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Personally I'd choose Brave New World because it's so expertly written, lures you into believing that their system is actually (if we get right down to it) a very good one but then at the end throws a spanner in the works.

Plus Huxley was a great thinker.

yeah, I like BNW a lot...

also, Deception Point was nice, though it had a cliche'd ending

I mean, uh, of course, Jennifer Government... *dodgy glances* yeah, because of course I've read it, I own 20 copies, I'm a huge fan, favorite book of all time....... *whistles innocently*

*whispers* the man is watching!

I like Brave New World, but alas I choose Animal Farm.

Animal farm...

1984

I like Brave New World, but alas I choose Animal Farm.
I love Orwell's novels as well, mind you.

I'd like to pick something fairly atypical, like James Joyce's "Ulysses" but I haven't finished reading it, or Upton Sinclair's "the Jungle" but I haven't started reading it.

I once read this cheap paperback which was by a woman called P. Harcourt that is probably one of the best I ever read. It's set in the 1970's if Canada had become a republic and the British Ambassador finds he and the Americans have been set up on some nuclear missile site which is leading to a popular revolution, and the fear is communism. The British Ambassador frames the American CIA agent in charge of being subverted by the reds and sets up fake evidence. The CIA agent actually turns out to be a red and flees back to the USSR.

Sallust's Catiline Conspiracy!

Kidding. Kidding.

jack london's the iron heel
eric frank russell's and then there were none
ursula k. leguin's the dispossessed

I'd like to pick something fairly atypical, like James Joyce's "Ulysses" but I haven't finished reading it, or Upton Sinclair's "the Jungle" but I haven't started reading it.

i suspect no one has ever read all of ulysses and its entire reputation is based on generations of literary posers blowing smoke up each other's butts.

Yertle the Turtle

Player Piano by Kurt Voneguet, of course Brave new world would be my top choice if not already taken.

The Bible.

The Bible.
I was waiting for that.

1984 for me

Yertle the Turtle

nice choice.

"And today the great Yertle, that Marvelous he,
Is King of the Mud. That is all he can see.
And the turtles, of course... all the turtles are free
As turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be."

1984 the rest of you feck off

Dune. Exploring religion, politics, and the fundamental flaws of humanity and still making it highly entertaining is quite the feat.

1984 the rest of you feck off

Yay for hate week. :p

I sort of liked Deception Point as a story, even though by now I was conditioned to look for the statement behind it and see if I agreed or disagreed - I haven't found it yet.

Brave New World is the best I've read yet. Truly utopic... but not.

Honestly I haven't read many. But so far, Animal Farm.

Red Alert, the more serious novel from which Dr. Strangelove was based off of

For me, it would be a close race between 1984 and Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury. Advise and Consent was the first political novel I had ever read and was quite taken by it.

i suspect no one has ever read all of ulysses and its entire reputation is based on generations of literary posers blowing smoke up each other's butts.
Perhaps that's true. But someday, someday <stands defiantly> someday I will read all of "Ulysses" and critique it for myself.

Starship Troopers. The novel, not the cruddy movie loosely based off it.

Perhaps that's true. But someday, someday <stands defiantly> someday I will read all of "Ulysses" and critique it for myself.

I hope you'll find the strength to do that. Last summer I set a goal for myself to read as much Proust as I could. By the end of July I had about one fourth of the first book read and I came to the decision that if someone told me Proust was great, I'd just nod and quickly change the subject :D

And the book here is clearly 1984, quite possibly the best book I've ever read. Brave New World and Player Piano are also some good reading though.

Starship Troopers. The novel, not the cruddy movie loosely based off it.

There is a Starship Troopers book? :eek: Definitely need to read that, I loved the film.









I was 13 and there were aliens, explosions and breasts in it :)

Yertle the Turtle


Dont leave out "McElligots Pool" !! Or the Sneetches.

For me, it would be a close race between 1984 and Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury. Advise and Consent was the first political novel I had ever read and was quite taken by it.


We read "1984" in 1982 in school. It was creepy and depressing feeling that was right around the corner. That seems so long ago now.

ursula k. leguin's the dispossessed

Ooh I love that book.

Also, would The Space Merchants qualify?

I was 13 and there were aliens, explosions and breasts in it :)

Good a reason as any I suppose ;)

Brave New World and Animal Farm