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Needing a recommendation on what the fuck to read.
Something similar to The Giver, Fahrenheit 451, 1984, etc. Love those kind of books. Fahrenheit 451 is actually my favorite book at the moment. See if you can change that.

>> No.1385027

Yevgeny Zamyatin's We.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley if you haven't yet.

>> No.1385051

Read "Goethe" by Faust.

>> No.1385054

>>1385027

This

(sorry to the guy above me, never read Goethe)

Check out The Captive Mind as well.

>> No.1385109

>>1385027
Brave New World is a good one. Haven't read the other one though.

>> No.1385118

>>1385051
lol

>> No.1385141

May I suggest Player Piano, by Kurt Vonnegut?

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1385170

more of a kid's book, but I read it in high school on the recommendation of a non-reading friend and enjoyed it. The movie gives off a different...feeling...not as good (still kind of fun to watch though) so if you're gonna watch it, I'd do it after you read the book.

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>>1385170
oh I guess it would help to give a description, huh

>It is always night in the city of Ember. But there is no moon, no stars. The only light during the regular twelve hours of "day" comes from floodlamps that cast a yellowish glow over the streets of the city. Beyond are the pitch-black Unknown Regions, which no one has ever explored because an understanding of fire and electricity has been lost, and with it the idea of a Moveable Light. "Besides," they tell each other, "there is nowhere but here" Among the many other things the people of Ember have forgotten is their past and a direction for their future. For 250 years they have lived pleasantly, because there has been plenty of everything in the vast storerooms. But now there are more and more empty shelves--and more and more times when the lights flicker and go out, leaving them in terrifying blackness for long minutes. What will happen when the generator finally fails?