People almost never commit acts of evil for the sake of being evil and with the exception of true sociopaths even the worst of men rationalize their misdeeds. I think that is why I enjoyed Huxley so much more. Orwell made his world so bad that they were making everyone as miserable as possible simply because they could. Orwell's world is more frightening but I think Huxley's is more believable.
I can safely say that we've found one concept on which we can agree completely. Yay us.
If you could pass on only one book to the next generation, what would it be?
- 01/04/2011 10:29:47 AM
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The Kama Sutra
*NM*
- 01/04/2011 01:35:42 PM
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*NM*
- 01/04/2011 01:35:42 PM
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Well, it WOULD help insure that there would be at least 1 more generation after that... *NM*
- 01/04/2011 07:49:30 PM
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GRRM's SoIaF, maybe they will live long enough to see the series ended
- 01/04/2011 07:59:58 PM
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- 01/04/2011 07:59:58 PM
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Norton's Anthology *NM*
- 01/04/2011 08:44:18 PM
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Lord save me. *NM*
- 01/04/2011 08:46:13 PM
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quantiy over quality
- 03/04/2011 07:16:13 PM
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Re: quantiy over quality
- 03/04/2011 07:18:13 PM
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I was mostly pissed that I had to $60 for it and everything we read was available for free
- 03/04/2011 11:27:24 PM
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I'm tempted to say 1984
- 02/04/2011 01:32:22 PM
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Yeah, that seems like the obvious choice for me as well... but in my lifetime, no idea either. *NM*
- 02/04/2011 06:23:54 PM
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I'd go with Brave New World, actually.
- 02/04/2011 10:36:20 PM
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I think Huxley has a better understanding of human nature and less politcal motive
- 03/04/2011 04:48:19 AM
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I love your opening sentence
- 03/04/2011 02:34:45 PM
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Some parts of Orwell's dystopia did in fact come true, though.
- 03/04/2011 03:07:07 PM
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you really need to read Brave New World
- 03/04/2011 07:14:04 PM
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We agree again. *NM*
- 03/04/2011 07:45:06 PM
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stop that your scaring me *NM*
- 03/04/2011 11:27:52 PM
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I can berate you for writing "your" instead of "you're" if it makes you feel better. *NM*
- 03/04/2011 11:30:14 PM
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Can't recommend many published in my life that I've read;the Sprawl Trilogy if I can count a series.
- 03/04/2011 12:18:30 AM
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