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/lit/, here's my 'to read' list:

A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Brave New World
The Picture of Dorian Gray

What should I start with? I'm leaning towards 'A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'.

>> No.577561

That one is the best out of those in my opinion. Go for it.

>> No.577581

Brave New World is only anecdotally related to life in our society.

Read the SparkNotes, skip the book.

(Before people get pissed off, I meant that BNW is superior to 1984 only in that its vision of the future was ultimately more correct. It otherwise lacks the urgency and bite of Orwell.)

>> No.577613

>>577581
>Read the SparkNotes, skip the book.
Dumb faggot.
>Before people get pissed off..
To late asshole.

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>>577613

>> No.577629

Does it matter what you start with? If it does:
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Brave New World

>> No.577632

DO IT FUCKER

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>>577613

Huxley's got better work available. I'd read Island instead of Brave New World if OP is absolutely set on experiencing his writing.

>> No.577648

The moral of the story in "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" is to not ask people for cigarette butts.