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| On the Beach |
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4 | 17.39% |
| It Can't Happen Here |
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11 | 47.83% |
| The Man in the High Castle |
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3 | 13.04% |
| Rhinoceros |
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5 | 21.74% |
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1) On the Beachquote:On the Beach is a 1957 post-apocalyptic novel written by British-Australian author Nevil Shute after he emigrated to Australia. The novel details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them from the Northern Hemisphere following a nuclear war a year previously. As the radiation approaches, each person deals with impending death differently.[2][3] 2) It Can't Happen Here quote:It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical 1935 political novel by American author Sinclair Lewis, and a 1936 play adapted from the novel by Lewis and John C. Moffitt. Published during the rise of fascism in Europe, the novel describes the rise of Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, a Democrat and United States Senator who is elected to the presidency after fomenting fear and promising drastic economic and social reforms while promoting a return to patriotism and "traditional" values. After his election, Windrip takes complete control of the government and imposes a plutocratic/totalitarian rule with the help of a ruthless paramilitary force, in the manner of Adolf Hitler and the SS. The novel's plot centers on journalist Doremus Jessup's opposition to the new regime and his subsequent struggle against it as part of a liberal rebellion. Reviewers at the time, and literary critics ever since, have emphasized the connection with Louisiana politician Huey Long,[1] who was preparing to run for president in the 1936 election when he was assassinated in 1935 just prior to the novel's publication. 3) The Man in the High Castle quote:The Man in the High Castle (1963) is an alternative history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. Set in 1962, fifteen years after an alternative ending to World War II, the novel concerns intrigues between the victorious Axis Powers—Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany—as they rule over the former United States, as well as daily life under the resulting totalitarian rule. The Man in the High Castle won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1963. 4) "Rhinoceros" by Eugene Ionesco quote:Rhinoceros (French original title Rhinocéros) is a play by Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959. The play was included in Martin Esslin's study of post-war avant garde drama, "The Theatre of the Absurd", although scholars have also rejected this label as too interpretatively narrow. Over the course of three acts, the inhabitants of a small, provincial French town turn into rhinoceroses; ultimately the only human who does not succumb to this mass metamorphosis is the central character, Bérenger, a flustered everyman figure who is initially criticized in the play for his drinking, tardiness, and slovenly lifestyle and then, later, for his increasing paranoia and obsession with the rhinoceroses. The play is often read as a response and criticism to the sudden upsurge of Communism, Fascism, and Nazism during the events preceding World War II, and explores the themes of conformity, culture, mass movements, mob mentality, philosophy and morality. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Nov 30, 2016 |
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http://boingboing.net/2016/11/30/free-e-copy-of-sinclair-lewis.html
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Nov 30, 2016 18:16
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Keeping it positive I see
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Nov 30, 2016 18:22
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i'm also unhappy that trump won
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Should have included Slapstick imo, although the president in that post apocalyptic world is nicer than Trump.
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Dec 1, 2016 19:45
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I wish "A Plot Against America" had the "It Can't Happen Here" ending. Somehow a Roosevelt return to power and everything was well doesn't sync up with how the novel progressed from the beginning.
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Dec 2, 2016 02:00
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Dec 2, 2016 13:46
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Gonna throw in my vote for PKD because I love that crazy man and more people need to read him.
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Dec 2, 2016 20:29
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Keeping it positive I see  Looks like it's going to be It Can't Happen Here which is probably the best choice even though I was pulling for Rhinoceros since we've never done a play I'll get a thread up soonish.
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