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I don't know about these books, so I'll just shamelessly shill my list like the egotistical jerkoff I am

>finished 1984 ending pissed me off

>reading Going Clear

>Reading The Rise and Fall of Rome

>Reading Neuromancer

>>8388294
I've only read 1984 out of these, and agree about the ending. However, I've not really found a dystopian book that focused this much on the way the system works *and* had a satisfying ending. Maybe I'll try to tackle that challenge at some point as a writer.

>>8388302
I read an article that basically said that G.O. did that to show the how hopeless a dystopia society would be, that all fine but I also think it was a cop out because G.O. had trouble finishing it.

Just started Villette.

I can already imagine it would make a great animu

>>8388279
>Thoughts on some of these books?
Well, they're children's books. Yes, including Hawkins' one.

Alice is the best one, I suppose.

If you're doing your child reading right now, make sure to do
- D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths (START WITH THE GREEKS)
- Kipling. The Jungle Book, for example.
- Verne. Say Around the World in Eighty Days.
- Wells. The Time Machine, I suppose.
- The Worst Witch series (the books are short as fuck, and it's much better than the much more famous book series that plagiarized it).
- Ellen Raskin (The Westing Game, of course, but The Tattoed Potato holds a very special place in my heart)
- The Brothers Grimm (The 2014 full collection by Princeton is superb)
- Hans Christian Andersen (The 2007 full collection by B&N is by far the best I've found)
- Aesop (The '98 full collection by Penguin is the one I'd recommend. You should actually read this after the D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths to keep the meme going)
- Dickens
- Twain
- Coraline by Neil Gaiman
- Orwell's Animal Farm is also structured like a children's book, but it's much more than that of course.

Antifragile (finished)
Shakespeare's Sonnets
The Buried Giant