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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 05:02:38 No.7297449 View Reply Report Delete

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Name a better dystopian novel

Hint: you can't

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 05:10:52 No.7297473 Report Delete

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The Foundation Pit

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 05:12:09 No.7297478 Report Delete

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Under the Iron Heel

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 05:13:06 No.7297480 Report Delete

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looks like a shot from tarkovskys stalker

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 05:16:16 No.7297487 Report Delete

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What is the best translation of We?

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 05:19:28 No.7297494 Report Delete

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2015

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 05:23:09 No.7297504 Report Delete

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>>7297449
The conversation with the world controller in Brave New World is better than the sum of all other dystopian novels combined.

>>7297487
Penguin classics always have good translators. They had Pevear and Volokhonsky for Tolstoy who are the best, and a good one for Dumas too.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 05:25:04 No.7297510 Report Delete

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>>7297504
>p/v
>best

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 05:25:54 No.7297513 Report Delete

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>>7297510
> Meme arrows

> An argument

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 05:27:58 No.7297518 Report Delete

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>>7297504
>The conversation with the world controller in Brave New World is better than the sum of all other dystopian novels combined.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing to be said about dystopian novels? Because Huxely is completely unable to show and rather has to tell. He writes fiction essays. For me that scene is epitomises everything that is wrong with his writing?

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 05:34:52 No.7297533 Report Delete

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>>7297518
It also epitomises everything that is right with his thinking though.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 05:35:25 No.7297534 Report Delete

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>>7297513
An argument over translations would be memey anyway; personally I find p/v's translations to be awkward

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 12:52:45 No.7298430 Report Delete

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>>7297449
Nice try gestapo, pls go we know this shit was b&
its still dank tho

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 15:31:44 No.7298911 Report Delete

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>>7297478
The Iron Heel is literally Ayn Rand tier.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 15:40:53 No.7298952 Report Delete

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>>7297518
I think it just goes to show that he was an essayist first and fiction writer second. The world controller ended up being a mouth piece for opinion he wanted to expose.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 16:15:31 No.7299087 Report Delete

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>>7297449
I let my ex borrow this book, she never read it and I never got it back

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 16:19:47 No.7299107 Report Delete

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>>7297449
Life and Fate

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 17:02:22 No.7299247 Report Delete

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I liked We but I think I read a poor translation and I rushed through it too fast.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 17:03:41 No.7299253 Report Delete

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>>7295849
Anthem

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Anonymouse Thu 29 Oct 2015 20:11:19 No.7300001 Report Delete

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>>7297449
1984
Get the fug outta here newfag
That wasnt even a challenge

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 20:12:52 No.7300006 Report Delete

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>>7297449
The 'I Died' section is schway

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 20:19:51 No.7300019 Report Delete

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>>7300001
lol
are you even trying?
1984 isnt even better than BNW

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 20:27:15 No.7300039 Report Delete

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We is horrible. Rather read Orwell

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 20:29:53 No.7300053 Report Delete

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>>7300019
BNW is not even a dystopia.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 20:31:14 No.7300062 Report Delete

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Never Let Me Go, 1984, Brave New World, The Handmaid's Tale all better tbqh

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 20:51:15 No.7300125 Report Delete

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>>7297449
>not realizing Infinite Jest is the best dystopian novel ever written

Gentle's ONANTA is the ultimate dystopia, and the prime dissidents are fucking quebecois wheelchair revolutionists.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 21:11:19 No.7300186 Report Delete

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>>7298911

>Ayn Rand tier

I like Anthem tbqh

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 21:13:16 No.7300192 Report Delete

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>>7297449
>Dystopian novels
>good
OP is Just Not Ready

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 21:13:28 No.7300194 Report Delete

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>>7300125

Don't even joke about that shit. IJ is the most overrated piece of shit ever published and DFW is a fucking cunt, GOD I HATE HIM AND HIS SHIT EATING GRIN SO FUCKING MUCH JESUS FUCK!!!!

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 01:04:58 No.7300999 Report Delete

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>>7297449
the stranger by william whitman

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 01:16:34 No.7301024 Report Delete

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>>7297449
Name a thread that should be deleted.

Hint: It's yours

Here's another hint: This thread

Please stop starting threads like this. Are you really all pinheads?

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 11:33:53 No.7302331 Report Delete

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>>7300062
Never let me go was bad. Bnw I agree with though

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 15:00:30 No.7302997 Report Delete

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>>7297449
solid 6/10

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 15:17:11 No.7303062 Report Delete

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>>7297504
Using flat characters and dry dialogue as a way to present thinly disguised essays on society and technology is a proud tradition of hard science fiction. If you don't like that genre, just don't read it.

http://web.archive.org/web/20100305143054/http://www.shrovetuesdayobserved.com/flight.html

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 15:18:24 No.7303069 Report Delete

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>>7303062
Meant to reply to >>7297518, sorry.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 15:25:20 No.7303085 Report Delete

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>>7297449
my diary tbh

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 15:32:42 No.7303107 Report Delete

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>>7300053

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 15:38:34 No.7303132 Report Delete

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>>7303107
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look at this fucking face aaha

and the fucking hat

>>7300053
haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahhaahahahahhaahh

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 16:23:22 No.7303294 Report Delete

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I know most of you will dismiss it as YA garbage, but the Giver was pretty good. It really sucked you in and made you like the dystopia before revealing it's horrors.

And even though it doesn't count, I really like the Kurt Vonnegut short story Harrison Bergeron.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 16:24:49 No.7303300 Report Delete

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>>7297504
>Penguin classics always have good translators.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 16:30:54 No.7303328 Report Delete

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>>7297504

Maude is best for Tolstoy.

>>7297534

I don't know. Works fine for Gogol in my experience.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 17:19:40 No.7303476 Report Delete

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>>7303294
Keep that baby's first dystopia crap off this board.

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