Required reading

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newrubylane · 18/06/2020 14:53

Following on from the 1984 thread. I have noted a couple of other books were mentioned on there, which I plan to read. Does anyone have any other good recommendations on the topic - books or blogs etc?

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chipperfish · 18/06/2020 22:37

Connie Willis- some of her short, funny and well observed stories are very on point at the moment, particularly 'Ado' when you think about current speech and purity policing and 'Even the Queen' on biology and menstruation.

Plus The Doomsday book is very Corona topical

BolloxtoGender · 18/06/2020 22:19

Wild Swans

Gives an insight to how a whole country is brainwashed during the Cultural Revolution. Lots of Parallels and similarities with the woke mob rule dynamics, whipping up resentment, and attacking people in the name of the righteous cause. Label someone as a ‘capitalist’, publically denounce, letters of confessions, the Little Red Guards, Book of Mao s thoughts...and extended twisted interpretations of these, destroying traditions and anything ‘ OLD’ that represented the old order....The irony is that we are so arrogant, we think these sorts of things only happen to other people. But to me, the divisive identity politics is just like the Cultural Revolution.

20mum · 18/06/2020 19:42

Invisible women

Ninkanink · 18/06/2020 15:54

*Jacobson!

Ninkanink · 18/06/2020 15:53

J by Howard Jacobsen.

Deliriumoftheendless · 18/06/2020 15:42

Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy.

It’s not like 1984 but it’s a very interesting read. I read it in the late 90s and felt some of the dystopia bits were very near the knuckle.

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