...
... although I'm sure not for everyone
We - eh. It was okay... I used to read a lot of this kind of stuff in high school, 1984 , Brave New World, etc. So it was mildly nostalgic.
I haven't gotten to the others yet, but I have continued to down Eastern European and Russian lit: Heart of ...
... are autobiographies. The Annotated Alice, Name of the Rose, Dracula and Frankenstein are biographies, as well as 1984 and The Screwtape letters. Breakfast of champions is a biology book. Decamerone is about christianity. The Prince by Macchiavelli and Cryptonomicon are ...
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2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
3. The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
4. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
5. 1984 by George Orwell
Wish me luck!
In a desperate attempt to reduce that ever growing to read pile I've gone through 1984 by George Orwell, The Devil in Amber by Mark Gatiss so far this week and am currently catching up with one of those books I should've read years ago The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.
... can specify the fields you want to search in. We don't want it to return every book published in 1984 when you search on "1984 ".
... who didn't care for Memoirs of a Geisha. To me, it read like an American white guy's fantasy of the life of a geisha. 1984 --a classic; can't go wrong there. I really hated House of Sand and Fog. I had no sympathy whatsoever for the main character, Kathy. Most of the time I was reading, ...
... at the bookstore:
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
1984 by George Orwell
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus
The March by E.L. Doctorow
The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
I also ...
So many good ones! Kudos to The Gunslinger, 1984 , and everything Douglas Adams!
One of my personal favorites is the very clever and instantly hooking intro to Howl's Moving Castle:
"In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really ...
... do I see yours on the Cuckoo's Egg or The Deadhouse pages. (I didn't really want to wade through all the reviews for 1984 or the apparently touchstone-proof Marley & Me.)
Is there anything these reviews had in common that distinguished them from the six that still show up on your ...
... by Antony Coburn
Foundation by Isaac Asimov - or does this count as a proper noun?
Triple by Ken Follett
1984 by George Orwell
... Right now I am reading M.T. Anderson's Feed. So far it is a little like Gossip Girl meets the Jetsons meets 1984 .
My Sister's Keeper and Nineteen Minutes both made me cry as well as A Thousand Splendid Suns got me choked up but not actually crying.
I just left Oceania where we were sometimes fighting Eurasia but other times fighting Eastasia in 1984 . I am in different places and time in Russia in The Blue Lantern and I am really loving it, so different after reading Anna Karenina two weeks ago.
... literature in the early-'70s and I understand the newer translation is truer to the original and I want to read it), 1984 (I'd read my parents' pulp cover paperback when I was in my teens and it bowled me over), and Gate to Women's Country which is my favorite of Tepper's books.
I'll ...
... She is my favorite author. I love the way she tackles such controversial pertinent topics . I have read so far: Plain Truth, Vanishing Acts, Tenth Circle, My Sister's Keeper, Second Glance, Nineteen Minutes and have to say I loved them all. I went to her book signing about a year ...
Some of my most owned books are:
The Harry Potters, The Hobbit, 1984 , Catcher in the Rye, Pride and Prejudice, To Kill a Mockingbird.
After HP, I have 1984 , Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, and Jane Eyre. I think I have most of the really common books on LT. I also have LotR and the Hobbit (obviously) but in a box set so they're not up there on my list.
#30 - Most shared that I have is The Hobbit, 13.680 copies ;-)
followed by 1984 , 12.845 copies
Catcher in the Rye, 12.587... why do I own this books? I don't like it!
...followed by the LoTR books, but the odd thing is American Gods manage to squeeze in between TTT and RoTK... How can ...
... reading the book first. But then I almost always find the film a disappointment.
Films that were as good as the book:
1984
Love and Death on Long Island
I can't think of any more.
... going on killing sprees.
Edit: Oh, and I LIKED the following books:
Catcher In The Rye - seriously saved me in HS
1984
Lord of the Flies
The Old Man and The Sea
Of Mice and Men - still makes me cry
I just graduated from college, so I recall all these books very well. I ...
September 18, 1984 : One by one, Matilda examined the 13 clocks in the drawing room of the Professor’s House. Could the secret history behind the professor's experiements involving the moonstone finally be revealed?
... for Canadian content. All Quiet on the Western Front was utterly pointless and a hideous read.
I didn't care for 1984 , and I don't consider it to be a great work of literature, but I know and respect the reason why it is included.
... Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson. Next up for fiction after The Grapes of Wrath will be either The Lizard Cage or 1984 .
