Top 5 Dystopian Novels to Get Into The Genre
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Dystopian Scifi is my absolute favorite genre. This means that I have consumed a LOT of it! As I continue to read more and more, this list may change, but as of right now, these are my top five that I would recommend to someone who wants to get into the genre.
If you want to check any of these books out:
5. The Giver - Lois Lowry
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4. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
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3. 1984 - George Orwell
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2. Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler
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1. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
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Great list! Speaking of dystopias, have you heard of 'CronoRevolution'? It's a mind-bending tale set in a future where freedom is an illusion. Definitely worth checking out if you're into stories about resistance and survival!
Mind blown 😃 A friend introduced me to a little known film "Remains of the day", apparently I was a "dead ringer" personality wise to Stevens. Thank you Kim 🤔
No doubt she made a great impression on me and I ended up reading the novel, plus "Buried Giant" and "Never Let Me Go".
I'm chuffed you're also a fan of Ishiguro. Murakami might be the author I would want more film adaptations of his works.
I would love to see more of his works adapted-- he has a beautiful way of expressing humanity!
My goodness! This was a great review! The RUclips algorithm brought me here, so hopefully you get an influx of views sometime soon. Absolutely incredible. After watching your review, I most definitely bought Parable of the Sower. I've read every book you've mentioned on here besides Parable of the Sower and Never Let Me Go. I'm not sure if I can stomach Never Let Me Go. Fahrenheit 451 should be added to this list. I'm a part of Gen Z and I've noticed very few of us read anymore and it is not even our fault. Everything is online and the viscerality of holding an actual physical book is being forgotten. We are given a choice between social media( which is dynamic, fast moving, and quick) or staring at a fixed screen for hours on end. It's sad. Anyway, I have subbed and I hope that you post more. :)
I actually am planning to read that book this year! I've never read Fahrenheit 451 and almost feel like a fake fan of dystopian because of this admission >.
strong list! super interested in parable of the sower now
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Could you review 'Prey World" by Alexander Merow? It is a great German dystopian novel
Hi can you do a video review of the Keeper of Rhymes kindle ebook please...it seems the plot is completely mental!!!! But i want to make sure by watching a review before i buy😅. Thanks!
Man 1984 has been on my TBR for so long.... I really need to get to it. Daniel's review of the Butler book highlighted that one for me originally. It sounds fascinating.
Both are so good! 1984 is so quintessential -- it's up there with Animal Farm. Orwell is legit brilliant! but it's not everyone's cup of tea because it's quite heavy. I would recommend audio book for it!
And yes -- Parable of the Sower is probably my favorite read this year!
1:24 I think the question was rhetorical, but surely the dystopian overlords would have an answer.
Good dystopian stories can be helpful for encouraging people to straighten up and fly right by showing the horror resulting from the darker directions many are tempted to take.
Never Let Me Go sounds sad. I don't know if this is too inappropriate to say since I don't know the tone of your channel, but your description of the girl who was a clone reminded me of a podcast I used to listen to with interviews of antonymous donor conceived children showing how they felt about being children of antonymous donors. I hope Never Let Me Go functions as a good cautionary tale for respecting the sanctity of life.
Also, I do like the color blue! Red was my favorite color, but I'm warming up to the calmness of blue.
Have a wonderful Wednesday, Mich...Wait, what happened to Heather? They got her, didn't they? Did she question who they was? I think ZombiesRuinEverything also questioned who they was. I gotta start cracking open dystopian books to try to see what needs to be done to stop more people from being taken by they.
oh yes -- it's a clear: humans all have souls, regardless if they are copies. It is sad, but all dystopians are tbh
I changed it to Michi Reviews for streamlinedness between my channels i'm still not 100% on the names
@@HeartofMichii The best dystopian stories might be sad, but there's certain ones like Demolition Man and Arnold Schwarzennger movies where the comedy keeps things from getting heavy, so, people can just focus on the fun action, and then reflect back on the brutal aspects of the dystopian worlds without being weighed down. Also, they might have a power fantasy when going through some brutal trials in life.
Also, when taking in a story, thinking about audience reaction can lessen the sad factor because it might lift people spirits to think that others might be inspired by the story to prevent the dystopian world from happening.
Although, maybe most people view the stories as pieces for analysis or entertainment, and the people that think the stories are inspirational, are really just getting a morale boost for whatever they were going to do regardless of the story. Which is still a good thing.
