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  & 56 users

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Jeffrey Eugenides

2006-07-03

  & 188 users

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Type: fiction

Status: finished

Author: Aldous Huxley

Description: ""Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian""Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today--let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren't yet to come."...

2006-06-10

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Type: fiction

Status: now reading

Author: Philip K. Dick

Description: Now you can experience being on drugs without actually doing drugs, rbecause Phillip K DickNow you can experience being on drugs without actually doing drugs, rbecause Phillip K Dick did them for you. Very good book...

2006-06-10

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Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: Thomas Hardy

Tags: birtish

2005-12-17

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Type: fiction

Status: favorite

Author: John Hodgman

Tags: history parody

2005-11-29

  & 81 users

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Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: Kurt Vonnegut

Description: "Cat's Cradle, one of Vonnegut's most entertaining novels, is filled with scientists"Cat's Cradle, one of Vonnegut's most entertaining novels, is filled with scientists and G-men and even ordinary folks caught up in the game. These assorted characters chase each other around in search of the world's most important and dangerous substance, a new form of ice that freezes at room temperature. At one time, this novel could probably be found on the bookshelf of every college kid in America; it's still a fabulous read and a great place to start if you're young enough to have missed the first Vonnegut craze."...

2005-10-05

  & 97 users

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Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: Neil Gaiman

2005-10-05

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Type: fiction

Status: to read

Authors: Warren Ellis Darick Robertson

Tags: scifi political journalism gonzo comic

2005-10-05

  & 1 users

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Authors: Warren Ellis Darick Robertson

Tags: scifi political journalism gonzo

2005-10-05

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Authors: Warren Ellis Darick Robertson

Tags: scifi political journalism gonzo

2005-10-05