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Brave New World – Review #10 for AamilTheCamel

March 5, 2014 by AamilTheCamel Leave a Comment

The sequel to Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #CBR6, 130 challenge, aldous huxley, brave new world, dystopia, Fiction, huxley, sci-fi, utopia

AamilTheCamel's CBR6 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: #CBR6, 130 challenge, aldous huxley, brave new world, dystopia, Fiction, huxley, sci-fi, utopia ·
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Lord of the Flies – Review #8 for AamilTheCamel

February 18, 2014 by AamilTheCamel Leave a Comment

William Golding has painted the most beautiful picture with words and the picture is more than just that. It is more than the superficial veneer of a story, it a revelation.

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR6, 130 challenge, castaway, dystopia, Fiction, island, lord of the flies, marooned, william golding

AamilTheCamel's CBR6 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR6, 130 challenge, castaway, dystopia, Fiction, island, lord of the flies, marooned, william golding ·
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“Like a movie reel run in reverse”

January 19, 2014 by alannaofdoom 4 Comments

Wow. I’ve been sitting here considering just copy-pasting “wow” two hundred and forty-nine times. I’d give this book six stars if I could. I think North Korea holds a fascination for many of us in the west. Certainly it does for me. I was eight when the Berlin Wall fell; old enough to know that something was happening, but too young to really grasp the significance. North Korea is the only closed country I’ve ever been aware of. Cuba is near enough and porous enough […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #CBR6, apocalypse, dystopia, Non-Fiction

alannaofdoom's CBR6 Review No:3 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #CBR6, apocalypse, dystopia, Non-Fiction ·
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