RE: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
August 19, 2012 at 8:55 am
(This post was last modified: August 19, 2012 at 8:55 am by Faith No More.)
I actually found a first edition copy of "1984" at my grandmother's house and took it home, but when my dad saw it on my bookshelf, he claimed that my grandmother had given him all of her books and took it. I will get it back eventually, though.
As others have said, "Heart of Darkness" is absolutely brilliant. In fact, it may very well be my favorite book. If you've ever seen the movie "Apocolypse Now," it is simply a retelling of "Heart of Darkness" in the Vietnam War instead of the British conquests of the Congo in the 19th century.
Other books I've really enjoyed are:
"A Scanner Darkly" by Phillip K. Dick
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey
"A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess
As others have said, "Heart of Darkness" is absolutely brilliant. In fact, it may very well be my favorite book. If you've ever seen the movie "Apocolypse Now," it is simply a retelling of "Heart of Darkness" in the Vietnam War instead of the British conquests of the Congo in the 19th century.
Other books I've really enjoyed are:
"A Scanner Darkly" by Phillip K. Dick
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey
"A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
