Book Club

[Group 5 minus 1]

Fahrenheit 451. Movies not so bad,either.

[haddon9]

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@ALRATIBA wrote:

Two friends and I were discussing books ----  and trading book "recommendations"  for winter reading and the topic of dystopian novels came up.   Then the discussion turned into how "prophetic" some of them turned out to be.

Have you read any that you'd recommend?

This is my top five.  

1 - Lord of the World – Robert Hugh Benson (1908) *

2 - Anthem  - Ayn Rand  (1938)

3 - 1984 – George Orwell  (1949)

4 - Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury  (1953)

5 - The Giver -  Lois Lowry (1993) **

*    My favorite.  I plan to read it again.  Sometimes, a books is so engrossing I'm rushing through to find out how it ends.  And, then later - read it agan  - slowly this time.

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I just reread 1984 earlier in the year.  It was required reading in high school (before 1984) which was still in the future.

I find dystopian novels to be somewhat depressing so I don't tend to read them.  I see enough depressing things going on in the news, etc.

[Group 5 minus 1]

Forgot about The Handmaids Tale.

The film w/Robert Duval was spectacular. When you look at his face he is so sad.