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I went looking at my local used book store to pick up Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion because my friend recommended it, but they didn't have it. Here is what I did manage to get:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - I was surprised to find only one copy and it's undoubtedly one of the shittiest paperbacks I have ever seen. The cover of the book actually says BLADE RUNNER and has the fucking BR movie poster on it, and then in tiny parentheses it says "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" - whatever though, it was like $2 so I'll deal with it. I'm reading this now, just got to chapter 3. Definitely intrigued so far.
The Road - I've never read anything by Cormac McCarthy. I've seen this movie, liked it. Looking forward to reading the book. I was wanting to read some depressing, dystopian and/or post apocalyptic shit again.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Never read it. Figured I probably should.
Heart of Darkness - Never read it, again, figured I probably should.
I finished The Great Gatsby. I don't know guys, I enjoyed it but I guess it just wasn't for me.
I just want to say again that One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest is a fucking rad book. Damn what a great book.
Anyone want to recommend some dystopian and/or post-apocalyptic fiction?
I've read almost all of Philip K. Dick's books, and all but one are dystopian. (The one being Confessions of a Crap Artist.) And the only bad one I've read is Time, Inc. You're safe with any PKD if you're looking for dystopian, as long as you're OK with trippiness.
The Road is awful in my opinion, though I know most people loved it. This is The Road: We need to go south because reasons. We're starving. We better find food. We're freezing. We better find shelter. Uh oh, cannibals. Repeat x 1000. The author has said the book "wrote itself." I can tell.