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2279712 No.2279712 [Reply] [Original]

just read 1984, brave new world, and animal farm.

moar?

>> No.2279719

homage to catalonia

>> No.2279733

atlas shrugged

>> No.2279744

>>2279733

Anthem is more along the dystopian lines if you want to do Ayn Rand.

Also, Zamyatin: We

>> No.2279745

the road.

get a taste of REAL dystopia.

>> No.2279749

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_literature

>> No.2279755

>>2279745

I thought that book was mediocre at best. A 'literature' writer (ie loved by NY Review of Books, NY Times, etc) writing a post-apocalyptic book. Except that genre work (sci-fi/fantasy genre mostly) has already had a bunch of post-apocalyptic work, and much of it was better than what was in McCarthy's The Road, which was really derivative of those other books, but since McCarthy is a big name, he gets all the praise.

I suppose other people like it, but it did nothing for me.

>> No.2279774

>>2279755

I often wonder at the kind of people who get down on their knees, and suck that books cock. I do like Mccarthy as an author though...

>> No.2279787

>>2279755
"The Road" really is a mediocre and sad little sliver of a book. It is pitiful that McCarthy had to break up the text with huge gaps to fill pages and pander to a lazy readership.

I'm thoroughly convinced the Pulitzer was given to this forgettable, slim snoozer as a mere nod to McCarthy's past works. It happened before with Edward Albee--the Pulitzer committee snubbed "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and awarded Albee the prize next year for his mediocre effort "Seascape."

>> No.2279792

juding by what you've read i'd say .. just ask your high school teacher for next years syllabus

>> No.2279802

ITT: People think "The Road" is primarily about the end of the world.

>> No.2279816

>>2279802

>Implying that genre post-apocalyptic works don't use their setting to talk about other issues in the same or similar ways McCarthy's literary post-apocalyptic work does.

>> No.2279833

>>2279816
Which ones? About what?
inb4 environmentalism

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2279837

>>2279755
>>2279774
>>2279787

Stop.

>> No.2279840

>>2279833

Fragility of society, quickness of social breakdown, how people respond to a crisis in which meaning is hard/impossible to find, what it means to go on when death is unavoidable, family relationships, etc.

It exposed literary critics to a setting that they ordinarily wouldn't see because they are too good to read genre work. But there was nothing that great, and certainly nothing groundbreaking or particularly unique, about The Road.

I do like other McCarthy books, though.

>> No.2279842

>>2279840
>It exposed literary critics to a setting that they ordinarily wouldn't see because they are too good to read genre work
>too good to read genre work
Oh please.

>> No.2279845

>>2279840
Yeah, but which ones?

>> No.2279847

>>2279842

You don't think that NY Review of Books critics don't look down their noses @ the sci-fi section? Granted, a bunch of genre work is trash. Not all of it, though.

>> No.2279851

>>2279847
Not what I meant.