... books analysing them in case you need help. :) The Turn of the Screw, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Great Gatsby, 1984 and The Yellow Wallpaper are all quite short and worth trying. Interview with the Vampire and Dracula are also both short and worth trying if you like vampire ...
... out I was all to desensitized to get overly excited about the book.
The other book that comes to mind is George Orwell's 1984 . When I was reading it I was working in a Federal Government field office with a lot of other people and i was struck by how my experience matched the book 1984, ...
... Zusak
2. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
3. Night by Elie Wiesel
4. World War Z by Max Brooks
5. 1984 by George Orwell
I just finished The Stranger and Slaughterhouse-five, and now I'm about halfway through 1984 . Catch-22 is next.
I too have made a promise to myself to read more classics this year.
... ebe.
This falls into a pile of "important" literature that leaves me less impressed than I should be. (That pile includes 1984 , Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, and probably some other stuff that I've succeeded in banishing to the recesses of memory.)
It utterly failed to capture my ...
Next up:
1984
The Grapes of Wrath
Bird Brains : the intelligence of crows, ravens, magpies and jays
Still reading The Assault on Reason and Grave Matters.
... by Elie Wiesel
18. Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones
19. The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones
20. 1984 by George Orwell
21. Whispering to Witches by Anna Dale
22. Erec Rex: The Dragon's Eye by Kaza Kingsley
23. Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
24. A Patch of Blue ...
... 'sf' to cover everything from science fiction and fantasy to dark fantasy, horror and all the myriad other smaller labels. 1984 is both horror and science fiction, as is Frankenstein. The Stand'possibly qualifies as science fiction, but uncomfortably - it's more fantasy, I think (all the ...
classics...
1984 by george orwell
emma by jane austen
walden by henry david thoreau
odyssey by homer
pnin by vladimir nabokov
politics...
politics by aristotle
utopia by thomas more
utilitarianism by john stuart mill
anthem by ayn rand ...
... Vile Village by Lemony Snicket
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
--1984 by George Orwell
... shoulders above most of the 'SF' books i could get my hands on at the time (though i disagree that it's "much better" than 1984 ; of course that is my personal opinion/taste, but really the two books are on different levels altogether).
But i seem to recall there was a sequel of sorts that was ...
1776 by David McCullough
1984 by George Orwell
The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Volume Two: 1928-1938 by Robinson Jeffers
Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s ed. Robert Polito
Enfants Terribles: Youth and Femininity in the Mass Media in France, 1945 ...
Went a little nuts at Powells, I'm starting a classics binge:
Anna Karenina
Sense and Sensibility
1984
Middlemarch
The Grapes of Wrath
and a historical book about 17th century New England, The Good Wives by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.
... C.S. Lewis's writing.) Or maybe liberals just read more fiction? I was also amused by the fact that our top shared book is 1984 .
I loved A Canticle for Leibowitz - much better than 1984 or Brave New World. That might have to do with the circumstances they were read under. Having a broader frame of reference within a genre tends to add to the pleasure of reading a great work within it, in my experience.
Nick Sagan ...
... read any other translations of it, so I have nothing to compare it to. There is some brief mention of it influencing 1984 in the introduction.
I have a question about We. I have heard of this as a source for 1984 but have never read it. I'd like to but I'm encountering several different English translations (Its a pity I don't speak Russian). Does anyone have favorite translation? Or failing that, is there a translation I should avoid? ...
... and fun and the deeper works. I like both and enjoy reading popular fiction as well as the great classics.
Like you 1984 was what hooked me. I first read it in 1983 when I was in High School. Everyone was talking about the book then and I wanted to read it before "The Year" itself ...
... will be mentioned. (i'm already scanning my shelves for more possible examples and favourites.)
My personal favourite is Nineteen Eighty-Four , with Brave New World and We racing for second place (much already noted about We's influence on 1984, and Orwell himself admitted that). These ...
I'm a fan of this type of Science Fiction and to be honest I'm looking for titles to read myself. My personal favorites are 1984 , A Canticle for Leibowitz and Brave New World
... titles. (Titles containing numbers, even starting with them, are okay. But just try to get recommendations based on 1984 without spelling it out and relying on the existence of spelled-out books in the combined work.
1984 - George Orwell
The Josephine Bonaparte Trilogy - Sandra Gulland
The Serpent Bride - Sara Douglass
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Can't actually rank them, and there are others I'd include. I seem to have had a ...
... tiresome to read though I read it in an evening.
20. Sgt. Frog - Vol #10
Manga - Sgt. Frog = Keroro
21. 1984 by George Orwell
Must-read, yes? It was an interesting/good read.
