is that a reference from 1984?
i love utopian literature
Utopian literature is definetly my favorite. What are some other good works that fall under that topic because I'm running out. I've read Brave New World, Clockwork Orange, 1984..and I have Cats Cradle waiting to be read.
lord of the flies?
horrible evil book -hiss-
yeah, that book was great...."sucks to your asthmar". Hey how about a separate peace, and to kill a mockingbird? Those books really stand out in my mind too.
I renamed Lord of the Flies "Wizard, the Story of Naked Boys" as a freshmen. I never read a separate peace but now I just may have to run back to Barnes and Nobles and spend even more money. To Kill and Mockingbird has always been my most favorist book ever.
i don't really enjoy to kill a mockingbird. its good but i saw the movie, play, and read the book. good but not a favorite.
i don't like that book. very upsetting and stupid. dumb boys killed the innocent and nice ones.
how about fahrenheit 451? oh, and that one about meat packing...i cant think of the title and i never read it...but i hear its good and i think its about utopian society.
Ah, I read that and forgot about it! I enjoyed it and it made me very sad, burning books and all. The Jungle? Because that's just gross, or Slaughter House 5 or something like that?
yeah! Slaughter house 5...thats the one i was thinking of.
That's Kurt right? Yeah, he and I are on a first name basis but not really, I just didn't want to mess up his last name.
hahaha, yeah...i looked it up to get the spelling....its vonnegut...i probably would have "slaughtered" it...ouch, that pun was lame.
haahaa I love pun's! I think they can be so amazing, though not everyone always catches on.
ok i don't like where this conversation is going AT ALL.
You sound very emotional, what's wrong?
u would be correct
hehe, we were supposed to read that book at the last minute for my 11th grade english class. we had like 1 week left until we had to drop the books and study for exams. no one in our class read the whole thing. i didn't either. the teacher wanted us to read like 40 pages a night i think. i couldn't keep up, but hey i still passed the final.
You should read it now anyways, it's amazingly awe-some.
i just started reading it. very interesting ideas because many of them came true.
Did you really? I'm so happy now that I can talk to you about it! It really is just so amazing. You didn't borrow my copy did you? You better not have.
And to the whole 'came true' idea- In Junior Yr history my final project was to read three dystopia books (I picked 1984, Brave New World, Clockwork Orange) and then write a paper talking about all three and which is the most likely to come true for the United States. It's insane because if I wasn't a witness and didn't know what was to come true in the near future, a combination of all those books is very likely. The government covers up a lot of stuff as it is and people are so ignorant, it would be very easy to just pretend we were in a war with another country for the economy's sake. Or genetic engineering so some people are dumb and do stupid-people jobs and other people are smart. Or crazy reform places.
i know! Thats why i love utopian litererature soo much, because it makes sense. If we didn't know that Jehovah was going to step in, i could totally see a brave new world happening...especially with all the genetic engineering that is going on. Its so scarey. boy am i glad we know the truth.
So how many votes do we have for an eZabel Book Club? (seriously.)
i vote in favor of
I'd be totally in! But..let's not make it like Oprah's where we all end up starring in a scary movie about dead ex-slave babies coming back to life to haunt our house a.k.a. Beloved.
i'd do it. i keep running out of good books to read.
wow i missed this but you know i count as 2 votes for my left hand and my right
yeah i don't remember seeing this but there was another new comment and then i saw that and i voted a yes!!
So has there been any follow-up on the ezabel book club? Its an interesting concept.
I'm gonna put it on as soon as I can find some time to set it up.
dystopia = really screwed up world
utopia = wonderful happy world
I used the phrase Dystopia in my essay on my summer reading of 1984 Sophmore year and my English teacher told me I could not use that because it wasn't a real word and too oxymoron-ish. Of course, she was a moron because I had been using the phrase "negative utopia" until I discovered "dystopia" on the back cover of my 1984 book.
webster's says it came into usage around 1950. so unless she was 100 years old, she's got no excuse. it's a valid english word. english is all about inventing words and its a very evolutionary language anyway.
Maybe she was trying to pull a 1984 and get rid of words? She wasn't too old but she resembled a mix between Moby Dick and a Pilgrim. She was also very into talking about sex and no matter what the work we were discussing was about, it really was about the sex.
that would be like starting to study the morning of armageddon, no?
lol yeah you can put it that way