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Try this touchstone: We (Modern Classics).

... Definitely worth it. Great horror story with some real-life themes of abuse. Very impressed and hope he writes more. 39. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin Still not published in his native Russia? Good dystopian story with a slightly disturbing ending. I thought it was pretty 1984-ish in a lot of ways, ...

391. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin 12/04/09 392. The Palace of Dreams by Ismail Kadare 12/05/09 393. The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren 12/06/09 394. Herzog by Saul Bellow 12/07/09 395. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch 12/0 ...

... read The Children of Men by P. D. James? It was my favorite Dystopian read this year. For my challenge I'm reading We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Have you ever read it? I'll be checking in to see how you're doing.

... possibilities play out. Plus, I love science fiction :) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Possibilities: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

How could you forget We by Zamyatin.

... singing by May Sarton, Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright, one of the few "Utopias" that is not static or boring; We dystopia, science fiction by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Russian)

... classical writings, translated materials, general fiction, and yet another little area for "old fiction books". I found We in this last area, after looking for an hour!

That's good to hear! I put We on my TBR earlier this year so it's definitely in the 1010.

Have you tried the dystopian tale: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin? I haven't it but its on my tbr (along with The Road by Cormac McCarthy).

... Erasmus 35.Utopia 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 ...

... No C. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ T _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A _ _ ? socialpages - sorry, but I just bought We yesterday ($1 at a charity sale) and I haven't had a chance to read it yet.

... same, my library needs some work. I get caught up in all the LT discussions and forget about cataloguing. Sqdancer - We is on my wishlist. Can you recommend it? My library doesn't have it and I'm wondering whether I should purchase it.

I think I've always post books from mine (exception: I don't think I have entered We yet) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ?

Yeah, one of those I had read in more than one language. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

... My Destination for reuse of an existing story (Monte Cristo). I'd also include at least one eastern-European work, maybe We, and one or two more contemporary works (maybe Old Man's War? Fool's War? a Stross?). Students would get to choose one book/story we hadn't read (with my ...

Dystopias tend to be dull and I think my opinion of We suffers because I read 1984 and Brave New World first.

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin The Watch by Dennis Danvers Borders of Infinity by Lois McMaster Bujold The Colors of Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley The Giver by Lois Lowry Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer

Flossie - I certainly won't be rushing to read anything 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 ...

I'm planning on reading We for next year's challenge. There are so many editions available. What translation did you use?

... for so long. Unusual characters and plot, and imaginative narration, but ultimately good old fashioned storytelling. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin An interesting read more for the fact that it set a template for future dystopian novels, but I found the later part of the book hard to take in and ...

So it's the end of the first year! Been a bit slack updating, so here are the last batch: 56. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin 57. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett 58. Che: a Graphic Autobiography by Spain Rodriguez 59. Me Cheeta: the Autobiography (by James Lever) 60. 2001: a Spac ...

Hi there! Nice thread. Did you like We? I read it last year as part of an anthology called Russian Literature of the Soviet Period. I thought it was fascinating, from an historical context certainly as well as from a stylistic perspective. I'm also a fan of Greene, Salinger and Roach.

... HEIGHT="188" WIDTH="250"> 1. The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories by Philip K Dick 2. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin 3. End in Fire by Syne Mitchell 4. Replay by Ken Grimwood 5. Cosmic Encounter by A.E. van Vogt 6. Deadstock by Jeffrey T ...

707. We finished, well skimmed the end as I wasn't enjoying it

I'm reading We by Engene Zamiatin, I'm only 30 odd pages in but really enjoying it so far. I finished Fear and Trembling a few days ago, I really didn't get how that book should be in the 1001 list.

... A little girl of ten has superhuman strength, tons of money, lives alone, does not go to school. My #1 hero of all time. We by Evgeny Zamyatin. A beautiful novel about a future society where everyone is called by a number, lives in glass apartments, and makes love with assigned partners. Some ...

