Scratch

--mega dystopia fan approaching--

Do you like reading stories about dystopian societies? YUS

What dystopian books have you read?

Animal Farm
House Of The Scorpion
The Giver
Fire-us series (Sucked. Don't read.)
Uglies series
The Hunger Games series
1984
Something by Arthur C. Clark. The one where all the kids under the age of nine go weird. IDR the name.
Peeps series by Scott Westerfeld
Feed

Which are your favorites?
Uglies series and The Hunger Games.


Least favorites?

Fire-us. It was really stupid IMO. (And the name!) It looks like Fire Us but it's really about a world where a virus called the fire-us killed off all the adults. So cliche.

And I REALLY WANT to read Brave New World.

Last edited by Dinoclor (2012-05-25 20:14:04)

I love 1984 and the Hunger Games. George Orwell also wrote "Animal Farm", which was an AWESOME dystopian book, which got me hooked even though it was for school. I am currently doing "The Lord of the Flies", which is another good dystopian novel. I finished it in 3 hours.

Lord of the Flies was so boring

I love dystopian futures, but i cant seem to thing of anything other than a one world govt and people trying to overthrow it.

The Hunger Games was way too predictable and didn't focus enough on the dystopia.

It was more like "KISSING AND KILLING YAYAYAY MORE KISSING MORE KILLING WHICH ONE SHOULD I CHOOSE (oh btw this is a dystopia"

The giver. But as we think of that as a bad society, that community has never met the real world.

Mokat wrote:

The Hunger Games, The Giver and The City of Ember. I love Dystopian books because they all have a moral-- the same moral-- we should all get along and take care of the world so it doesn't turn into a horrible place.

Actually i prefer it to turn into a bad place so we can overthrow and punish the government or organization that caused it.

does anyone know of a dystopian book that does not involve battling a corrupt organozation or gov't?

banana500 wrote:

C'mon--I already made a topic for this!

Oops! I'm sorry. Funny that we had the same idea within about a day of each other. Uh... I suppose they do involve slightly different discussions-- yours involves the best "classic" dystopias, while mine involves dystopias in general, include popular fiction. So, could we consider them two different topics?

Anyway, for now I'll continue the discussion.

Mokat wrote:

The Hunger Games, The Giver and The City of Ember. I love Dystopian books because they all have a moral-- the same moral-- we should all get along and take care of the world so it doesn't turn into a horrible place.

I've always interpreted the moral slightly differently-- I find that dystopian novels often warn against complacency in the face of injustice and tend to urge us to examine our own beliefs and practices so our society does not turn into a dystopia itself. Of course, I think most also involve the morals you wrote about, but I never quite thought of it that way. 

Last edited by scmb1 (2012-05-25 23:38:31)

banana500 wrote:

By the way, why do people consider Lord of the Flies to be dystopian? It's more allegorical to me. Same thing with Animal Farm, too.

Yes, I agree-- I always considered both of those to be more allegorical than dystopian, but I suppose they can be both.  Both do include repressive, controlled societies. And, according to a quick Google search, many experts consider them to be dystopian. I just never thought of them like that until this discussion.

I came up with a dystopian story that does not involve the overthrow of the gov't 

Garr8 wrote:

does anyone know of a dystopian book that does not involve battling a corrupt organozation or gov't?

The City of Ember. It's about people who live in an underground city but the generator that powers the underground city is about to stop working. Then a girl finds instructions for egress and leads the whole city aboveground.