Is it worth a read?

>>9045112
Yes, if you're in 8th grade. Otherwise I'd just read a plot synopsis, considering the fact that it is a culturally relevant novel. But if you're into dystopianism, check out We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.

No. It's the sort of thing that's been taken out of context and elevated to meme status so hard by normies and Redditors that there's no possible way it can deliver.

yes. well written, imaginative, and I enjoyed the whole philosophy in regard to thoroughly breaking down the protag and making him betray his ideals and reality. .

and it's concise.

>>9045112
I'm writing a narratological analysis about this for class. It's interesting how big brother/new speak gradually merges/blends into the focalizer.

Read "The unsung artistry of Orwell"

>>9046541
>narrotological
>focalizer

Pseud spotted

Definitely

It's entry level. You should have read it already,

Of course.

>>9045112
Huxley is better and more relevant in 2017

Cold War is over

I haven't read it but I've been told it's childishly overdramatic and ridiculous. Is this true?

>>9047799
Huxley's BNW is far more scarier than 1984, because it's what we are being led to.
Bot are very good

Yes, indispensable and you should have read it already. It's not really about the dystopia it's about the facets of human nature that draw us toward totalitarianism.

>>9047832
>>9047761

Any other books you think that everyone here should have read already? I'm not OP but I'd like to see if I've missed anything. Keep it to the real essentials and not some meme list.

>>9045112
definitely yes, all these other comments are just pure /lit/ elitism at its finest - can't believe it.

>>9047897
Antigone
1984
Brave New World
Hamlet
Macbeth
Crying of Lot 49
Lolita
Dubliners
The Stranger
Metamorphosis and In the Penal Colony
Catch-22
Labyrinths
Great Gatsby probably

I would say The Little Prince and the Tao The Ching but that's just be me. The above are the things I would expect any poster here to have already read.

>>9049061
>In the Penal Colony
Why not The Trial?

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>>9047832
>It's not really about the dystopia it's about the facets of human nature that draw us toward totalitarianism.

If you think that's the main point of the book then you are fucking retarded. Consider the metaphysical implications at the very least.

It's just a shittier, British verison of We

>>9045117
Second the We recommendation

>>9049061
>solid greek play
>high school
>high school
>high school Shakespeare
>high school Shakes
>lame pomo
>solid pomo
>Joyce's least interesting prose
>solid existentialism
>actually great
>pomo
>really great but pomo
>high school

ehhhh

>>9049078
>>solid greek play
>>high school
>>high school
>>high school Shakespeare
>>high school Shakes
>>lame pomo
>>solid pomo
>>Joyce's least interesting prose
>>solid existentialism
>>actually great
>>pomo
>>really great but pomo
>>high school

>ehhhh

ehhhh

>>9049081
>>solid greek play
>>high school
>>high school
>>high school Shakespeare
>>high school Shakes
>>lame pomo
>>solid pomo
>>Joyce's least interesting prose
>>solid existentialism
>>actually great
>>pomo
>>really great but pomo
>>high school

>ehhhh

>ehhhh

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

>>9049088
>>>solid greek play
>>>high school
>>>high school
>>>high school Shakespeare
>>>high school Shakes
>>>lame pomo
>>>solid pomo
>>>Joyce's least interesting prose
>>>solid existentialism
>>>actually great
>>>pomo
>>>really great but pomo
>>>high school

>>ehhhh

>>ehhhh

>ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

uuuuuggghhhh

>>9049061
>tfw know what all of these novels are but only read 1984 and half of Brave New World

I've been "discussing" the Great Gatsby for years and I am familiar with the plot and I "get" the novel because I did read some of it but there were parts in the middle I skipped over.

Same for the Stranger, Metamorphosis and like 10 other books.

Also your list is missing F451.

>>9049092
>>>solid greek play
>>>high school
>>>high school
>>>high school Shakespeare
>>>high school Shakes
>>>lame pomo
>>>solid pomo
>>>Joyce's least interesting prose
>>>solid existentialism
>>>actually great
>>>pomo
>>>really great but pomo
>>>high school

>>ehhhh

>>ehhhh

>ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

>uuuuuggghhhh

guhhhhhhgwu

>>9049103
>>>solid greek play
>>>high school
>>>high school
>>>high school Shakespeare
>>>high school Shakes
>>>lame pomo
>>>solid pomo
>>>Joyce's least interesting prose
>>>solid existentialism
>>>actually great
>>>pomo
>>>really great but pomo
>>>high school

>>ehhhh

>>ehhhh

>ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

>uuuuuggghhhh

>guhhhhhhgwu

YEUGH

>>9049071
Cause I haven't read it

>>9049061
>Crying of Lot 49
Why would anyone care about this book outside murica?

>>9049078
Of course they're high school, this is shit you should have read before you even found this board. That's the idea.

>>9049093
Well get to work ya big phony.

Oh and Catcher in the Rye should probably be on that list.

>>9049195
Someday I will. I just don't feel the will to read as much I as used to.

Yes

Its only a few hours long and its a great book. And pretty relevant to contemporary politics atm.

No reason not to read it desu

>>9047799
Unfortunately Huxley is boring as fuck.

>>9045112
yes but you will not find anti trump propaganda in there

>>9049078
Hence why it's "stuff you should have already read" you idiot fuck

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>TFW 1488 ETHICAL VEGANARYANMASTERRACE TOOBEEONNEST

Now DRUMPF has been elected, you HAVE TO read it.

Pretty bad.

>main character has dream sequences that miraculously predict the plot

Honestly considered dropping it once this happened and I don't know if I regret finishing it. It's an interesting idea but with terrible execution.

>>9045112
No. Overrated as fuck

The problem is that you haven't already

>>9050546
ikr