22. Mishima's Sword by Christopher Ross
Really loved this. I wouldn't say it's a ...
... circle thingy over their vowels.. and numbers, too. Try a work search on the title of Charles C. Mann's 1491 or 1984 .. you get nada.
I think this is known to Tim et al., but isn't currently a high priority :(
... hope they will eventually find their way back to me! *grin*.
Today I went to the second hand book store and picked up:
1984
A prayer for Owen Meany : a novel
Healing Flynn by Juliette Mead
and The speech of angels by Sharon Maas
... finished it this morning, so I'm currently in search of something else to read. I'm thinking something along the lines of 1984 , or something else on my TBR list, which I have yet to upload to my new computer...but I digress.
... than any real live drama in my life.
Late Adolescence:
Ayn Rand for Atlas Shrugged and George Orwell for Nineteen Eighty Four and If this is a man by Primo Levi and Animal Farm for making me think about political and social values - although I was reprimanded by my Univ ...
... to a woman, especially if the kind of story was something I knew the individual in question would enjoy. I would recommend 1984 or Brave New World to anyone, even though they mostly focus on male characters. Although The Handmaid's Tale concentrates on women, it is also about the impact of ...
Nineteen Varieties of Gazelle Naomi Shihab Nye
36 Views of Mt. Fuji Cathy N. Davidson
The 64 Square Looking Glass Burt Hochberg
911 Beauty Secrets Diane Irons
Hiroshige: 100 Famous Views of Edo Henry W. Smith
... Families:
The non-biological families is a common theme in Utopian societies. Two examples are Walden Two and Island. 1984 is another famous one. It deals with the theme of non-attachment. In some religions it is important to remove your attachment to all worldly things to achieve ...
1984
Around the World in 80 Days
The Crying of Lot 49
The 2% Solution}
101 People Who Are Screwing Up America
... Tale by Diane Setterfield
22. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
451. Farenheit 451 by Ray bradbury
1984. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
... Brave New World, and Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 a Space odyssey.
I've also have read George Orwell's 1984 , J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring (owned, but in a different edition), Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's Tale, Robert Heinlein's Stranger in ...
... out listening to an audio book on my walk to school, à la the Smurthwaitesian school of thought. Chose George Orwell's 1984 , because apparently it's a big deal, and will most likely start on it tomorrow, so we'll see how it goes!
... Josephine Tey
30. Queen Isabella - Alison Weir
31. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
32. 1984 - George Orwell
33. One Knight Stands - Jocelyn Kelley
34. Innocent Traitor - Alison Weir
35. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
...
I pick favorites from my ratings - a nine or ten. But my ratings are based on my enjoyment of the book. For example, 1984 is a classic and very well written. If I rated it strictly as good literature, it would get a nine. However, I rated it a six because I found it so bloody depressing.
I was ...
... I'm reading one book featuring a girl with mental problems after another though! (A bit like I did earlier on, following 1984 by George Orwell with The Handmaid's Tale - two distopian futures in a row on audio!)
... London's adventure books, Edgar Allen Poe and John Steinbeck. Lord of the Flies seems like a gimme. I'd think 1984 speaks more to that age than Animal Farm, especially as they are lucky enough to witness most of its predictions coming true. Preteens are very self-aware and seeking ...
... - her 3 Eva Luna books.
Being a George Orwell fan, it's always bothered me that people never get past Animal Farm or 1984 . Burmese Days and Down and Out in Paris and London are much better, if less sensational.
... recommend anything, because I think you'd already know what I'd recommend, because I see you everyday.
Have you read 1984 ? Maybe you should read that.
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... book) (1919)
March:
P. G. Wodehouse - Right Ho, Jeeves (audio book) (1934)
April:
George Orwell – Nineteen Eighty-Four (audio book) (1948)
May:
Aldous Huxley – Brave New World (audio book) (1932)
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar (1963)
June:
J. D. Sa ...
... work and all of Jane Austen's work.
I've read: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Lord of the Rings, Lord of the Flies, 1984 , Cry, the Beloved Country, The Little Prince, Their Eyes were Watching God, The Hobbit, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Crime and Punishment, The Scarlet Le ...
What about 1984 ? does that count?
... ed.
I use the tag "past future" for books that were written in the past about a future that is now the past. For example, 1984 was written in 1948, at which time 1984 was in the future. but in 2007 1984 is in the past and the world of the book is a "future that didn't happen". I also use "Nazi ...
