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Brave New World/ Aldous Huxley
est:
They are both pretty good books, and only similar in as much as they show a dystopian future where an overbearing government controls everything about your life. To me comparing the two is like comparing Star Trek and Star Wars. They deal with the same underlying setting, but in noticeably different ways.
Johnny C:
I was always more of a Spaceballs fan.
I honestly haven't finished either book; Huxley's prose bored my mind out, and Orwell seemed to lose focus midway through 1984 and I'm laughing because my cat just violently attacked a yam and so I have to end this post.
Juanathon:
I love disstopian books like these although my fav would have to be WE. this book rocks, i suggest it to anyone who likes either 1984 or brave New world. itsa kinda a hard book to find but its definatly a good read.
I can't remeber the wauthors name right now but he is russian, the tittle is We, and was origanly printed befoure wither 1984 and brave new world
lh1031:
You guys should read the Handmainden's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
LeeZion:
--- Quote from: Kai ---The entire second section gets so boring. It's like, "stop boning and do something already". And the entire part where he's reading a book inside of a book? It needs to die.
--- End quote ---
It was kind of funny, the first time I read 1984, I was a horny teen and couldn't wait to get to the sex scenes. I skipped the essays in the middle of the book just so I could read more sex.
Now, however, I think those essays in the middle were absolutely brilliant. In them, he describes how a manufactured enemy is the perfect device for wasting labor to spend money on a war effort that could have gone to building schools and other public projects to help people. The only other person I know who made this connection so brilliantly was Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his famous speech, "The Chance for Peace." In it, the famed U.S. president and former five-star general described at great length what the money spent on a battleship could have gone to, instead.
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