I love the book 1984 and I'm getting ready to read Brave New World. What else is worth reading? What is your favorite dystopian novel?

Farenheit 451

Atlas Shrugged.

One Second After, by William Forstchen. I think it qualifies as a dystopian novel.

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Originally posted by oddball:
Atlas Shrugged.

absolutely this.

The Giver.

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Originally posted by Jimineer:
One Second After, by William Forstchen. I think it qualifies as a dystopian novel.

Read the other two as well. One Year After, & The Final Day.

I just finished People's Republic by Kurt Schlichter. It's about when the US is split into 2 separate independent states. One liberal and one conservative. It's a good read.

Jim

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Originally posted by oddball:
Atlas Shrugged.

absolutely this.

As if it needed to be said.

Of course, if you haven't read it, you had better damned well get to it.

-Rob

Tagging for future reference. After 34 years of HATING reading. I found that I could get 1984 for free on my Kindle. I could not put it down.

Currently reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer to my boys when I put them down to sleep or nap. (They are 5 and 3).

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Originally posted by oddball:
Atlas Shrugged.

By far the most accurate and the de facto predictor of the eventual fall of the USSR.



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The Death World Trilogy by Harry Harrison.

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Originally posted by Sock Eating Golden:
Tagging for future reference. After 34 years of HATING reading. I found that I could get 1984 for free on my Kindle. I could not put it down.

Currently reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer to my boys when I put them down to sleep or nap. (They are 5 and 3).

good for you. One of my fondest memories as a small child was having my parents read to me every night before bed. We rarely watched TV in the evenings because I was always so excited to pick up where we left off the night before. I was reading at a high school level when I was 12, and still power through at least one book a week now (sometimes two), I'm certain both of those things go back to my parents reading to me at night.

Earth Abides.

Lucifer's Hammer.

One Second After.

The Road. (read the book then watch the movie)

Alas Babylon.

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"On the Beach" (Nevil Shute).

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
"On the Beach" (Nevil Shute).

It's a damned depressing book, but I couldn't put it down until I finished it. And I think the 1959 movie version is better than the 2000 version.

I've noticed that most dystopian novels are damned depressing.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
A Canticle for Leibowitz

It is good.

My pick is McCarthy's "The Road." Even the Pulitzer people agree.

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Originally posted by FenderBender:

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Originally posted by oddball:
Atlas Shrugged.

absolutely this.

I find it to be a book full of good ideas, but a terrible book to read. Rand is verbose, pedantic and repetitive in the extreme. Plus, her prose is about as exciting as cold oatmeal. She needed a strong editor and some writing talent.

Again - good ideas, but a terrible novel.