What to read next?

[Dark Muse]

Sometimes I plan my reading in advance, and think about my future reading and so right now I am close to finnishing Day of the Locust, and after that I know I want to read Fathers and Sons, but after that I am between 3 different books.

The books in consideration are:

Howards End

Women in Love

Brave New World

[Veva]

I would go for Women in love, I think it is stunning...

[Scheherazade]

I say, "Go with All the King's Men!"

:D

[Dark Muse]

LOL well I am already reading that one.

[Dr. Hill]

Brave New World is awful, don't read that.

[kelby_lake]

Brave New World was good, actually. A must-read if you've read 1984.

[manolia]

I voted for brave new world..because that's the book i am reading at the moment :) if you choose that eventually and you care to discuss it, let me know :)

[Dr. Hill]

Brave New World was infantile satire, in my opinion. So blatant it insulted me the entire read.

[Jeremiah Jazzz]

Go with the Lawrence.

[Dark Muse]

I think it is always amusing how some books seem to be the love it or hate it, where some poeple will just think it is brilliant and others think it absolutely horrid.

[kelby_lake]

Brave New World was infantile satire, in my opinion. So blatant it insulted me the entire read.

Satire is supposed to be funny, and BNW wasn't really. Anyway, if it was so insulting, why did you finish it?

[Hank Stamper]

Anyway, if it was so insulting, why did you finish it?

:thumbs_up
i have never understood how people can be insulted by literature - but especially when they carry on reading

in any case i would always be more inclined to read something if it had 'insulted' somebody.. altho i am not sure how brave new world could be considered insulting

it is a satire (satire does not necessarily need to be funny) in that it ridicules the utopian fiction of the late 19th/early 20th century (particularly that of HG Wells)

im not sure what exactly is infantile about it? altho im interested to know why Dr Hill thinks it is

[Frizzy_Frog]

1984 is better, but seeing as how Brave New World was written first, it's worth the short time it takes to read.

[dafydd manton]

If you take Brave New World in the context of the time that it was written in, 1931,it is quite advanced, but frankly funnier than the author suspected. Don't forget. he was writing about a time 1220 years in advance, but the world he was in was a wonderfully innocent place, that hadn't been ravaged by WW2, nuclear warfare, space travel and all the other things we take for granted. Yes, it is dated, but look beyond the obvious and it is a good read.

[Virgil]

I would go for Women in love, I think it is stunning...

I agree. :)

[Idril]

I voted for Howard's End just to be different. :D It's a fine book if you're into that Edwardian thing.

[Dark Muse]

I do not mind Edwardian but I do tend to enjoy Forester's work as well

[Virgil]

I voted for Howard's End just to be different. :D It's a fine book if you're into that Edwardian thing.

I agree, that is a fine novel.

[bounty]

Sometimes I plan my reading in advance, and think about my future reading and so right now I am close to finnishing Day of the Locust, and after that I know I want to read Fathers and Sons, but after that I am between 3 different books.

The books in consideration are:

Howards End

Women in Love

Brave New World

hey dark muse---i remember our talking some time ago and my recommending the bounty trilogy to you. have you given those a shot yet? or at least mutiny on the bounty?

that said---my vote is for a brave new world, and then rent "demolition man" with sylvester stallone and sandra bullock. you'll see some neat parallels and inspirations.

[Dr. Hill]

Satire is supposed to be funny, and BNW wasn't really. Anyway, if it was so insulting, why did you finish it?

Had to for class.

[Dr. Hill]

:thumbs_up
i have never understood how people can be insulted by literature - but especially when they carry on reading

in any case i would always be more inclined to read something if it had 'insulted' somebody.. altho i am not sure how brave new world could be considered insulting

it is a satire (satire does not necessarily need to be funny) in that it ridicules the utopian fiction of the late 19th/early 20th century (particularly that of HG Wells)

im not sure what exactly is infantile about it? altho im interested to know why Dr Hill thinks it is
I thought he wrote awfully and pretentiously. The story didn't insult me, his mistrust in the human attention span did.

[Dark Muse]

hey dark muse---i remember our talking some time ago and my recommending the bounty trilogy to you. have you given those a shot yet? or at least mutiny on the bounty?

that said---my vote is for a brave new world, and then rent "demolition man" with sylvester stallone and sandra bullock. you'll see some neat parallels and inspirations.

Hey, I remember that but I have not yet made it around to Bounty, still plan on reading it though.

Haha I remember that movie.

[Phangirl7]

I haven't read or even heard of any of those books, but I would say just pick whichever one you want to read. LIke, really, really, bad want to read.
P.G.7.

[kelby_lake]

Had to for class.

Makes sense. That's why you should read books BEFORE you have to study them.

[bounty]

I haven't read or even heard of any of those books, but I would say just pick whichever one you want to read. LIke, really, really, bad want to read.
P.G.7.

phangirl, if youve read phantom of the opera, seen the musical (or the movie), you might enjoy a contemporary book by frederick forsyth called the phantom in manhatten.


Hey, I remember that but I have not yet made it around to Bounty, still plan on reading it though.

Haha I remember that movie.

smiles...make sure you let me know when you do dark muse...i'll be curious to hear how you like it (or them).

and yeah---im pretty sure the writers for demolition man were inspired by a brave new world. if you liked the movie, then maybe the books a good choice for you.