66. We, Yevgeny Zamyatin

... with mortgages at all. If you're interested in entropy in a literary way, check out The Crying of Lot 49 by Pynchon, and We (Modern Library Classics) by Zamyatin. To understand what these guys are writing about, don't read any exposition on entropy earlier than about 2005. Here's a good ...

Thanks for the recommendation of We, although I am going to have to be in the right frame of mind before I try it, I can find them too depressing.. Agree about Tigana I can definitely recommend you try his others. Lions of Al-Rassan is my personal favourite.

... Warning: you won't want to put it down, so don't start reading it if you haven't got a lot of time on your hands. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin - Excellent. If you like 1984 or Brave New World, you need to read this book. It was completed in 1921 following the revolution in Russia. O ...

... Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil In Search of Lost Time, Proust The Dragon and other stories, Yevgeny Zamyatin We, Zamyatin The Illustrated History of the Countryside, Oliver Rackham The Natural History of Selbourne, Gilbert White The Life of Samuel Johnson, Boswell

... Le Guin Siberia Siberia by Valentin Rasputin Resurrection by Leo Tolsoy Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay We by Yevgeny Zamyatin Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andrei Makine The Compromise by Sergei Dovlatov The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekov Red Prie ...

... Le Guin Siberia Siberia by Valentin Rasputin Resurrection by Leo Tolsoy Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay We by Yevgeny Zamyatin Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andrei Makine The Compromise by Sergei Dovlatov The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekov Red Prie ...

We is a must-read imo. Perhaps Foucault's discussion of the panopticon in Surveiller et Punir provides a useful discussion of Zamyatin's "clear glass dwellings." After all, the point of this entire dystopia is to maintain surveillance over the population. Privacy does not exist. Without ...

... of Solitude 873 The Golden Ass 882 Oedipus Rex 883 The Iliad 884 Sappho: A New Translation 891 We 892 Gilgamesh (added 5/26) Missing 100s: none!

We

... at first, until I really thought about its implications. Then it got alarming! If you haven't, I recommend reading We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (yup he's Russian), it is the father of 1984 and BNW. (Orwell was greatly influenced by Zamyatin's vision.)

... Natalya, historicity | . . . . . . Russian Thinkers v-Notes from Underground | . . . The Icon and the Axe v-We (Modern . . .), Notes from Underground realized | . . . Soviet Heretic | . . . Prisoners of Power | . . . The Crying of Lot 49, to see a world in a postal ...

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.

891 We by Yevgeny Zamyatin We, written in the 1920's, is a Russian dystopian novel. The narrator starts the book as a proud worker drone in the strictly regimented and totalitarian One State, but his world view is turned upside down when he becomes infatuated with a mysterious woman. The ...

Oh yes, Europe Central is fantastic. I read that last year. We is on my TBR list.

... the month and I already own the following volumes which I did not own in February: Journey into Space by Toby Litt We by Yevgeny Zamyatin Crap at the Environment by Mark Watson America Unchained by Dave Gorman Don't Look Now and other stories by Daphne du Maurier ...

I hope you do give Children of Men a try! I can't wait to see your review of We - I have that one on my wishlist. I thought I had nabbed a copy on BookMooch but the owner hasn't been on BM for over a week so I think it's a no-go.

... are doing very well on reading in spite of college. Keep up the good work, as well as the recommendations - I am putting We on Continent TBR.

Just finished over dinner: We by Zamyatin Read for philosophy class, but I had fun with it. It's really amazing reading science fiction that's so old and seeing the similarities, both with our world today, and later science fiction. I'm way behind :-( Dang college getting in the way ...

So far I've read: O Pioneers and The Troll Garden by Willa Cather Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov We by Yevgeny Zamyatin Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge Am currently reading: The Leopard by di Lampedusa Waking ...

... those of the lower life forms (supposedly) that we eat and use for garden fertilizer. A very good dystopian book is We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. I think it actually predates the others, but was smothered by Stalin and his people in the SU.

