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Topic: Two Classic Books
Posted By: WaywardSon
Subject: Two Classic Books
Date Posted: February 24 2008 at 02:40
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Just read these two books recently, so I was wondering..
Which did you prefer?
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Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: February 24 2008 at 02:42
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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. -------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: SpaceMonkey
Date Posted: February 24 2008 at 03:19
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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.
Nice topic.
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: February 24 2008 at 04:11
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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. |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: February 24 2008 at 04:26
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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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Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: February 24 2008 at 19:40
| Animal Farm was the book that made me want to read more. What a damn good book. |
Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: February 25 2008 at 08:57
Probably Animal Farm, bu i need to think it over..it's not so easy .
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Posted By: paolo.beenees
Date Posted: February 25 2008 at 09:12
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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
 ).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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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: February 25 2008 at 09:24
Well said!
 I love Brave New World, especially the first half of it. |
paolo.beenees wrote:Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 25 2008 at 10:03
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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". -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: February 25 2008 at 20:58
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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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Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: February 26 2008 at 03:10
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. |
Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: February 26 2008 at 07:16
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A recommendation on the same theme, although not a classic: Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/LinusW88" rel="nofollow - Blargh |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: February 27 2008 at 08:55
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Both very good -- both quite essential.
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.  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: February 27 2008 at 14:55
Yes, another classic!  |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: February 28 2008 at 21:13
Yevgeny Zamyatin's We from 1921.  I've actually not read either of the two books listed here, neither have I read Nineteen Eighty-Four.  -------------   
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