Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Fahrenheit 451 - 2012 Book Quest

My internet connection has decided it is a woman, and is now acting accordingly. It is unstable, moody and pissing me off!
I have gone so far as to actually draw eyes and a mouth for the modem (no pictures because I am terrible at drawing and you do not need to see that!). My roommate was eyeing the modem suspiciously and kept insisting the eyes were following him.

On a totally unrelated note I finished Fahrenheit 451 and I was a bit confused until my aforementioned roommate explained the concept of science fiction to me. I have never read much science fiction, and for some reason I had got into my head that it was all about space and aliens. Turns out it is not. Who'd have thunk!

The book was good though a bit confusing at times. It did not appear to the Author that it might be nice to know who was talking once in a while. Apart from that I liked the Orwellian feel of the future society. And for someone like me, the whole concept of burning books seemed very frightening. What if they came here and took my books? Burned the all in front of me? Scary stuff!

I am now reading Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. So far it is very humorous especially when he explains the different catches. Like this one, Catch-22:
 There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he were sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.
I had to read it twice because at first my reaction was "Wait, what?".

The lack of internet is proving very healthy for my reading, and I have already read a fourth of the book. So naturally I am starting to wonder what I should read next. So I have started a poll over here ---------------------------------------------------------->
What do you guys think? please help me decide by voting for your favorite, or tell me in the comments what I need to read next.

Till next time.

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