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Type: fiction

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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."...

2006-02-07

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Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Tags: fiction classic philosophy wishlist

2005-12-06

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Author: Neil Gaiman

Tags: fantasy american scifi culture weird wishlist

2005-12-06

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Type: fiction

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Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Tags: classic crime detective holmes

2005-12-04

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Authors: Mark Winegardner Mario Puzo

Tags: classic mafia crime

2005-12-04