I think my favorite has been Elantris by Brandon Sanderson. After that it's split between A Rose for the Crown and 1984 - two very different works, one that I loved, one that disturbed me, for very different reasons.
... (anyone want to comment on that one?), A Tale of Two Cities, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Handmaid's Tale, 1984 , and some of Mark Twain's novels. So many books to get through and so little time!
... written.
If you enjoy it, you might like other classics of the dystopian genre:
George Orwell - Animal Farm, 1984
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Yevgeney Zamyatin - We
Philip Roth - The Plot Against America
Sinclair Lewis - It Can't Happen Here
Finished listening to 1984 by George Orwell - absolutely loved it! Tomorrow I'll start listening to the audio bok of The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, so it's from one modern classic dystopian novel to another!
Oh, man. I've got a dozen Eve Dallas books sitting waiting, two or three Stephanie Plum books, Rebecca, 1984 , a couple of new (to me) Hammond Innes books...
Why am I corresponding in here?!?
I didn't like that one either. Nor was I interested in 1984 or Catcher in the Rye or really most of the courses in my English classes from HS. They almost never let us pick from the list.
In college, my reading intensive courses had much more interesting books in my opinion. I liked Small ...
... and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
9. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
10. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
11. 1984 by George Orwell
12. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
13. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
14. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
15. ...
... (Just for context, I read FAULKNER for fun.) I place it in a category that includes Brave New World, Animal Farm and 1984 , none of which I will ever touch again. There's a heavy-handedness to their social commentary that just doesn't work for me on an artistic level. You do make me feel ...
32. 1984 - George Orwell
I was totally blown away by this book. Totally. I think everyone should read it, for fear of what we may become.
What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 7 Apr 2007 (Apr 7, 2007, 5:15pm)I've now started 1984 by George Orwell. This is my first time reading it and already I can begin to appreciate why it endures more than Animal Farm.
After that (I don't think it will take me long), I think I'll read Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir, despite its lukewarm reviews.
... et al
“Bangs and Whimpers: Stories About the End of the Word” Roxbury Park Books, edited by James Freckle
“Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895 – 1984 ” by Paul Brians
... hostility to some ideas and isms is what one should expect of people who read. A huge number of people here have read 1984 , which expresses hostility to totalitarianism. Favorable reviews or discussion of the book may make totalitarians uncomfortable. They can write their own reviews, or ...
... I wasn't proclaiming Jennifer Government as dystopian classic. I found it fun and light compared to something like 1984 , in which, incidentally, the government of Oceania winds up in the same place it started while Winston winds up worse off.
I think of Jennifer Government as ...
Received (very late due to being in a different country) for my birthday:
Lord of Emperors - Guy Gavriel Kay
1984 - George Orwell
The Bone Doll's Twin - Lynn Flewelling
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey
Ex Libris: ...
ditto on a tale of two cities and 1984
other faves...
"i am an invisible man."
ralph ellison, invisible man
"that's good thinking there, CoolBreeze."
tom wolfe, the electric kool-aid acid test
and while i could hardly insert the whole thing here, since i'm not sure ...
I read 1984 a while back and it showed me several things about the depravity and brokenness of man.
Also, Watchmen poses a very real and divisive idea about life and society. A friend and I debated the two sides of the final debate for several hours. Even if you aren't into comics, you need ...
... books. It's amazing how most of these have parallels with today's administration.
Last year, I read in succession 1984 by George Orwell, We (Penguin Classics) by Yevgeny Zamyatin, and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley because I was in the mood for some dystopian ...
... with the italic bracket {.
3. Add a new "info" line (or change existing) as follows:
{backslash info{backslash title 1984 }{backslash author George Orwell}}
4. Save the file in Notepad. When you import the file into Connect it will populate the correct title and author.
... and now I have several sci-fi books I have not even started reading yet, in my TBR pile. I started Atlas Shrugged and 1984 and have not gotten back to 'em yet.=)
Then I went on to reading classics after the sci-fi phase, and have just got over my classic reading phase. I completed Wuth ...
Brave new world is supposed to be read as a counter to 1984
Ender's Game could be interesting for a group read.
Shroud for the Archbishop is a murder mystery in 7th Century Rome and solved by a female monk in a male dominated society.
Eon is a different Sci-Fi book having fun with ...
... book group at work. This is a new group that is focused on fiction. We have both men and women.
We've read:
January: 1984
February: Eragon
Any suggestions? We have to be careful because of the corporate environment to not have books that are too violent or racy.
I read 1984 because it was mentioned in The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner. I will eventually get around to reading Brave New World for the same reason. I'm sure there are others, but I can't think of them right now.
