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Upon thinking about the matter a bit more. I would really like to find another book most similar to Brave New World. I enjoy dystopian novels (I guess I am see the glass half empty) with a sci fi aspect. The problem is that I hate using the term sci-fi because it manifests "Trekkies" in my brain...

sci fi I just started reading Animal Farm today. After about 10 pages I realized that the ideas that I really enjoy are the universal ones that all books write about, but in a more futuristic or modern setting. Ender's Game, and Slaughter-House Five are really the style of book that I would...

Good point Ion. I have too short of an attention span. With a song I can listen to 10 seconds of different parts of it and know weather I like it or not. A book takes a few hours. Time to quit whining and start reading.

Ion response to ION... It is actually the classics that I am looking to build my literary background on. The catch is that some classics annoy the hell out of me, while others are finished in a couple days. Any book that has new, often psychadelically deep concepts really inspire me. But, it...

Almost finished reading Slaughterhouse Five and I really like it so far. The only thing that I dislike about it is that most of it is based around war. I like the topics and writing style discussed, but I'm not a fan of books with too much historic war references, especially WWII (2 books and a...

Can you also list their best books with authors please?

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Let me first say that this might be a complicated request, but hopefully some literature experts can help out. I haven't really read much throught my life (21 years) except for the required school books and...