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Dune
Category : Classics
Author : Frank Herbert
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0441172717
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Description : The best selling science fiction book in history. Probably because it appeals to every type of person in some way. There are elements of this book that are just gother than fuck. If you've just seen the movie, you're totally missing out on how intricate and wicked this book really is. Even if you hate science fiction, you'll love this book.
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This book added on : 24-Oct-2002 by Devin
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Category : Classics
Author : Douglas Adams
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0345391802
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Description : Join Douglas Adams's hapless hero Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and generally wreaking hilarious havoc. Dent is grabbed from Earth moments before a cosmic construction team obliterates the planet to build a freeway. You'll never read funnier science fiction; Adams is a master of intelligent satire, barbed wit, and comedic dialogue. The Hitchhiker's Guide is rich in comedic detail and thought-provoking situations and stands up to multiple reads. Required reading for science fiction fans, this book (and its follow-ups) is also sure to please fans of Monty Python, Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, and British sitcoms.
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This book added on : 08-Oct-2002 by IamSquid
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1984
Category : Classics
Author : George Orwell
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0452262933
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Description : "Outside, even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold. Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything except the posters that were plastered everywhere."
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.
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This book added on : 08-Oct-2002 by Kira
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Brave New World
Category : Classics
Author : Aldous Huxley
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0060929871
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Description : "Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today--let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren't yet to come.
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This book added on : 08-Oct-2002 by Monolycus
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Category : Classics
Author : Erich Maria Remarque
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0449213943
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Description : This is one of the most powerful books I have ever read. It's no wonder why they call it "The best war novel ever written."
Every young male should read this. It will make you reconsider begging to join the military, and expose the true horrors of war and the cold price of ignorance and destruction. It showed me how precious we all are and how people, especially males, are treated as garbage. The comprehension of this book can prove that wrong.
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This book added on : 27-Mar-2003 by Sticupus
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Faust: A Tragedy
Category : Classics
Author : Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0393972828
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Description : If yoo don't know it, yoo must read it.
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This book added on : 01-Jan-2003 by IamSquid
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