If I didn't already have such a long TBR list...I read Special Topic ...
"It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen."
-George Orwell, 1984
ok, I'll go search up a more sci-fantasy opening line as well...
... finished Wuthering Heights and now currently reading Emma.
Not sure what'll be next for me to read. I started 1984 and Atlas Shrugged a while back but never finished either book so those will be on my TBR list for the future, also on my list are:
Green Mars
Blue Mars
Foo ...
... many books have several numbers, depending on how many editions have been issued by different publishers (a novel like 1984 is a perfect example). Plus, individual users will sometimes manually enter a book so he can enter the information he thinks is most important which can effect the ISBN ...
... the Farseer series yet? Another great series by Hobb.
This weekend I bought:
Games of Command by Linnea Sinclair
1984 by George Orwell
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Emma by Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
... apparently, so have others. So, here's the new statistical breakdown:
#1 - The Hobbit (8879) edged out former #1, 1984
#100 - The Mammoth Hunters (833)
10% - Kim by Kipling (763)
50% - Fires of Winter by Johanna Lindsey (62)
90% - The Woman Who Lived in a Prologue (3)
Uns ...
... to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
1776 by David McCullough
Being Dead by Jim Crace
The Sea by John Banville
... Frie
The New Road (1914) Neil Munro
The New Testament in Scots (1983) trans. William Laughton Lorimer
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) George Orwell
No Mean City: A Story of the Glasgow Slums (1935) Alexander McArthur and H. Kingsley Long
The No. 1 Ladies' ...
... enclaves would be just so enjoyable to live in.
Not read Perfect day. A brief review makes it sound worse/similar to 1984 ?
... is the sequel.
Toast by Charles Stross
Sci-fi short stories. I want to read a particular one set in the same world as 1984
Breathmoss and Other Exhalations by Ian R. MacLeod
More sci-fi short stories. Again, I want this collection so that I can read a particular story, The Summer Isle ...
... reading. Not that I care, but I just got tired of people trying to see what it was. No one needs to know if I'm reading 1984 or the latest Lisa Kleypas.
8,145 for The Hobbit and 8,107 for 1984 - the numbers differs between the Zeitgeist and Book-pages - these numbers are from the book pages...
Looks like 1984 is in the lead again. LOL Or did you mean it edged out Catcher in the Rye?
"And it's To Kill a Mockingbird, by a nose!!!"
I'm kind of shocked by this list, to be honest.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (11,539),
Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone (11,510),
...
(You know, within the last 24 hours or so, the number of copies of The Hobbit just exceeded the number of copies of 1984 ....)
I liked 1984 and Where the Wild Things Are, but didn't like To Kill a Mockingbird or Pride and Prejudice. In fact, I don't much like Jane Austen in general - don't get me wrong, I think she's an excellent writer, her stories just don't appeal to me. And I really didn't like Catcher in the R ...
I'll go with 1984 , To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride and Prejudice and Catcher in the Rye as above. Does anyone agree with all of those??
Ok, I don't know that these "helped" me, but these are the books that changed what I read, and, sometimes, how I think.
1984 - first book I remember that really struck me
Eye of the World - got me reading books
A River Runs Through it - my favorite book, maybe
Desert Solitaire - for ...
Revisiting my numbers now that I've added new books to my library, my most popular is still 1984 , but the others have changed.
50% (#892) Hanging Up by Delia Ephron (33 users)
10% (178) Selected Poems by T. S. Eliot (437 users)
#100 The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan D ...
... was furious that library let her keep the book.
Some books I know I've read but have absolutely no recollection of like 1984 , To Kill a Mocking Bird, The Lost World, Bridge to Terebithia, Fahrenheit 451...pretty much all the classics I've forgotten.
edited to try and get the ...
... and C.S. Lewis perished. Interestingly, both had written books about mind-controlling dystopias (respectively, 1984 of course, and Lewis' That Hideous Strength). Why did no one notice the simultaneous deaths of two speculative fiction masters? Why, because of the OBVIOUSLY MORE I ...
... book online, I REALLY missed the sensuousness of holding the book, knowing where I was in it, etc.)
I just finished 1984 and while I can't say I enjoyed it much, it was well written and I'm sadly surprised to recognize how little we've changed in the 50ish years since it was published. It ...
... of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
It is in simpler language than I remember, but I still enjoyed the story.
#6 1984 by George Orwell
Exceptionally written book, yet horribly depressing. We, as humans, haven't changed much in the almost sixty years since this was written. I don't ...
