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    Posted: February 24 2008 at 02:40
Just read these two books recently, so I was wondering..
Which did you prefer?
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Wow that is a tough one.
I'm going with Animal Farm because I like Orwell's writing style better, but you really can't go wrong with either.
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They both portray the problems of ignorant societies, and how well the can be controlled. Animal Farm, I'm a big Orwell fan.
 
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I love both books, so the choice wasn't easy... However, I decided to go with Golding's bleak depiction of loss of innocence and descent into mankind's worst instincts. In a way, I would see this book as complementary to Orwell's terrifying 1984.
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I only read Golding (I know, I know, boo...I'll get to Orwell some day...) and it's a great book.

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Animal Farm was the book that made me want to read more.  What a damn good book.
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Probably Animal Farm, bu i need to think it over..it's not so easy .Wink
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"Lord of the Flies" just destroys your faith in the innocent child/wild man. They can be evil too, it's a matter of choice, and that's disturbing.
In my opinion, "The Animal Farm" is a sort of preparation to "1984" (well, honestly I don't know if it was written before or after Orwell's masterpiece Embarrassed).
These books, nevertheless, must be read together with A. Huxley's "Brave New World". Together they cast a different light on today's world.
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Originally posted by paolo.beenees paolo.beenees wrote:

"Lord of the Flies" just destroys your faith in the innocent child/wild man. They can be evil too, it's a matter of choice, and that's disturbing.
In my opinion, "The Animal Farm" is a sort of preparation to "1984" (well, honestly I don't know if it was written before or after Orwell's masterpiece Embarrassed).
These books, nevertheless, must be read together with A. Huxley's "Brave New World". Together they cast a different light on today's world.
 
Well said!Clap I love Brave New World, especially the first half of it.
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Having had to read them for my English lessons when I went to school I have mixed feelings about them. Not that I had problems understanding them, but the reception of a book just is not the same when you are being sent through the treadmill of "What is the author trying to tell us with this"? If I had to vote I would vote for "Animal Farm".
Another book that belongs among the classic dystopian novels like "1984", "Animal Farm", "Brave New World" and "Lord of the Flies" is Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451".


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If anyone hasn't read one or more of the books in Friede's post, I recommend them all. Five amazing works. 
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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Having had to read them for my English lessons when I went to school I have mixed feelings about them. Not that I had problems understanding them, but the reception of a book just is not the same when you are being sent through the treadmill of "What is the author trying to tell us with this"? If I had to vote I would vote for animal farm.
Another book that belongs among the classic dystopian novels like "1984", "Animal Farm", "Brave New World" and "Lord of the Flies" is Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451".
I read all the books you listed (except "Brave") in middle school by myself.
In high school I was forced to read them, it is certainly not the same.

I picked Lord of the Flies, mostly because of the setting . By looking around the conflicts of the world, you could see what Golding is saying.
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A recommendation on the same theme, although not a classic:

Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
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Both very good -- both quite essential. ClapClap
 
I wasn't "made" to read either of them, and thoroughly enjoyed each. (Not that I disliked everything I read in school -- far from it.)
 
I think I have a somewhat softer spot for the disgruntled Mr. Orwell in general, though. Thumbs%20Up
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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451".


Yes, another classic!  Clap
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Yevgeny Zamyatin's We from 1921. Wink

I've actually not read either of the two books listed here, neither have I read Nineteen Eighty-Four. Shocked
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