Re: Dystopian literature - Edit 1
Before modification by Сталин at 06/09/2009 01:06:58 AM
1. What dystopian literature have you read?
Off the top of my head -
Мы Евгения Замятина(We by Evgeny Zamyatin)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
2. Which was your favorite, and why?
I think A Clockwork Orange
3. Which was your least favorite, and why?
I would say Fahrenheit 451 - it didn't seem very plausible as a dystopia.
4. Which did you find most disturbing, and why?
Brave New World, because parts of it are already in existence and I see a permissive, drug-filled society as far easier to manipulate into a tool for societal control than a totalitarian dictatorship.
5. Do you find it hard to read some dystopian literature because it is so disturbing?
No. Sometimes it makes me slightly nauseous, though.
Don't get too spoilerific in these. 
Currently I'm reading Zamyatin's We. Anyone else ever read it? Thoughts?
See above. Zamyatin heavily influenced Huxley, who was Orwell's French teacher at Eton. Zamyatin's world has, I think, too little privacy in it to be believable. Huxley did a much better job of painting a dystopia that could become reality.