I wouldn't say 1984 is a good example of classlessness in fiction. In fact it makes quite a big thing about the difference between the proles and those in the party (both inner and outer). The proles had their own pubs and their own parts of the cinema in which to sit. The difference between ...
You could make a similar argument with 1984 . The state wants to destroy all individuality, making everyone equal. In the end of course, this attitude leads to famous "some people are more equal than others" situation.
Utopias and dystopias can often resemble Communism and Fascism, appearing ...
Most Popular:
1984 by George Orwell
(7,148 users)
100th Most Popular:
Introduction to the Old Testament by R. K. Harrison
(68 users)
10% Most Popular:
Symbolic logic by Copi
(174 users)
My first question is *why* 1984 doesn't come up on search. Does it require at least one Alpha character? 2001 also gets nothing, but '2001 a' gets lots? I'd say that needs fixed.
Anyway, the reason you have different numbers is that LT can't always tell that two books are really the same. Th ...
... rthy
Ulysses by James Joyce
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Honorable Mentions: 1984 by George Orwell and Aurelia by Gerard de Nerval
Looking at the Zeitgeist, the Harry Potter books are the most popular, followed by The Da Vinci Code and then 1984 . So the #1s listed here kind of make sense.
My most popular book is also 1984 :)
My 100th book is
Cardcaptor Sakura 3;
I've only logged 119 books so far, my 10%er is
The Handmaid's Tale, and my least popular is The Wuffler & The Querk~ unshared
NB. Touchstones greyed out
No. 1 - 1984
No. 100 - Moll Flanders
10% - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
I have 45 not shared with anyone (and a few more I have to input manually). The last on my list of 'not shared' is Magic Heart by Jan Wahl, a beautiful children's book. Next 'not shared' is the Royal Academy's G ...
Added more books #1 still the same (1984)
#100 The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (870 users)
50% Burning the Days by James Salter 34 users
10% (#170) Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood (417 users)
OK, let's see if I did this right:
#1 - 1984 (7093/95)
#100 - Dolphins of Pern (422/2)
50% - The End of All Songs by Moorcock (52/1)
10% (from top) (#71) - The Robots of Dawn by Asimov (696/5)
10% (from bottom) (#630)- Make Mine Murder by Christie (4)
Last - Oops, ...
Now that I've added some new books, #1 is still 1984 and #100 is still Longitude, but the others have changed:
50% Them by Francine du Plessix Gray (35 users) (Strange, because I was just talking about this book at lunch today.)
10% (#169) Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (4 ...
#1: make it four of us, rebecca: 1984 .
Like AYK_B, my daughters own all the Harry Potter - and I was "forced" to listen to them all on tape, too. Not sure if I'll ever read them now.
#100: The House of Sand and Fog
10% is Care of the Soul by Thomas Moore
50% is Route 66 ...
It's mildly interesting (to me, anyway) that three of us who don't have a Harry Potter book have 1984 as our most popular book.
(OK, I'll play.)
Most popular: Orwell's 1984 , 7,049 copies.
(The Harry Potter books are in the house, but they belong to my kids.)
100th: Middlemarch, George Eliot, 1,546 copies
10% from top (#1,108): Now Wait for Last Year, Philip K. Dick, 176 copies
50% (#5,541): Veblen' ...
#1 1984
#100 Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
10% St. Peter's Fair by Ellis Peters
and lots of unshared. The one actually appearing at the end is The Silent Rose by Kasey Mars because it was added most recently.
And the touchstone seems to indicate that St. P ...
Most popular: 1984 by George Orwell 7040 users
100th Longitude by Dava Sobel 867 users
10% #168 Bartlett's Familiar Quotations 420 users
My 50% book, which someone suggested is The Gate by François Bizot -- haven't read it yet -- 37 users.
I have 237 books ...
... book to two of my dearest friends and had them do the same. It is now a treasured keepsake for me of provoking thoughts.
1984 also affected me in a similar way, though I argued with him in my journal, and it wasn't inspiring, more unsettling.
Anyone else ever react like that to a book?
... quite complacent that nothing can go too badly wrong with our government or society. I think that dystopic books such as 1984 and Brave New World are both very clever in taking the elements of existing British society and moulding a pretty unpleasant looking place from the same elements.
3) ...
... used to describe me in a verity of ways; and I suppose that my library is fairly obscure at 9/225. Of course, I own both Nineteen Eighty-Four and Moby Dick. ;-)
... figures are fascinating, no? The median figure is a better measure of your eclectic taste. All one needs is to have Nineteen Eighty-Four or Moby Dick in the collection, and the average number of shared readers shoots up.
