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Your left brain is blank? rebelaessedai Send a noteboard - 07/09/2009 03:25:44 AM
Very nice list of books you've got there.

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

Another big Orwell fan, I see.


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

I think I've vaguely heard of this- was unaware it was considered dystopian. Shall have to look it up.


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.

*nods* I totally understand that. I recently found out my mother hasn't read it- though she understands the references to Big Brother and such. I'd like her to read it, but I think it might be too much for her. She likes depth, but Orwell might be a bit too depressing. ;)


I liked it - it clearly influenced Brave New World (Huxley denied it though, the liar:P) 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.

Yeah. I think I actually preferred We to 1984. The writing, maybe the translation brings it out or something, was amazing. A lot of apt metaphors.
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Interesting. rebelaessedai - 06/09/2009 04:44:27 AM 841 Views
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Hmm. rebelaessedai - 06/09/2009 04:46:49 AM 863 Views
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So, what did you think of We? rebelaessedai - 06/09/2009 04:47:35 AM 890 Views
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I like dystopian and post-apocalyptic stories Vodalus - 06/09/2009 07:50:08 PM 1035 Views
I prefer dystopian, myself. rebelaessedai - 07/09/2009 03:21:51 AM 940 Views
The problem with post-apocalyptic stories is that there are so many which are utter crap. Vodalus - 07/09/2009 05:28:02 PM 834 Views
Yes, yes. rebelaessedai - 07/09/2009 08:34:11 PM 807 Views
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Your left brain is blank? rebelaessedai - 07/09/2009 03:25:44 AM 851 Views
an edit of an edit that young Nebhead made to my sig. snoopcester - 07/09/2009 01:28:20 PM 957 Views
Why just your left? *NM* rebelaessedai - 07/09/2009 08:35:10 PM 436 Views
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