I'm going crazy. I need a book to read! My favorite book is A Clockwork Orange and nothing has ever come close to beating that. Second favoirte is Slaughterhouse 5. What book should I read? Are there any books remotely similar to these two? I really like it when a book makes you think for weeks, you take a lot from it instead of it just being a quick meaningless action romp.
2007-12-09 08:36:54 · 10 answers · asked by Jstevens 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Congratulations on choosing a very fine set of books as your favorites. Excellent chooses. I highly recommend Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre. It is very similar to Clockwork Orange in that it is about a young man's troubles with the legal system done in a statistic way. It won the Booker Man Award. It is an excellently written book with magnificent prose. You will enjoy it very much.
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2007-12-09 08:44:52 · answer #1 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you might like Marge Piercy. She reads a lot like Margaret Atwood and her books are really interesting. My favorite dystopian one is "He, She and It". The nice thing about her writing is that although it does have sci-fi elements, her writing doesn't really read like sci-fi. I've loaned her books to people who aren't sci-fi readers at all and they've enjoyed them very much. I haven't read it in a looong time but the dystopian/futuristic novel she's most known for is called "woman on the edge of time" and that might be a good place to start. If you liked Handmaid's Tale, also read Margaret Atwood's more recent book "Oryx and Crake." Also, some very good YA novels are dystopian. Try "The Giver" by Lois Lowry and "This Time of Darkness" by HM hoover (older, and one of my favorites from childhood.) in the latter book, two kids team up to escape from an underground city where everyone lives due to environmental catastrophe (or so they're told) and no one knows any longer how to read or write. I hope you enjoy!
2016-05-22 08:47:20 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you liked "A Clockwork Orange," you might want to check out some other Anthony Burgess novels, perhaps his science fiction novel "The Wanting Seed" or his spy novel "Tremor of Intent." "Earthly Powers" may be his greatest book, and it will certainly give you many weeks worth of stuff to think about.
If you liked "Slaughterhouse Five," there are lots of other Kurt Vonnegut novels that might appeal to you. "Cat's Cradle" and "The Sirens of Titan" are two of my favorites, and there are quite a few others.
2007-12-09 08:47:30 · answer #3 · answered by classmate 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Years ago I read all of Anthony Burgess' books. Try reading M/F. That one should keep you thinking for a while. Also there was one about civilization after a world wide literal battle of the sexes. Also, can't remember the author but the title was "Ishmiel".
2007-12-09 08:41:13 · answer #4 · answered by vagpenisdude 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you read Trainspotting? That book is fantastic, but might be hard to read since it's written in a Scottish accent. A movie was made of it but it wasn't as good as the book.
2007-12-09 08:40:22 · answer #5 · answered by sparrowszealot 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1984, george orwell
brave new world, aldous huxley
one, david karp
a scanner darkly, philip k. dick
lord of the flies, william golding
2007-12-09 09:21:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"American Psycho" by Bret Easton Ellis
2007-12-09 08:40:35 · answer #7 · answered by Jeff W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Postman? (Perhaps)
2007-12-09 08:42:12 · answer #8 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe one book is fight club from chuck palahniuk...
2007-12-09 09:12:01 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
idk if this is for your age, but it's good nevertheless. LIFE OF PI. its adventure and it makes yo uthin kabout life and such. its great.
2007-12-09 08:39:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