There's a great pride in having eclectic tastes, but in my ...
... figures are fascinating, no? The median figure is a better measure of your eclectic taste. All one needs is to have Nineteen Eighty-Four or Moby Dick in the collection, and the average number of shared readers shoots up.
There's a great pride in having eclectic tastes, but in my ...
... be at the top, followed by Great Expectations, Pride and Prejudice, The Odyssey, The Tempest, Medea, The Stand, Nineteen Eighty Four , anything by James Ellroy, Raymond Chandler, Wodehouse and Philip Pullman.
There's plenty of poetry I read almost every day: Sappho, ...
I had four books listed then I re-read (snickers..) the question. My answer: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Original response:
Blindness by Jose Saramago, Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley ...
... of my copies (entered until present) is 1967--and my ancient copies are not in yet.
Still to be entered : i.a. Nineteen Eighty-Four , The Hobbit, Brave new world and Animal Farm, and some dozens of books by Goethe (in German), as well as, hmm, thousands of, hmm, more obsc ...
... and editing to be a good book.
Also, interesting that you think of Brave New World and 1984 (strangely touchstoned as Nineteen eighty-four ) as science fiction; I've always thought of them as political. But, that's what's great about LT!
Three separate reviews of Nineteen Eighty-four were posted today, two by people who just joined.
And most people don't seem to have ANY reviews.
... for the intensity with which they can evoke looming, threatening horror. How much of the atmosphere of pervading fear in Nineteen eighty-four , which Blair wrote after changing his name to George Orwell, can be traced to James?
... for the intensity with which they can evoke looming, threatening horror. How much of the atmosphere of pervading fear in Nineteen eighty-four , which Blair wrote after changing his name to George Orwell, can be traced to James?
#84 - I have. I really enjoyed it (but note: I also like The Handmaid's Tale, Riddley Walker, Nineteen-Eighty-Four , A Clockwork Orange, that kind of thing. If you don't, you won't, I suspect.)
... THREE other users who share it (and coversely, the average user shares three books...like me...The hunt for Red October Nineteen eighty four and Rendezvous with Rama and the average book in his/her library is shared by only 55 other users. Obviously, he or she has ALOT of unique books.
...
... now I'm trying to go through my tbr pile, first reading the books I share with most other LT members. Hence, after putting Nineteen eighty-four on hold, I am now reading Jane Eyre and will then move on to Wuthering Heights.
Orwell definitely wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four to make a point. Look at the rest of fiction, and his non-fiction, Orwell was very politically engaged writer. If we can accept that an everyday writer like Pratchett is writing to make a point then if it seems self-evident that a great writer ...
... you can range your books by number of co-owners. This reveals the following :
Your most shared book at present, is 1984 (Nineteen eighty-four ) by George Orwell (5,498 owners). Your 100 most shared books range from 5,498 to 547 owners--the latter is Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Mar ...
I'm happy to report that I have finished Nineteen Eighty Four . What a book it was, probably the book that has kept me most in tune for so many hours in a row. Opened my eyes to alot of things. One thing I found amazing, that his book is actually more relevant now then it was when he wrote it. ...
Currently I am reading Nineteen Eighty Four by Orwell. It is fascinating, a book that I believe will change the way I view America and politics.
Also for my 1001 reading Challenge (read all the books) I am working on A tale of a tub by Swift, almost done that however.
... - this is on another list too. Interesting, the books that are on more than one list - would they be "great-squared"?
Nineteen Eighty-Four - required in High School
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road Jack Kerouak
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
Cry the Beloved ...
... a Tub by Swift for my personal pleasure as I try to complete all of 1001 books you must read..., but am now also reading Nineteen Eighty-Four by Orwell for school. What do you uys think about wither of these two books.
... of users who have books in your collection
Remark the single rather isolated value of 4,946 (probably a copy of Nineteen eighty-four ) is having a huge effect and deforming effect vis-à-vis the mean, though its influencing the median is marginal.
The combination of median AND mean ...
Books we read at school were a fair bit of Shakespeare, George Orwell's 1984 , Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Golding's Lord Of The Flies plus some more including a book of short stories which I cannot recall.
If you want to get some more US focused stuff ...
... by i.a. Jean-Francois Revel (Jean-François Revel).
In 1984 I heard many people feel greatly relieved "because Nineteen eighty-four hadn't come true"--or so they thought.
Personally, I do not think George Orwell was describing any visionary future, but on the contrary ...
