01-18-2002, 11:11 AM | #1 |
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Brave New World
I'm in the process of reading....BUt i'm still interested in people's reactions now! who here has read it?
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04-10-2002, 02:07 AM | #2 |
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I have! It's a very interesting book, with a very strange distopia, that's for sure. It's not quite as good as animal farm, or 1984, though. What did you think?
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04-12-2002, 11:35 PM | #3 |
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Another great book! BoP's right though, not as good as 1984 (few books are, though). I love the description of how human dispositions are manipulated so completely. It's fascinating, if a little morbid.
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04-13-2002, 09:27 AM | #4 |
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I actually liked Brave New World better than 1984. BNW is one of my favorite books of all time.
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04-13-2002, 09:39 AM | #5 |
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Each to their own. I find it a little more simplistic in scope than 1984, still a great book though! Must read it again, right after I finish the first Wheel of Time book...
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04-15-2002, 08:32 PM | #6 |
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What is the big button that doesn't do anything, will someone tell me?!
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04-15-2002, 08:35 PM | #7 |
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It's a big button that does....
...... nothing.
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04-15-2002, 08:36 PM | #8 |
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And the point is?????????????????:confuseder:
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04-16-2002, 09:06 PM | #9 |
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Let me try to explain:
It's a Button. It's a Really Big Button. It doesn't do anything. Get it?
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04-16-2002, 09:12 PM | #10 |
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I think I get it.
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04-16-2002, 09:45 PM | #11 |
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You are one of few enlighted ones . . .
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04-17-2002, 01:03 PM | #12 |
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Oh boy, I think I managed to mess up every single thread. I think you were talking about A Brave New World. I retire this thread to you until I have actually read the book and know what you're talking about.
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04-17-2002, 05:08 PM | #13 |
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Brave new world eh? Now that was scary....
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04-18-2002, 12:05 AM | #14 | |
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Quote:
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"The Astels are an emotional people. They cry at the drop of a handkerchief. Their culture is much like that of Pelosia. They're extremely devot and invincibly backward. It's been demonstrated to them over an over that serfdom is an archaic, inefficent institution, but they maintain it anyway--largely at the connivance of the serfs thmselves. Astellian nobles don't exert themselves in any way, so they have no concept of human endurance. The serfs take advantage of that outrageously. Astellian serfs have been known to collapse from sheer exhauston at the very mention of such unpleasant words as 'reaping' or 'digging'." ----------------------------------------------- “They lost him?!” Lupin asked , amazed. “Voldemort has been after Harry for 15 years, and then he misplaces him?!” |
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