... movie." That's either evasive or you missed my point entirely. Good writing has nothing to do with technology. Reading Zamyatin's We, written 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 ...

... by Isaac Asimov {11/20} 16. Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov {11/28} 17. The Crow Road by Iain Banks {11/29} 18. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin {12/4}

... bad as Atlas Shrugged! ;-> Actually, though, Anthem really wasn't at all bad (even if it was a bit of a rip-off of Zamyatin's We). And my recollection (though my memory is 40+ years old) is that We the Living was fairly decent too.

For today and possibly tomorrow, We by Zamyatin. Once again, terms throw me. I fail to see the dystopia of the novel, although in our lives, today, we would certainly have turned the one state into a dystopia, I don't get the impression that, with the exception of a few malcontents, the vast ...

Finished Old Goriot. The French are some strange folks. Now on to We.

Finished Farthing and am on to Old Goriot for the literature group read. When I finish this I have my sights set on We by Zamyatin.

selin, I read We this year, too. How did you like it?

The original dystopian novel, before Huxley or Orwell: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Highly recommended.

15. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand 16. We - Yevgeny Zamyatin

Yes, and it is quite odd. Ridiculously odd, actually. How about the granddaddy of all dystopian novels: We -- M1001

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.

I found a new use for LT. I thought I had a copy of We but wasn't sure, so I checked my library on LT and sure enough, it confirmed that indeed I do possess a copy. Now where the hell did I put it?

I think We by Zamyatin would lend itself incredibly well to discussions in history, political or social studies classes. It could be used to discuss how students view their relationships with their government and their fellow citizens. I don't see this book mentioned very often on these ...

Hey there! I also read We this year. What did you think of it? I was very impressed and quite moved by the ending. I could really see where Huxley and Orwell were both influenced by this book. I read Divided Kingdom last year and liked it quite a lot. I actually thought the ending worked ...

Okay, last bump: XYZ-Authors. There aren't too many and I have only read one... Yevgeny Zamyatin who wrote We, the original 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

Finished We yesterday. Shouldn't have taken me so long to read but real life got in the way last week. Strange book, and a bit disjointed; obviously didn't grab me that much or even with the RL happenings I would have been done before now. I can see why it's included on the 1001 list - as it ...

... right one, and voila! But if you go back in to edit, you'll get reset to the default book (in this case, an Ayn Rand). We for me should link to the Yevgeny Zntayin book.

Cairo Jim was a quick one, as expected. Silly but fun. Next up is We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, which is a 1001 bookring. Looks interesting. The touchstone thingy for this book doesn't want to work properly though. Re Dexter on TV: unfortunately we haven't been able to watch this series on T ...

... criteria for whether to include a long piece within an anthology in my 50-book list. As reported, I recently finished We by Yevgeny Zamiatin and decided to include it as a completed book for my 50-book list despite the fact that I read this novel within the collection An Anthology of Russi ...

I thought We was really amazing literature. The writing style could be challenging but having never read it in Russian I think it's hard for me to judge. It is definitely not a casual read but it's incredibly moving.

Book 28: We by Yevgeny Zamiatin Written in the late 1920s, this is a Russian sci fi novel. It's a tale about a totalitarian state in total control of every individual, and it's easy to believe that this novel was highly influential to both Orwell and Huxley in the writing of their famous ...

I'm about two thirds of the way through We by Yevgeny Zamiatin. 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 ...

... stories by a few authors I'd never heard of. The anthology also contains Yevgeny Zamiatin's sci fi/distopia novel We, which I'm finding quite interesting. I was wondering whether anyone here had any thoughts on this novel and/or had any suggestions for additional works by Zamiatin. ...

WE by Zamyatin? I just didn't want the Brits and Yanks to dominate. I forgot Ryman is kinda/sorta an honorary Canadian...

... I read. OK, so now in the Russian anthology I am about to read Yevgeny Zamiatin's distopic science fiction classic, We. Now, this work is also, of course, available on its own in book form. So my question is, when you read a book-length novel/novella within an anthology, do you include ...