I think everyone is influenced by the media they consume, so that's why it's important for there to be a redemptive aspect to the darkness of dystopian stories such as showing a character growing in fortitude in the midst of horror. That can take away from sadness. If characters are tortured to death while remaining virtuous, that can be happy. Everyone has or will suffer, so it can be uplifting to see a character press on and fight the good fight after being put through the wringer.
And that's a reason I had a beef with linear time travel as a solution for dystopian worlds. Come on, fellas! Just fight on!
I recently listened to a podcast where someone was talking about how he didn't care for the lighter aspect of Schindler's List, and I thought I was there with him because I thought Schindler's List was Spielberg fluff and I didn't get the hype, and then he brought up Life is Beautiful being too comedic in it's presentation of the Holocaust, and I was surprised because, even though I haven't seen it since I was a kid, it's a movie I don't to go back to because just thinking about it is sad.
So I guess what will make someone sad when taking in a dystopian story will depend on the person.
What's your thoughts on characters using linear time travel as a solution for dystopian worlds?
I love dystopian scifi. Your description of Never Let Me Go reminds me of a section of Cloud Atlas, one of my favorites and another dystopian-adjacent novel that explores ideas related to humanity and the soul, I think you might like it.
I honestly really enjoyed the Cloud Atlas movie (despite some of the odd makeup choices). I think I should read the book. I really enjoy those kinds of conversations -- who is your favorite author?
@@HeartofMichii Same!
My favorite will probably always have to be Kurt Vonnegut. He's a classic; humanist, funny, and meta.
I've really been liking Ted Chiang lately - his scifi short stories are like episodes of Black Mirror, but uplifting instead of grim and dark. He's lighter on character but heavy on ideas, though.
(And I have to give a guilty pleasure mention to Jim Butcher and The Dresden Files)
What about you?
ahem.. first, that black outfit package is a dystopian beauty! :) also the intro retro-chill music was cool, like the theme music of 'Society Tomorrow' in 'Corporate', you know. I love good retroWave music :)
now, unpopular opinion ahead, I tried to read 'Never Let Me Go' twice but I couldn't get through it because I got bored to hell both times. I think '1984' is rather "non-fiction", if you know what I mean. although I prefer 'Brave New World' over this book in terms of an stable model for our future society, with some modifications & additions of course. 'The Giver' was ok, though I didn't quite understand why Jonas ran away at such an early stage (i.e. I know the author's reasoning but I don't get it). it would've been great if we had the chance to see his character development throughout the years as he completes all the training and becomes the full titled future Giver/Receiver. but I guess the author had another point to make. anyway, I haven't read the other two.
tbh, it's been a long time since I abandoned Sci-Fi due to some reasons and man I'm way way behind this genre now. but the good news is that I'm back on track again and I'm happy af :)
now what if I told you that just today, yes today, I've began the 'Red Rising' pentalogy (total 2600+ pages!) and I hope it'd be great as critics mentioned in the reviews.
honestly, I can see why you would say that about never let me go -- it's pretty slow. I should have mentioned that :(
I need to finish the giver quartet, maybe my mind will change. I think this is also the second time you mentioned Brave New World, so I think i need to check it out!!
@@HeartofMichii yeah but I don't mind a slow burner. tbh, the main reason was fact that it seemed like a movie in the old italian neorealism school with a difference that there's an obvious punch line at the end. though the writing style and prose was good and I think that's one of Ishiguro's strengths which earned him a Nobel prize.
people strongly suggested in the reviews that it's better not to read the rest of the Giver saga.
I did. cool then, hope you enjoy it.
The only one I’ve read so far is 1984.
ahhh you gotta read more of them!
Well I suppose I could read Hunger Games to find out why everyone likes it so much after I’m done reading the last two books in the Expanse series and Prince of Thorns.
@@austin5690 ohhh I'm curious what you will think of Prince of Thorns -- I really enjoyed the main character, despite his terribleness. And The Expanse is definitely on my TBR!!
Well I did read the first 15 chapters or so of prince of Thrones. So far I like that the chapters are short because I have a short attention span. I like how Jorg has a flashback every other chapter instead of just dumping everything about him and his motives in the first chapter. I think they do a pretty good job of explaining at least part of the reason why he’s such an evil character. It’s a bit of a cleche but I don’t mind cleches
@@austin5690 It definitely errs on the the line of Cliche, but i don't mind it. What I enjoy most is the world as well and his relation to it. and the psychological analysis. There are also some quotes that I pulled from that book which are so spot on
Missing: Brave New World, Anthem, The Time Machine.
i know i had not read those yettttt
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