Post by keyodie on Oct 24, 2008 20:13:28 GMT -5
Sorry Ammy, I just went ahead and made the poll. You weren't online, and November's a week away, so I figured I should get voting started. Let me know if I'm forgetting something. 
Requiem For A Dream by Hubert Selby Jr. - This book is about addiction. Addiction to heroin, addiction to diet pills, addiction to TV, addiction to dieting. It tells the story of 4 characters and their downward spiral as they are more and more consumed by their addiction. The writing style for this book is very different, with a whole bunch of run on sentences and no quotation marks. But I think the way everything just flows into each other without organization makes it feel a bit like a dream, more chaotic, and it is more fitting to the story.
Also, for the no quotations bit, you can differentiate between the characters because they use different slang, and the author spells words differently to show accents and such. It's a bit hard to read at first, but you'll get the hang of it after a while. I did, anyway.
The short novel is an allegory in which animals play the roles of the Bolshevik revolutionaries and overthrow and oust the human owners of the farm, setting it up as a commune in which, at first, all animals are equal; however, class and status disparities soon emerge between the different animal species. The novel describes how a society's ideologies can be manipulated and twisted by those in positions of social and political power, including how a utopian society is made impossible by the corrupting nature of the very power necessary to create it.
It's roughly based on the life of Siddhartha Gautama, or the Buddha. It's about Siddhartha's quest to achieve Nirvana. It's a very interesting book with a lot of thought provoking passages.
Requiem For A Dream by Hubert Selby Jr. - This book is about addiction. Addiction to heroin, addiction to diet pills, addiction to TV, addiction to dieting. It tells the story of 4 characters and their downward spiral as they are more and more consumed by their addiction. The writing style for this book is very different, with a whole bunch of run on sentences and no quotation marks. But I think the way everything just flows into each other without organization makes it feel a bit like a dream, more chaotic, and it is more fitting to the story.
Also, for the no quotations bit, you can differentiate between the characters because they use different slang, and the author spells words differently to show accents and such. It's a bit hard to read at first, but you'll get the hang of it after a while. I did, anyway.
The short novel is an allegory in which animals play the roles of the Bolshevik revolutionaries and overthrow and oust the human owners of the farm, setting it up as a commune in which, at first, all animals are equal; however, class and status disparities soon emerge between the different animal species. The novel describes how a society's ideologies can be manipulated and twisted by those in positions of social and political power, including how a utopian society is made impossible by the corrupting nature of the very power necessary to create it.
It's roughly based on the life of Siddhartha Gautama, or the Buddha. It's about Siddhartha's quest to achieve Nirvana. It's a very interesting book with a lot of thought provoking passages.