Today I'm going to start the Russian science fiction/totalitarian horror story We by Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin, as found in the collection An Anthology of Russian Literature in the Soviet Period from Gorki to Pasternak.

... ters. Never heard of Kallocain (there doesn't seem to be a UK edition at all) but there has just been a recent reissue of We by Vintage.

... one could come up with other classic slip stream that while not out of print could use some hype in SF circles, such as We, Kallocain, and so forth. However, while I would like to see great books like these pushed to regular SF readers, I suspect it might actually hurt the SF Masterworks ...

... home at that point. There were some extremely interesting items, though. The discussion of different translations of We was one of the best panels I've been to this year, and Ellen Kushner is always interesting to listen to. I just think it should go back to a schedule of Friday ...

#13 So lucky to be able to read We in the original language. Have you read it in english as well? Are there any differences between the two?

We by Zamyatin is amazing especially in the original Russian. I've written a paper on it. Personally I think it's better than 1984 and Huxley claims not to have been influenced by it but he has to be flat out lying. There are way too many scathing similarities. Plus its better because it was ...

Why does We not appear on the Zamyatin's author page? I saw this book in a list of user recommendations. Unfortunately, it appeared there with an empty title, which is obviously unclickable. I knew what the book was supposed to be; that's how I figured out there there must be a bug here.

... of Europe? I'll kick off with my favourites (excluding short stories, else it would all be Kafka and Zamyatin!): 1. We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin - surprised how many people on LT have read this book! 2. Amerika, by Kafka 3. The trial, by Kafka 4. Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino ...

... Maruya Oroonoko - Behn Slow Boats to China - Gavin Young Hyperion - Keats Middlemarch - Eliot We - Zamyatin The Tempest - Shakespeare The Castle - Kafka The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake The Turn of the Screw - Henry James Brideshead Revisited - Wa ...

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.

May (21) We - Yevgeny Zamyatin (F) This book was frustrating and fascinating. Honestly, I felt like I "got it" best when I was reading half-asleep. Full Review Wow, I am neglecting reading in general and ...

... a kick in the ass for me. Full Review (36) We - Yevgeny Zamyatin (F) This book was frustrating and fascinating. Honestly, I felt like I "got it" best when I was reading half-asleep. Medellia in 50 Book Challenge : AlbinoRhino's Book List 2008 (May 14, 2008, 6:12pm)

Good luck meeting your goal! If you're not taking classes this summer, that seems doable. Did you like We? I recently bought a copy after spotting it on a number of LT threads. I'll read it soon, probably, but I haven't been in the mood for dystopian literature lately. (Term papers are ...

Huxley was preceeded by Evgeny Zamyatin's We (Zamyatin in turn was a fan of H. G. Wells's, although "We" owes nothing directly to Wells). I too think Orwell a much better writer than Huxley. The Orwell piece that "made me think", as this thread says, was the essay "Inside the Whale" ...

... what LT would 'suggest' for telegraph100 -- using the 'Special Sauce' Recommendations for fiction, telegraph100 got: #1 We by Yevgeny Zamyatin #2 Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson #3 Count Zero by William Gibson #4 A Guide to Middle Earth by Robert Foster #5 Agnes Grey by An ...

arrrr!! you have She too arr... Them by Nathan McCall She by H Rider Haggard Us by Richard Mason We by Yevgeny Zamyatin and Natasha Randall I. by Stephen Dixon and Daniel Clowes

I don't know if we'll manage a group read - it looks like only a couple of people are interested, but I'm reading We by Yevgeny Zamyatin right now.

OK, I couldn't resist one more. Saturday night and Sunday morning We Keep the aspidistra flying--The trick is to keep breathing By the open sea.

