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Black Rider
March 20th,2003, 02:12 AM
a dystopia is the oposite of a utopia. on that, the following is a list of novels i've got to pick from for my final project in history. does anyone have any reccomendations, i don't even know where to start! mecry

The Iron Heel (Jack London)
We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
1984 (George Orwell)
Anthem (Ayn Rand)
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Ecotopia (Ernest Callenbach)
Fatherland (Robert Harris)
Cat’s Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
Galapagos (Kurt Vonnegut)
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller)

Caligula
March 21st,2003, 10:53 PM
I can only comment on two of these books (which is better than none).

The Handmaid's Tail is awesone!! I wish we could have read it in school, but it's banned where I live. pfbbt

Fahrenheit 451- Everyone I know says that this was such a great book, yadda, yadda, yadda. However, I never really did like it...... it was alright, but not spectacular, as all my friends and family claim. It's very short, so if you want to read it and make your own opinion, that's fine.

I hope this helps at least a bit, but since I don't know the particulars of the project, I can't tell.... did you need a summary, an opinion or what?

Black Rider
March 21st,2003, 11:53 PM
i just needed to know that some of thee books actually exist because i've only heard of farenheight 451, clockwork orange and brave new world. but that was actually very helpful. much appreciated!