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Reading V for Vendetta and Nineteen Eighty Four makes you horny? o_O

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"1984" makes me horney... all that sexual suppression and "V for Vendetta" has Alan Moore's trademark "Gore and Sex"... so...

It's weird I know... hence the "offbeat" icon.

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I feel so cheated right now. :p

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I don' think its that weird really. I thought it might be the sexual repression in 1984 that did it for you - plus the whole "death, world going to shit" making you want to create/experience life kinda deal. 1984 freaked me out so much that when I finished reading it I put my doona over my head and sat there for 10 minutes rocking bakc and forth and stopping myself from burning my possessions/going mad e.t.c. I didn't pick the most stable and happy time of my life to read it though!

I'd like to read it again sometime, may pick it fro my book club :D. Though I'm thinking of suggesting V or Brave New World, as BNW didn't freak me out as much as 1984 even though its probably the more likely of the two to come true.

And I hated the art of V for Vendetta though I enjoyed both the graphic novel and film.

ps. much weirder things have made me horny ;)

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Have you read "Alas, Babylon"? It's not quite as bleak or dystopic as V for Vendetta or 1984 but still freaked me out a bit in the beginning.

Having a good sleep, by the way?

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Why?

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"1984" made me cry... at the end, I was just sobbing, I felt so bad for Winston.

I didn't like BNW, I feel it's a bit dates, while "1984" the only anachronistic thing about it the title and dates within, I could imagine it happening at any time.

A really good dystopic book is "A handmaid's tale" Margaret Atwood.

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ps. much weirder things have made me horny ;)

Ditto, ;)

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Who's it by?

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I still haven't read Alas Babylon but you've mentioned quite a few times and I have made a mental note to read it. When I have finally paid of my library fines I will get it out and let you know what i think :).

Lol, great sleep can't you tell? Its so vivid I almost feel as if I am still awake and posting on lj ;).

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Oooh I read The Handmaid's Tale last year, such a great book! So sad though :(. I really want to read some of her other books now, but I've only seen ones about murderesses and the like about.

And I agree, BNW did feel dated, 1984 felt much more like reality :/.

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'cause we watched it together last year in Philadelphia. Just a lame joke. :)

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What time is it in Oz?

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Oryx and Crake[sp?] is excellent!

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4:58am according to my computers clock :S

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You're still my guy :)

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Pat Frank. It was written in 1959 and was one of the first apocalyptic novels of the nuclear era.

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"1984" didn't move me at all. I liked "Brave New World", though, until it turned too Christian in the end and I went "Ugh".

(BNW is actually believable - it was written what, a hundred years ago? And it doesn't show the wear. "1984" - well - to me it's a world not even made of cardboard, but of smoke. And not in a good way.)

Then again, I read "1984" shortly after reading "Atlas Shrugged", so it didn't really stand a chance.

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Thanks, that is the one I have had recommended most outside of The Handmaid's Tale, I must get it from the library as well. I miss being able to go in there and sift through the shelves for piles of books. Damn fines!

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BNW was written in the fifties, after "1984"

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Aw. That seriously gave me the warm fuzzies.

I'm such a dork.

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Groovy. I can't wait to hear your take.

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hagar-972.livejournal.com

Actualy, 1932 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World). "1984" was published in 1949 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four). Huxley wins ;).

And, seriously. The world of BNW works. The science of it works. It's a biology-centred text from the 1930s and the only thing there that bugged me was the production lines being manual and not automatic.

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