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Dec 17 2010 04:56am
Recommendations maybe. So far I've loved 1984, Fahrenheit 451 and Clockwork Orange. Brave new world was good too. Catch-22 still waiting in shelf.

+ I've been thinking of ordering;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_%28novel%29
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Dec 17 2010 11:55am
You should definitely read We. It is a tremendous book and the precursor to both Brave New World and 1984. Catch-22 is also amazing, but not so much of a dystopia book as a satire on the absurdity of war. If you like Catch-22, I'd recommend any of Victor Pelevin's books (Life of Insects and Oman Ra are my favorites). He's a modern Russian satirist in the vein of Heller.
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Feb 20 2011 09:47pm
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You should definitely read We.  It is a tremendous book and the precursor to both Brave New World and 1984.  Catch-22 is also amazing, but not so much of a dystopia book as a satire on the absurdity of war.  If you like Catch-22, I'd recommend any of Victor Pelevin's books (Life of Insects and Oman Ra are my favorites).  He's a modern Russian satirist in the vein of Heller.


I'll try to get some of Victor Pelevin, thanks, haven't heard of him before.
More suggestions are welcome.
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Feb 20 2011 10:10pm
Along the lines of Pelevin, I should have mentioned Bulgakov. Master and Margarita is one of the best satires of the 20th century. Koestler's Darkness at Noon is a great novel about being hauled off by the KGB during the purges. Death on the Installment Plan by Celine is also tremendous--about the breakdown of traditional French society (it's much more interesting, gritty, and funny--in a black humor vein--than that sounds). Naked Lunch and Cities of the Red Night by Burroughs are also worth a read, but they are a bit extreme.
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