... in itself, but if you compare one book to other books, maybe you can compare the relative "readability" of various works. 1984 , has a Readability Ratio of closer to 3:1 (125/45), which gives it a Ulysses Factor of 9. And Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban has a Readability Ratio of ...
... posted on libertarian threads.” Too bad. It may happen again. I guess you had better learn to deal with it.
10. “1984 was not a libertarian novel . . .” I never said it was. In fact I sort of implied it wasn’t.
Objectivism has a number of things going for it. (That all the ...
... I'm not sure I'd say 'scariest ever', but it's certainly disturbing enough to make one want to read on.
The opening of 1984 actually is scary, in a 'hang on, what was that again?' kind of way. The world is out of kilter.
... novel is Arrival and Departure - which I think is out of print. In any case, I've no doubt that the famous 2+2 scene in 1984 was an homage to Darkness at Noon .
I read Nineteen Eighty-four before Brave New World and always think of the latter as being better written but I don't have the skills to analyse literature that others in this thread have so I value their opinions. I am very keen to hear what you think of the book which inspired both, Yevgeny ...
... impulse
4. political impulse
He was of the opinion that his best work, weak as it was, was a combination of 2 and 4. 1984 is probably his best combination, politics is language, and vice versa. That is what makes it so powerful. Three years before 1984 Orwell published an essay, "Politic ...
... comes from the modernist belief that the modern world was being overrun by the masses, and nothing good could come from it. 1984 from Orwell's distaste for communism.
On the other hand, Stand On Zanzibar takes it's starting point from the idea of overpopulation.
I think the reason they ...
... played a huge part in the final years (and outlook) of Wells.
It's been an embarrassing amount of time since I've read 1984 or Brave New World... I must go back to them some day... Yes, lots of great recs here I must follow up on!
... Space Odyssey which was basically written from the movie, I'd say, quite possibly the best movie made from a book would be 1984 . I think it expresses the nature of totalitarianism much more effectively than the book, and the ending is much more convincing on film (I understand Orwell was ...
... marginalized.
Tell us more about The Croquet Player, if you're so inclined. It seems to me that Brave New World and 1984 both look at how the dystopian world stresses the individual, especially the individual who "feels different," i.e., Bernard and Winston.
Noticed another "must-have" ...
... cataloguing).
But what are the "must-haves" for the distopian novel collector?
Brave New World, Animal Farm and 1984 are the no-brainers. Ditto Fahrenheit 451 and Lord of the Flies.
I've also got Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro, and need to add A Canticle for Liebowit ...
... lot of science fiction writers from Harry Harrison to Robert Silverberg.
Like Cynthia357 I too was subjected to 1984 in English. I still think it is over-rated. I prefer Zamyatin's We or Huxley's Brave New World by far.
... Orwell is one of my all-time favorite writers, but it irks me that he is known primarily for his two worst books: Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. These were first inflicted on most of us in school by bandwagon-jumping teachers. I had to read Animal Farm in the 8th ...
... be cool to be able to look at copies of a work sorted by dates, as some sort of graph--all 4000 or however many copies of Nineteen Eighty-Four , and how many of each copy were printed in which year from 1949 up until the present.
Shoulda tried the British spelling, but the book's cover has the American variant, so...
I don't think I've ever read 1984 . I saw the film in high school, and of course references abound, particularly in the blogosphere. The store also had a copy of Down and Out in Paris and London, but I ...
... I've been meaning to for a while (like Pratchett).
Good choices you have there, though--I'm right in the middle of 1984 on audiobook, and soon I should get through the Colour of Magic, too. (The touchstone demands a British spelling.. it must go by the work name, since there are ...
... I just bought Pratchett's The Color of Magic (why no touchstone for that, I wonder?), a 1977 or thereabouts edition of 1984 , and Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief.
1984 and Animal Farm are both great classics! I love them!
grunin: That's a pretty good idea. I just sorted my books that way and it looks like 1984 has to be my next read, followed by Animal Farm and The time traveler's wife. I have read 1984 about half-way through years ago, but I guess I'll have to start over.
After I've finished my current ...
... to trick myself into getting to bed earlier. She sleeps, I "read," it's a pretty good compromise. :)
Right now I'm on 1984 . I don't care much for the reader, but he's tolerable. He has too many sharp intakes of breath. Since I started doing this, I've also listened to Salem's Lot and Ang ...
... Steven Pinker, and Richard Powers get my mental cogs going for weeks or sometimes months afterward.
Now if 1984 or Brave New World made you think, I highly recommend We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, the ultimate inspiration for both of them.
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