Favorite Dystopian Novel
Kervoskia
21-03-2005, 04:52
Discuss.
P.S. I know that after two replies this thread will die, I am the weakest link!
Willamena
21-03-2005, 04:53
Is this a dinosaur thing?
Soviet Narco State
21-03-2005, 04:53
The Grapes of Wrath. It made me commie.
Neo-Anarchists
21-03-2005, 04:54
Discuss.
P.S. I know that after two replies this thread will die, I am the weakest link!
Ooh, you got more than two replies! pwned.
Favorite dystopian novel? I don't really know...
I suppose I hold a soft spot for 1984.
Kervoskia
21-03-2005, 04:56
Brave New World is good as is Fahrenheit 451.
Alien Born
21-03-2005, 04:59
What would count as dystopian, is always a doubt I have in this type of discussion.
Do androids dream of Electric Sheep?
or maybe better still:
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Both by Philip K Dick
German Kingdoms
21-03-2005, 05:42
1984
ElleDiamonique
21-03-2005, 05:49
George Orwell's Animal Farm.
UntiedStates
21-03-2005, 06:05
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Hands down. Nothing says Dystopian better than Zaphod Beeblebrox. President of the Universe :D
Pepe Dominguez
21-03-2005, 06:26
I think Darkness at Noon is superior to 1984 - it doesn't rely on now-stale allegory and hasn't been used as a sloganeering tool by our differend political factions..
Heiligkeit
21-03-2005, 07:40
1984, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit451
Bitchkitten
21-03-2005, 07:42
A Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
Pantheaa
21-03-2005, 08:07
Clockwork Orange, love both the movie and the book. The book actually made me a fan of the "dreaded 9th" hehehe
i also like fight club even though its not a dystopian, espicalliy this quote. Its like something that Jean Baudrillard would right
"Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see us squandering it. God d*** it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy **** we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly waking up to that fact, people. And we're very, very pissed off." Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
I rather liked The Space Merchants, mostly because it seemed so plausible (at the time it was written). My favorite though is hard to pin down, right now I would go for A Canticle For Libowitz (and it is a dystopia, don't let the obstensible setting fool you) but that could change at any time.
Kervoskia
22-03-2005, 00:17
I rather liked The Space Merchants, mostly because it seemed so plausible (at the time it was written). My favorite though is hard to pin down, right now I would go for A Canticle For Libowitz (and it is a dystopia, don't let the obstensible setting fool you) but that could change at any time.
Sounds interesting.
Tie between 1984 and Fahrenheit 451.
Kiwi-kiwi
22-03-2005, 00:22
Of the ones I've read... The Giver. That's a dystopian novel, isn't it...?
The only other one I recall having read being Animal Farm... So I don't exactly have a wide selection to choose from.
I think Darkness at Noon is superior to 1984 - it doesn't rely on now-stale allegory and hasn't been used as a sloganeering tool by our differend political factions..
According to my sources, it is basically an attack on socialism that tries to pretend that all forms of socialism are like Stalinism (which I personally don't consider socialism, a common opinion among socialists).
1984, with Brave New World coming in a pretty distant second.
Animal Farm, yeah, but erm, it's about animals, and erm, yeah. :|
Linguicism
22-03-2005, 02:17
Am reading 'Fatherland' by Robert Harris at the moment, very good but until I finish, it's a tie between Animal Farm and 1984.
Pablo The Squirrel
22-03-2005, 02:21
Jennifer Government ;)