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    OK, be honest.

    How many read Brave New World because of Iron Maiden?

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    *blinks*

    Not BNW but I read Pollyanna because of them...

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    Sorry, I don't get the connection. I read Brave New World because I thought it would be an interesting story.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kathycf View Post
    Sorry, I don't get the connection. I read Brave New World because I thought it would be an interesting story.
    Iron Maiden put out an album called Brave New World and the title track was based on the book. Iron Maiden does a lot of that. That have songs based on Brave New Worl, Dune, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Stranger in a Strange Land,Ryme of the Ancient Mariner, etc. For all the people that say that hevay metal is mindless noise listened to by slackers, heavy metal has exposed me to a lot of literature and history.

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    I read BNW because my senior year English teacher recommended it to me.
    Don't like Iron Maiden at all.. lol
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    I love Maiden, and yes they are the ones who got me into literature.

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    Well, I read Brave New World because it was recommmend in the interoduction to 1984 for.
    But no, I won't lie...I also listened to the Iron Maiden song (which was excellent) and that made me want to read it even more.


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    You are correct though, plenty of these metal bands are highly literate people. I listen to a great deal of metal and you can hear it in the subject matter of the songs. A perfect example is "Silver Shoes" by Demons and Wizards, a song baout the Wizard of Oz, note they say Silver Shoes, not Ruby Slippers.
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    Eh...I don't like metal.

    I read BNW because to an eleven year old, the futuristic social structure was fascinating. And it also came highly recommended from various parental sources.
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    I read BNW long before the members of Iron Maiden were even born.

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    I read Brave New World in 1959. Mick Jagger was 16 years old. Where was Iron Who? Were they after Jerry Roll Morton & the Red Hot Peppers & Telonious Monk?
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    I red Brave New World three times, i liked it so much and i don't care about Iron Maiden sorry U.U too much noise

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    Is there a book called 'Bring your daughter to the slaughter'?
    According to Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence once said that Balzac was 'a gigantic dwarf', and in a sense the same is true of Dickens.
    Charles Dickens, by George Orwell

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    Quote Originally Posted by kev67 View Post
    Is there a book called 'Bring your daughter to the slaughter'?

    O.O sorry, i can't help you..i have never heard a book called like that

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