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Why Do We Like Dystopian Novels?

Dave Astor | Posted 12.19.2012 | Books
Read More: Suzanne Collins, William Golding, Lois Lowry, Sinclair Lewis, Anthony Burgess, George Orwell, Dystopian Novels, Ray Bradbury, Margaret Atwood, Aldous Huxley, h.g. Wells, Cormac McCarthy, The Hunger Games, Mary Shelley, Jack London, Books News
Dave Astor

War. Death. Despair. Oppression. Environmental ruin. Yup, when it comes to demoralizing literature, dystopian novels have it all! Yet many of us love this genre, and there are good reasons we do.

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Tonally Inappropriate Book Covers

flavorwire.com | Posted 08.06.2011 | Books
Read More: William Golding, J.D. Salinger, Book Covers, Lewis Carroll, George Orwell, Lord of the Flies, David Foster Wallace, Gone With the Wind, David Copperfield, All Quiet on the Western Front, Infinite Jest, Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm, Books News

Everyone knows that you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but um, we kind of do it all the time. In fact, half the fun of that anachroni...

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'Harry Potter,' 'The Giver,' 'Lolita,' 'Howl'

Dan Wilbur | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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Dan Wilbur

"Lolita," for instance, is now "Likable Rapists." It makes you think that perhaps these new titles are what censors out there really see.

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William Golding, "Lord Of The Flies" Author, Tried To Rape Teenager, Private Papers Show

guardian.co.uk | Martin Wainwright | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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The Nobel laureate Sir William Golding, whose novel Lord of the Flies turned notions of childhood innocence on their head, admitted in private papers ...

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Bad Dreams From My Grandfather

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Daniel Bruno Sanz

Shadowy non-state actors contemplate flattening an American city with a device smuggled into the United States at one hundred possible ports of entry.

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