I'm teaching a course now where No One of the fifteen students has read 1984. I feel like this is an omission in their education. I said they should read it as soon as possible. Curious as to whether they will actually do so.
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Idiocracy. Didn't know that movie! But it looks really good. Will put it on my to-watch list ;-)
Your mother may have a point in that developments in thoswe two books have either come true or become obsolete, but still I find it enlightening to read how the authors were able to imagine a world that was so alien at that time and yet so frighteningly real. Plus, these books may have influenced the course of history in a good way, making them self-defeating prophesies...
Idiocracy. Didn't know that movie! But it looks really good. Will put it on my to-watch list ;-)
Your mother may have a point in that developments in thoswe two books have either come true or become obsolete, but still I find it enlightening to read how the authors were able to imagine a world that was so alien at that time and yet so frighteningly real. Plus, these books may have influenced the course of history in a good way, making them self-defeating prophesies...
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I'll recommend both books. I agree that Brave New World is closer to today's reality (although luckily the lives most or us lead are much better and happier than that of the people in that book). I was thinking about dystopies and realized that I could also show them an episode of Black Mirror. Might be closer to their current media consumption anyway.
I'll recommend both books. I agree that Brave New World is closer to today's reality (although luckily the lives most or us lead are much better and happier than that of the people in that book). I was thinking about dystopies and realized that I could also show them an episode of Black Mirror. Might be closer to their current media consumption anyway.
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Mastalab!
Mastalab!
Tolstoy died on this day in 1910, after devoting the final years of his life to this "Calendar of Wisdom" - see Brainpickings (and if you didn't know this website by the great Maria Popova yet, do bookmark it - it's great!) https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/03/15/a-calendar-of-wisdom-tolstoy/
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So there is a #mastobookclub now... They're looking for recommendations on a book to begin with. Genre: Fantasy. I recommended Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt. I've been wanting to read it for a while now, so it would be great to do that in company of some other Mastonauts.
I'd like to recommend Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt. It has been on my 'to read' list for a while already. The young Dutch writer has received praise from the likes of Stephen King and George R.R. Martin for this Fantasy/Thriller that was translated into English recently.
Many different ways of translating Russian names into Dutch... Chechov becomes Tsjechow, Tsjechof or Tsjechov.
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