I just love We - it's one of the few books in my collection that I just will not lend out on the off-chance it won't come back home. I'm so glad I was fortunate enough to discover it in HS so I've had the opportunity to indulge in many re-readings

... encourage a non-SF reader to dip a toe in the water, how about books with a bit of 'bottle-age' like The Time Machine or We? P D James' The Children of Men springs to mind, as well, but I'm never sure whether to call these "end-of-civilisation-as-we-know-it" books SF

... Dystopian, least thats what i taged it as. yeah i just checked the blurb and it uses Dystopian there. it's as strange as we and as frantic as Clockwork orange. i thought it was great and yet there are only two of us on LT who own it.

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Wow... Before I ran into this book at a Goodwill store, I thought that I was "well read". What else have I never read?

... going to take myself off for a coffee in a bit and read some more), and it's taken me a while to get used to the tone in We (so different from W&P) but it's getting more interesting all the time.

@Killeymoon Oh, I loved We. But then again, I'll go for almost any dystopia ^^ How are you enjoying it so far (or at all, you'll probably be through it in no time!)

Over halfway in War and Peace now - woo hoo! My portable read (sticking to the Russians) is We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.

... 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 I read it over five years ago and only have some vague recollections and an old paper to ...

... Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (finished 2/11/08) 2) Paris in the Twentieth Century by Jules Verne (finished 2/18/08) 3) We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (finished 3/11/08) 4) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (finished 5/13/08) 5) Metamorphoses by Ovid (finished 6/12/08) 6) Justine by the Marqu ...

2, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin What an incredible book, absolutely amazing.

#22, We is one of my top-ten all-time favourite books. #31, it has been yonks (over 40 years!) since I read that book. Must give it a read again soon.

... interested in any of the books that could be described as unrealistic? Would include things like A Clockwork Orange We There was an earlier post on horror. Also, what about magic realism? (or would that open a whole nother can of worms?)

... ago by a very good friend. Finally found a copy and 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.

Two were at the top: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin and Book 1 of Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset, with honorable mentions going to The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad and Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho.

My top 4, all rated 4.5: We****1/2 by Yevgeny Zamyatin The Secret Life of Bees****1/2 by Sue Monk Kidd Gathering Blue****1/2 by Lois Lowry A Death in the Family****1/2 by James Agee

... was the first of his i read and i was bowled over by it. check out heart of a dog thats also great. i also liked we by Zamyatin and Lolita was a great read. hoping to read Dead souls soon and i got a nice collection of short stories by Solzhenitsyn. lastly a question, is ...

Today I picked up: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin A house for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald The Loudest Sound and Nothing by Clare Wigfall

... The Metamorphosis 843 - French Fiction: The Hunchback of Notre Dame 891 - East Indo-European and Celtic Literature: We 901 - Philosophy and theory: The End of History and the Last Man 902 - Miscellany: Cartoon History of the World 909 - World history: The Rise and Fall of the Gr ...

... Students and Literacy 18. Pedagogy of the Oppressed 19. Nightjohn 20. How to Talk so Kids Can Learn 21. We 22. They Say/I Say 23. The Skin That We Speak

... figure, the Russian dissident Yevgeny Zamyatin. For those 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 ...

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

... though I don't know whether I'll actually have time for it now that school's started up again. I've been meaning to read We forever, and I also like the idea of discussing Children of Men together with the movie. There was a group discussion of The ...

We've had single word titles - how about monosyllables? We by Y. Zamatin Who? by Algis Budrys Scoop by Evelyn Waugh Boy by Roald Dahl Youth by Joseph Conrad

... recommendations from the bookseller I also ordered Watermark by Joseph Brodsky, The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, and Fatelessness by Imre Kertesz. Of these: The Master and Margarita - very highly recommended, it is now one of my top ten all time ...

christiguc, Integral leaps out at me as the name of the ship in Zamyatin's We. Along with diary, glass, efficiency, numbers . . . I think that's it!

Next up for me is American Gods by Neil Gaiman and We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.

I'll second Canticle for Liebowitz, We (I'd read an older translation in a college course on Utopian/Dystopian 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 ...

