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.