• pdxfed@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    1984/farenheit 451/Brave New World are the adolescent trilogy for me that anyone who wants to understand the nature of people and mechanics of power would do well to read.

    I’d add Animal Farm to that as well.

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      4 days ago

      It’s good to add the other two too but I never could read brave new world, I struggled page by page and gave up. Can not name a specific reason other than I could not get into it.

      From a story perspective it should be perfect for me.

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        4 days ago

        Aldos Huxley is not a great writer. I think he had a better understanding of humanity than Orwell… Or at least, I feel like his books are more insightful, but he is not as good of a writer.

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          3 days ago

          One of the few times reading a translated book is better tgan the original, I read it in Spanish and I guess the translator made it more tolerable because I’m not much of a reader at all (I’ve read at most five books on my own, less if we don’t count unfinished)