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If you're looking for a good book to read... I recommend these.

Monday, February 28, 2005

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

Brave New World is more than science fiction. It is a warning. Huxley gives us a glimps into the not so distant future. In a world where science has made everything perfect including the human race one man, Bernard Marx, isn't happy. Bernard has a strong desire to break free from this artificial world and to find fulfillment in the imperfect. Brave New World is a good read.

Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Written in Vonnegut's Typical pseudo-science fiction style the book takes us on a quest to find out what the creator of the A-bomb, Dr. Felix Hoenikker, was doing on the day it was dropped on Hiroshima. Instead of revealing the secrets of that day, the book shows us in detail how the world ended. A very good novel to read.

Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

This book has been called one of the greatest anti war books ever written. The book centers around the firebombing of Dersden. Vonnegut gives us a glimps into the fragmented life of Billy Pilgram a veteran of World War II and survivor of the Dresden bombing. Pilgram has become unstuck in time and we travle with him throughout his life to his death and back and forth in a mixed up time line. The book is sadly funny and if it wern't funny we wouldn't want to read it. The fact that it is funny is the most important thing about it, because everyone should read it.