need a good book

**|NTeRN** · December 25th, 2003, 04:28 PM

im looking for a good book that simular to Brave New World, Handmaids Tale, and 1981. i heard there was a good one that came out this year but i cant find anything. i really like the "government opression" kind of books if that helps... plz help

**cucaracha** · December 25th, 2003, 05:16 PM

Illuminatus!

by R.Wilson and R.Shea....

kah-razy!

edit: well, not quite exactly what you are looking for.... kah-razy anyways

**mtw** · December 25th, 2003, 05:18 PM

Fahrenheit 451 or whatever the number was.

So, uh, where's that avatar from?

**|NTeRN** · December 25th, 2003, 11:23 PM

i've read fahrenheit 451, good book.....

whats Illuminatus about?

i got the first 3 books of The Wheel Of Time series. (simular to LOTR) heard its a good seires

i got the avatar from another msg board i used to look at..

**AnarchyAo2** · December 26th, 2003, 09:38 AM

First off, it took me 10 minutes to read this thread, 9 out of the 10 was spent looking at your advatar. :inlove:

Anyway, I'm really into fantasy books. So I can give you a list of those.
Sword of Truth Series: By Terry Goodkind
A Song of Ice and Fire: George R. R. Martin
The Darktower Series: Stephen King

Hehe my list isn't too big because I've been reading fantasy books for about a year now. My friend just told me, to tell you, to read a book called "Choke" he says its about a sex addict. He said its wierd and you might like it. Hes an idiot, you don't have to listen to him.

**ClocktowerArtworks** · December 26th, 2003, 11:08 AM

Choke, i believe, is by Chuck Palhanuik (no idea how to spell that last name). The guy who wrote fight club. good books. that's all.

**Elwell** · December 26th, 2003, 12:19 PM

Do a Google search for "dystopia" and you'll pull up a lot of leads.

My suggestions...

Fatherland by Richard Harris (avoid the crappy TV movie version at all costs, though).

A Clockwork Orange

Alan Moore's V for Vendetta.

Also, if you liked the Handmaid's Tale, Atwood has a new book out called Oryx and Crake.

**cucaracha** · December 26th, 2003, 01:18 PM

Illuminatus! is about the truth

cu

**oglzogl** · December 26th, 2003, 05:50 PM

You might like Herman Hesse's Steppenwolf or George Orwell's Animal Farm. For some reason these came to mind.. along with authors like Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Robbins (the last two are both kind of comical writers but their overall world view is along the same lines as Huxley's.. maybe?).

You can never go wrong with Mark Twain. Definately one of my favorite writers. His short story "the Mysterious Stranger" is probably one of the greatest IMHO. "Letters from the Earth" is nice too.

.. if you like Brave New World you might get a kick out of these authors anyway.

**DETHSTRYKER** · December 29th, 2003, 08:01 PM

my $0.02:

"Armor" John Steakley.
Highly Recommended!!! ***** (5stars)

"Stranger in a Strange World" Robert Heinlein
Anything by Heinlein really. ANYTHING!

Anything from Isaac Asimov really.

These all have that feel you are looking for. I am into the same genre you are. so i know. when i have more time i'll post more.

**DETHSTRYKER** · December 29th, 2003, 08:04 PM

Heinlein is really where its at! "Puppet Masters" is another one of his good books. Anything Heinlein is where it is at. Believe it or not "Starship Trooper" (which only has two things in common with a the movie: the title and they both have soldiers. thats it. nothing more.)

**Kogepan** · December 29th, 2003, 10:28 PM

I have to second some of Oglzogl's picks. If you liked 1984 & Brave New World, you'll probably enjoy Animal Farm. Of those three it's my favorite. Personally I think it should be read to children before bed.

Also Slaughterhouse 5 is a good introduction to Kurt Vonnegut. You may end up liking him, you may not. But at least that book is based on a historical event (the firebombing of Dresden) that Vonnegut was a witness to. So it's probably relevant one way or another.

Um. Regarding Hermann Hesse... all his works are slower than the others mentioned. And I'm not as fond of Steppenwolf as I am of his others. Siddhartha is really good, but you might find it boring. Hard to say. The Glass Bead Game is also good -- it won him the nobel prize for literature -- but it's huge.

Oh. And as far as fantasy is concerned, I'm not a big fan myself, but I still enjoyed George RR Martin's series, which AnarchyAo2 already mentioned... The Wheel of Time turned to crap at some point, in my opinion. I liked the first 3 or 4, but I gave up on the series half way into the 5th or 6th.

Have you read Fight Club? Since terrorism is a part of the book it might hit closer to home than when I read it. If you're from the US anyway. I actually thought of this book when I turned on the TV the morning of sept. 11th.

Hmm. So i didn't actually make any new recommendations... well, whatever. it's all good, pimpin.

**Marcatili** · December 29th, 2003, 10:52 PM

Personally I think Palahniuk's book "Lullaby" has more overtly political/ social statements in it than "Choke" but I guess when you're reading any of Palahniuk's books you're going to get extreme statements of any kind...Fight Club, of course is the obvious example but I preferred the film.
"Survivor" another Palahniuk book talks a lot about engineered celebrity and all that sorta stuff...

I'm done

**threelegged_chicken** · December 29th, 2003, 10:54 PM

here's a couple...

The Giver;Lois Lowry[maybe alittle easy though... read it in like 6th grade and just recently picked up a copy and reread it so its been fresh on my mind..

Jules Verne's of course are cool.

not really the dystopia/satirical kind of book but about Vietnam "Fallen Angels" ; Walter Dean Myers

3-leg

**Mr. Teatime** · December 30th, 2003, 03:31 AM

Heinlein: Have spacesuit will travel is a good book.
bunch of terry pratchett ones are good (discworld series)
1984 is the weirdest book ive read but i liked it.
lloyd alexander chronicles of prydain or good (7 books)
Asamov: caves of steel, all the robot novels.
and getfuzzy comic sstrip treasury.