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Re: Dystopian literature snoopcester Send a noteboard - 06/09/2009 08:48:48 PM
1. What dystopian literature have you read?


Read these ones

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Got these two sat around at home waiting to be read

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

2. Which was your favorite, and why?


1984 by George Orwell, recently reread it and enjoyed it just as much as when I first read it years ago.

3. Which was your least favorite, and why?


Not sure - I've enjoyed all of them but if I have to pick one, Oryx and Crake just didn't work quite as well for me as the others

4. Which did you find most disturbing, and why?


1984, because so much of the doublethink can be seen in society today... and yet people regularly quote 1984 in reference to Big Brother and ignore the more obvious example of something from the book coming to pass.

5. Do you find it hard to read some dystopian literature because it is so disturbing?


No, I'm fine with it.

Don't get too spoilerific in these.

Currently I'm reading Zamyatin's We. Anyone else ever read it? Thoughts?


I liked it - it clearly influenced Brave New World (Huxley denied it though, the liar) and 1984 (Orwell was happy to claim it as his inspiration) and perhaps not quite as good as either but then they were built on what had gone before.
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