what do these 3 books talk about ?

Question

if you read one or all of these books plz tell me what do they talk about and what do you think of it ?
and i promise i'll read'em right away ;) thnX 4 ur help !
The Great Book of Amber
A tale of two cities
1984

Answer 1

Uh-huh, your promise isn't worth diddly, kid. READ them YOURSELF and I PROMISE you will find out the answers to your questions.

Answer 2

Tale of 2 Cities, by Dickens (I think) is set in Paris during the French Revolution. They've made movies of it. Its beginning and ending are so well known even folks like me, who haven't read the whole thing, know them. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...." and at the end, when the hero gives his life for his love, "it is a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done...." It's revolution, trying to flee from the chaos, trying to live through the whole mess. It's innocent heads on the chopping block, loyalty and betrayal, all the good drama of real life.

1984 is Orwell's classic about totalitarianism, about just how horribly controlling a government can get, about how it can control what you think and believe, how it can use what you love to destroy and enslave you.

If the Amber book is by Roger Zelazny, then it's about a fantasy world in which certain people, the princes of Amber, can walk from one parallel universe to another, and about all the intrigue and power struggle that's possible with that kind of power. Lurking in the back of the mind of every reader is the thought, "maybe I can do that, too."

Answer 3

you havent read 1984 yet? You HAVE to! While you do you will be shocked at the similarities between our current governments goals and actions and those in the novel.

In 1984 the main Character lives in a society that is completely controlled by the government. There is no privacy. Even THINKING something illegal ("Thought crime") can get you arrested. The government uses propaganda to control what people feel, think and believe. For example, there are two other countries. The government has been at war with one or the other of these countries "forever". The question is which one. IT changes, but they always insist it has ALWAYS been this country, never the other.

Books and papers and newspapers are edited to remove and ideas that the government doesn't want you to have. One way they help control this is through a new mandated language "Doublespeak". It limits the words in the vocabulary, which helps control how you think. Other things change too. Suppose last year you were a government hero. Everyone loved you. THIS year however you pissed someone off and wound up being carted off out of sight. You'd think the records of what you have done in the past would help wouldn't you? No. Why? They don't exist. EVERYTHING that had your name in it is GONE! You never existed.

Well our main character begins to secretly rebel. He even gets help from other people, although helping him does risk THEIR lives too. I don't want to say TOO much because the ending is amazing.

I wasn't expecting to like the book but my husband made me PROMISE to read it when we were first dating. It is one of the greatest books in recent times. It's also one you will find MANY references to in literature, our culture, the news... etc.

Answer 4

i know that a tale of two cites is about the french revolution and the city of lundon and the city of paris, overthrowing the king in paris, killing of the nobility on the guillotine(the sharp head-cutting-off thing that they used to behead people). charles dickens, 1793-1795(time set)
1984 is about what he thinks the future will be like, he wrote it in 1948(48, 84 ;) ) its about a totalitarian state in which there is no individual privacy because the govt knows what everyone is doing at every piont in the day. the state is ruled by big brother, . . . it's also a love story.

Answer 5

These are good books. I particularly like A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens is a favorite author of mine), and 1984 is a classic, too. Read them yourself and find out!

Answer 6

The Great Book of Amber:

Roger Zelazny's books have three things in common: a flawed hero who sometimes fails, endlessly surprising plot twists, and a blend of lyricism, literary allusions, and sly puns that makes the pages fly. The Great Book of Amber, collecting all 10 Amber novels, is vintage Zelazny. Despite some irritating typographical errors, it's invaluable for anyone who wants to read or reread the tales of Corwin and his son, Merlin.
Corwin is a prince of Amber, the "immortal city from which every other city has taken its shape." All other worlds, including Earth, are shadows of that reality. Corwin has spent centuries on Earth as an amnesiac. But when someone in the family tries to kill him there, Corwin begins a search for his past. He quickly learns that his family has some very unusual powers. They can travel between Amber, its shadows, and Chaos by manipulating reality; use magical playing cards to communicate and travel instantaneously; and are able to walk the Pattern that created Amber. Corwin regains his memory, solves the mystery of his father Oberon's disappearance, and fulfills his destiny--only to disappear into Chaos.

Merlin searches for Corwin and his destiny as a son of both Amber and the Courts of Chaos. His story parallels Corwin's, answering many questions about Amber, Chaos, and the next generation in the family.


A Tale of Two Cities

First published in 1859, A Tale of Two Cities is one of Dickens's most famous and popular novels. This stirring tale, set in the late eighteenth century against the backdrop of the French Revolution, is a novel for all generations. Filled with adventure and love, revolution and terror, it transports the reader to a time of political upheaval and solutions by guillotine.


1984

The year is 1984; the scene is London, largest population center of Airstrip One.

Airstrip One is part of the vast political entity Oceania, which is eternally at war with one of two other vast entities, Eurasia and Eastasia. At any moment, depending upon current alignments, all existing records show either that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia and allied with Eastasia, or that it has always been at war with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia. Winston Smith knows this, because his work at the Ministry of Truth involves the constant "correction" of such records. "'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'"

In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. He knows the Party's official image of the world is a fluid fiction. He knows the Party controls the people by feeding them lies and narrowing their imaginations through a process of bewilderment and brutalization that alienates each individual from his fellows and deprives him of every liberating human pursuit from reasoned inquiry to sexual passion. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.


That being said, you SHOULD read them for yourself - at least A Tale of Two Cities and 1984. They are masterpieces, and you might learn something. Something like...do your own homework.

Answer 7

Okay you should read 1984.
I started tale of two cities read that first page a million times.. " it was the best of times it was the worst of times...." that pretty much sums it up.I never finished it.

Answer 8

Albert Schweitzer:
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Answer 9

kittyrogers is right!

Answer 10

nothing at all.............


book dont have mouths,,,,, and cant talk.