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The Big Brother Reading List
Books about a world where everyone is watched:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_new_world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag_Archipelago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkness_at_noon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farenheit_451
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Jest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_of_Men
- QuantumGuy 13y agoSomeone should whip up a quick website listing all these books. I would do it myself but I have neither the money or knowledge to do so. I will be reading all the books listed in this thread post haste.
- jenkinsj 13y agoCould anyone suggest an additional title?
- pattisapu 13y agoThomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow Proverbs for Paranoids: 1. You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures. 2. The innocence of the creatures is in inverse proportion to the immorality of the Master. 3. If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. 4. You hide, they seek. 5. Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations. -- Collected from Gravity's Rainbow, V237, 241, 251, 262, & 292
- EthanHeilman 13y agoI would add some non-fiction books: 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Puzzle_Palace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Puzzle_Palace 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_Factory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_Factory In the short story category: 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_a_Little_Help http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_a_Little_Help
- jenkinsj 13y agoIt's cool that the Puzzle Palace was popular within the NSA itself.
- revorad 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial
- jenkinsj 13y agoHow could I forget Kafka! Good save.
- jdavid 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_(novel) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_(novel) written by the same author as 'Brave New World', Aldous Huxley, the book details more of a Carrot approach to big brother.
- jdavid 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Brother_(Cory_Doctorow_novel) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Brother_(Cory_Doctorow_n...
- xauronx 13y agoI'm so glad that We is on there. Very few people I've ever met have read it but it's one of my all time favorites.