... Mary Wesley Nightwood by Djuna Barnes East is East by T.C. Boyle And from Barnes & Noble, I picked up We by Yevgeny Zamyatin and Come to Me by Amy Bloom

We locked eyes across the room, although with the waves of the beautiful and damned moving from bar to the balcony and back, it seemed more like a sea that stood between us. Unsure, I raised an eyebrow and made a move to catch his elbow as he approached, seemingly deep in conversation with M ...

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin Tristessa by Jack Kerouac Howl by Allen Ginsberg Gaudete by Ted Hughes Compulsion by Meyer Levin

... You Can't Take It With You by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith We by Yevgeny Zamyatin They Shoot Horses, Don't They by Horace McCoy (In Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s)

We by Eugene Zamiatin There is a dramatic running duel between the rational and irrational forces within him, a shifting between his conscious and unconscious powers of perception, and a constant association of ideas that forms elaborate networks.— (Peter Rudy, Introduction, p. ...

I loved O&C, but have not yet read BNW. It's been on my mental list to check out for ages now along with We, but somehow they slipped by me. I love a good post-apolalypse / dystopian novel and so it will only be a matter of time before I get to it. How do you feel about The Chrysalids? ...

... Russian) that I haven't read yet. I loved Aleksandar Tolstoy's Aelita, but he's not really a genre writer. Zamyatin's We was mentioned a number of times... Not very helpful, I'm afraid. :)

-18- Regarding We, there are several new translations just published in the last few years so that can cause some confusion. This is something i also fret about, concerned if i am reading the 'best' translation and i go through this everytime i read an author in translation.. I like the Penguin ...

... (see the reverse happening here). This leads to adding labels to our stories, and eventually text. By the end of the year my Kindergarteners can write and illustrate a 3-6 sentence story. Some can even do more. Of course all kindergartens are different, so this might not be happening ...

I read the Penguin Classics edition of We last year and found it worked nicely. I haven't 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? ...

... 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 are the 'grand-daddies' of modern dystopias (essential ...

... 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

... but she was another well-known poet in the Soviet era. And one of my favourites, Evgeny Zamyatin, author of We, a science-fiction dystopia written before Huxley or Orwell. Like Ivan Bunin, the first Russian Nobel Laureate, and Kuprin he was exiled from the Soviet U ...

... With Scissors, The Glass Castle and so many others...but it's time for me to move on. So on that note, I ordered Why We Eat What We Eat: How Columbus Changed the Way the World Eats (thanks for the reccomendation lilithcat!) as well as Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 ...

... 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 literature. Now, I've just ...

... with those, I think it'll either be The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer), Wise Blood (Flannery O'Connor), or We (Yevgeny Zamyatin).

We is my "side" book, so I won't be done for awhile, but I'll definitely watch for the pink slips, BookAddict. I don't know about the TV analogy, entirely. Mathematics is not evil, but it's the language used by a totalitarian regime. In the same way, the structures, the technology of their ...

... Starfish, Peter Watts 35. To Say Nothing of The Dog, Connie Willis 36. Dooms Day Book, Connie Willis 37. We, Yevgeny Zamyatin 38. Seafort Saga, David Feintuch 39. Wreck of the River of Stars by Michael Flynn 40. Downbelow Station, by CJ Cherryh 41. Bold ...

Another true classic among dystopian novels is We by Yevgeny Zamyatin ... as I recall this actually came out before 1984 and Brave New World ... it's fantastic.

... how I missed Canticle being in the first post in the thread!) And, of course, Player Piano. Kudos to Aquila for We by Zamyatin. A great book. To add fuel to the fire of Animal Farm and the Soviet "revolution", I've seldom met a fan of dystopian fiction who wasn't impressed by Dar ...

... so I value their opinions. I am very keen to hear what you think of the book which inspired both, Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, which really blew me away especially considering how much earlier it was written than the two more famous English novels.

... rg. 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.

Recommendations: We Les Miserables Last Day of a Condemned Montaigne's essays Words that Hurt, Words that Heal Night & Dawn

I will have to check out We because I love 1984!

... 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.