Inspired by comments in the What Have You Been Reading Lately thread.
Which book do you prefer? Poll coming.
Which book do you prefer? Poll coming.
Only read 1984. And that was almost 10 years ago.
for those that read these books in high school . . . go back and reread them. they are absolute masterpieces. and if you really want a test of endurance, go for atlas shrugged by ayn rand. read it as cheese and i traversed spain. it was incredible.
ps - 1984 by a shot. i really didn't care for the "savages" portion of BNW.
Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience
After reading 1984, Aldous Huxley wrote to George Orwell in a letter:
Don't really admire Huxley the person, but he was incredibly insightful. I
I'll take the short Harrison Bergeron over both. Always been more of a Vonnegut fan. They're all dystopians, I suppose.
I like Harrison Bergeron too, but it's just too short to weigh against the others. If there were more to it, deeper into the stuff that balanced everyone out (can't remember what they called them) it would have been awesome. It was far more funny though, than either BNW or 1984. But that's Vonnegut.
I know few agree with me, but I always thought Bergeron was a bit too obvious or overplayed.I like Harrison Bergeron too, but it's just too short to weigh against the others. If there were more to it, deeper into the stuff that balanced everyone out (can't remember what they called them) it would have been awesome. It was far more funny though, than either BNW or 1984. But that's Vonnegut.
I know few agree with me, but I always thought Bergeron was a bit too obvious or overplayed.
Never connected the two, well done.A short story that prophesied the evils of social correctness 30 years before it became an American institution? Too obvious and overplayed?
You've apparently never heard Donna Shalala speak.