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July 17, 2017, 02:42 PM
stickman428
Favorite dystopian novel?
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?


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July 17, 2017, 02:48 PM
Fredward
Farenheit 451
July 17, 2017, 02:54 PM
oddball
Atlas Shrugged.


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July 17, 2017, 03:04 PM
Jimineer
One Second After, by William Forstchen. I think it qualifies as a dystopian novel.
July 17, 2017, 03:08 PM
FenderBender
quote:
Originally posted by oddball:
Atlas Shrugged.
absolutely this.


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July 17, 2017, 03:09 PM
Aeteocles
The Giver.
July 17, 2017, 03:09 PM
vinnybass
quote:
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.


"We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities."
July 17, 2017, 03:11 PM
Jimbo54
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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July 17, 2017, 03:18 PM
BurtonRW
quote:
Originally posted by FenderBender:
quote:
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



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July 17, 2017, 03:24 PM
RogueJSK
A Canticle for Leibowitz
July 17, 2017, 03:50 PM
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).


Nick


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July 17, 2017, 03:56 PM
TigerDore
quote:
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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July 17, 2017, 03:59 PM
Sig2340
The Death World Trilogy by Harry Harrison.




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July 17, 2017, 04:05 PM
cmr076
quote:
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.


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July 17, 2017, 04:08 PM
Sig209
Earth Abides.

Lucifer's Hammer.

One Second After.

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

Alas Babylon.

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July 17, 2017, 04:23 PM
Pipe Smoker
"On the Beach" (Nevil Shute).


Serious about crackers.
July 17, 2017, 04:32 PM
Tailhook 84
quote:
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.



"The Truth, when first uttered, is always considered heresy."
July 17, 2017, 04:39 PM
Pipe Smoker
I've noticed that most dystopian novels are damned depressing. Smile


Serious about crackers.
July 17, 2017, 04:45 PM
jhe888
quote:
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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July 17, 2017, 04:48 PM
jhe888
quote:
Originally posted by FenderBender:
quote:
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.



The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything.