Must Read Books, links to E-texts

[Julius Seeker]

Or you could just take them out at your local library. Or purchase it (if you don't mind spending insanely over-inflated rates, inflation rates of books are over 3 times the average inflation rate):

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
George Orwell, 1984
George Orwell, Animal Farm

[Nev]

I ought to read BNM and Animal Farm, certainly. I did like 1984, though it was one of the earliest times in my life that I ever went to bed utterly and completely filled with secondhand hopelessness and despair.

[Lox]

I read Animal Farm in 9th grade instead of paying attention in English class. Even then, I thought it was excellent and I got a lot of what it represented. Very awesome story.

BNW is also very good. I might have to give that a 2nd read since I haven't since 10th grade.

[Julius Seeker]

1984 was written while Orwell was dying of TB, he was dead months after completing the book. I think the fact that he was dying might explain the bleakness of it.


Anyways, the reason why I posted this is because I finished reading another Orwell book called "Road to Wigan Pier" a documentary written in 1936. It is possibly the best written documentary account I have ever read. This got me reading 1984 again, starting this evening, something I haven't done in near half a decade. BNW and Animal Farm, well, I can't read one of those three and not read the other two as well.

The politcal climate has changed somewhat in the last few years. We view government differently than before, we also view the population differently than before. The population thinks differently than before. There is also the economic state to consider as well. It will definitely be interesting to see how/if views on the contents of these books have changed with the political climate change. Needless to say, they'll be interesting to read again.

[Zeus]

Brave New World might have been the best book I read in 5 years of English class in high school.

[Julius Seeker]

Brave New World might have been the best book I read in 5 years of English class in high school.

It is a unique book mainly because, unlike Animal Farm and 1984, the other two big Dystopian books, it (Brave New World) can be argued to also be a Utopian novel as well. Huxley blurred the lines between Dystopia and Utopia.

[Shellie]

Ill have to read Brave New World. I also read Animal Farm in HS, and Sine made me read 1984 a few years back.

It'll give me soemthing to do at work