I recently bought the book "1984", what other similar works do you recommend? I already have "a brave new world" and I want another book of this dystopian future stuff
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>>25335446society of the spectacle - debord
>>25335446first of all read stuff like Animal farm, Fahrenheit 451' Clockwork Orange, The Giver, The Iron Heel, second of all we don't like in 1984, we live in a dystopian shithole which is a combination of several dystopias nightmare, from 1984+Brave new world+animal farm+ Idiocracy+Cyberpunk etc, you have mass surveillance, crap that pollutes the internet, tv and your mind, the rewriting of history, some animals are more equal than others (billionaires and those in power), inequality, humanity's IQ decreasing and stupidity spreading, eternal wars, doublethink, etc.Overall there was an image of that like pic related but 5 times worse but i can't find it
>>25335446Thomas Paine's Common Sense
>>25335610Fahrenheit 451 was written so poorly I had to stop reading after like 10 pages. That nigger fucking sucks at writing
>>25335624I love it, it's more about portraying emotion than it is about describing detail. Everybody being addicted to mass media is also a more relevant theme than authoritarianism. I still cannot cope with the lines:>Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of "facts" they feel stuffed, but absolutely "brilliant" with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change.Because I recognize it's exactly what I do, watch tons of "interesting" videos on youtube, learning knowledge that is ultimately useless, yet I can't seem to draw myself away from doing that.
>>25335624this, except i finished it because my retard control freak classmate at the time loved it lmao
>>25335948How did you get through the incessant purple prose that just does not land because it describes nothing?>>25336005I wish I could have finished it just to say I did and be able to talk more about how it sucks but jesus christ I have no idea why it's not in the dustbin of history it's that bad
>>25336043normies will forgive the most dogshit tropes/prose/characters as long as there is le deep message they can infer from the core premise and conclusion
>>25335446That Hideous StrengthBall and Cross
>>25335446Fahrenheit 451 - I read it and liked it, but I found Brave New World the better of the threeWe by Yevgeny Zamyatin is the closest you'll get to 1984 also, The Camp of the Saints is related and I heard it's goodUnderground Man, from what I've heard, would be more about (you), and it is semi-realated tooThe Memory Police and Snow Crash are semi related books I've been meaning to read that I'd also recommend
>>25335446>I want another book of this dystopian future stuffIt's on old trope, but I really enjoyed how Simons depicted a world where humans coexisted with and where dependent on borderline omniscient AIs. Mind you, I've read this before ChatGPT was a thing, so when drawing parallels between the book and real life I mostly related it to how every service you use harvests your data for advertisement, and opting out is borderline impossible unless you want to become a hermit in the forest. I assume it's even more relevant now.Also on the recommendation of a friend I've only read the first two books, and I didn't regret it. I liked the ending and I don't need a continuation or an explanation for any of the things that were left ambiguous.
>>25335446Gravity's Rainbow
>>25335446Anthem, by Ayn Rand
>>25335446brave new world. the only way they'd make a movie about it now is if they give it the animal farm treatment or omit the trip in the book to the reservation. even the tv show they did a few years back basically glamorized the society and had to make it about class struggle.
>>25335446Why do you need recommendations? You said you have brave new world, read that.
>>25335446>1984 is literally the presentno it was literally 1948, things are much worse now
