tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41559237463946337262012-02-16T02:05:03.293-07:00TDAWG's BooksTDawgnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4155923746394633726.post-42123123449160097282008-07-14T22:32:00.008-06:002008-12-11T14:22:33.653-07:00George Orwell's 1984This is my favorite of the three classic political dystopia novels. 1984 takes square aim at totalitarianism. The book continues to be amazingly relevant today - especially with regard to the privacy and freedoms that we've lost since 9/11 and with respect to the borderline fascist religious right movement that is trying to amend our Constitution.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img ja="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kSu2PE20R7o/SHwtBAsMHBI/AAAAAAAAAFk/rkp8dqGXW5E/s320-R/1984.jpg" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; cssfloat: ;" /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4155923746394633726-4212312344916009728?l=books.tdawgsblog.com' alt='' /></div>TDawgnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4155923746394633726.post-71559268846317788822008-07-14T22:05:00.005-06:002008-12-11T14:22:33.670-07:00Aldous Huxley's Brave New WorldThis is my second favorite of the three classic political dystopia novels. This one is not quite as dark as 1984 and offers an interesting contrast: where 1984 was concerned with a society in which people were intimidated and controlled through fear and the infliction of pain, here people are controlled by inflicting pleasure.<br /><br />In 1984 Orwell feared those who would keep information from us; here Huxley fears those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and apathy. This is another book that remains amazingly relevant to today's media intensive society.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kSu2PE20R7o/SHwwCgPNhiI/AAAAAAAAAFs/NZ1Px7VtZS8/s1600-h/bravenewworld.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-left: 1em; border-left: 0px; margin-right: 1em; border-bottom: 0px; background-color: transparent; cssfloat: ;"><img ja="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kSu2PE20R7o/SHwwCgPNhiI/AAAAAAAAAFs/f9F4T9eTi70/s320-R/bravenewworld.jpg" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; cssfloat: ;" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4155923746394633726-7155926884631778882?l=books.tdawgsblog.com' alt='' /></div>TDawgnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4155923746394633726.post-15141160967423358362008-07-14T22:00:00.005-06:002008-12-11T14:22:33.704-07:00Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451This is one of my favorite books of all time and is the third of the three classic political dystopia novels. This is the classic book on censorship and the repression of information by fascist / totalitarian governments.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kSu2PE20R7o/SHwzUgxzvlI/AAAAAAAAAF0/xiVFaMUtWNg/s1600-h/fahrenheit451.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-left: 1em; border-left: 0px; margin-right: 1em; border-bottom: 0px; background-color: transparent; cssfloat: ;"><img ja="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kSu2PE20R7o/SHwzUgxzvlI/AAAAAAAAAF0/Ew1dmQhsDJw/s320-R/fahrenheit451.jpg" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; cssfloat: ;" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4155923746394633726-1514116096742335836?l=books.tdawgsblog.com' alt='' /></div>TDawgnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4155923746394633726.post-74035452800952230522008-07-14T21:37:00.000-06:002008-12-11T14:22:33.719-07:00Scott Adams' God's DebrisThis book truly lives up to its billing as an experiment in thought.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kSu2PE20R7o/SHyvwIDm5RI/AAAAAAAAAF8/kQ5N8HC0NeI/s1600-h/godsdebris.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-left: 1em; border-left: 0px; margin-right: 1em; border-bottom: 0px; background-color: transparent; cssfloat: ;"><img ja="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kSu2PE20R7o/SHyvwIDm5RI/AAAAAAAAAF8/bsfu9uiZDeE/s320-R/godsdebris.jpg" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; cssfloat: ;" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4155923746394633726-7403545280095223052?l=books.tdawgsblog.com' alt='' /></div>TDawgnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4155923746394633726.post-39749923193317340942008-07-13T22:51:00.001-06:002008-07-13T22:59:16.547-06:00Good ReadingThese are some of my favorite books and authors.<br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><h2>LINCOLN CHILDS</h2><p>Death Match</p><h2>DOUGLAS PRESTON</h2><p>Tyrannosaur Canyon</p><h2>CHRIS KUZNESKI</h2><p>Sign of the Cross</p><h2>RAYMOND KHOURY</h2><p>The Last Templar<br /><h2>JOE BUFF</h2><p>Seas of Crisis<br /><h2>GREG ILES</h2><p>The Footprints of God<br /><h2>ISAAC ASIMOV</h2><p>I, Robot<br /><h2>DAVID BRIN</h2><p>Kiln People<br /><h2>STEPHEN KING</h2><p>On Writing<br /><p>The Stand<br /><p>From A Buick 8<br /><p>Storm of the Century<br /><h2>DAN BROWN</h2><p>Angels & Demons<br /><p>The DaVinci Code<br /><p>Deception Point<br /><p>Digital Fortress<br /><h2>MICHAEL CRICHTON</h2><p>State of Fear<br /><p>Timeline<br /><p>Prey<br /><p>Airframe<br /><p>Andromeda Strain<br /><h2>SCOTT ADAMS</h2><p>God's Debris: A Thought Experiment<br /><p>The Religion War<br /><h2>ROBERT SAWYER</h2><p>Calculating God<br /><p>Factoring Humanity<br /><h2>MITCH ALBOM</h2><p>The Five People You Meet In Heaven<br /><h2>ALDOUS HUXLEY</h2><p>Brave New World<br /><h2>RAY BRADBURY</h2><p>Fahrenheit 451<br /><h2>GEORGE ORWELL</h2><p>1984<br /><h2>CONNIE WILLIS</h2><p>Passage<br /><h2>STEPHEN BAXTER / ARTHUR CLARKE</h2><p>The Light of Other Days<br /><p>Time's Eye<br /><p>Sunstorm<br /><p>Childhood's End<br /><h2>TOM CLANCY</h2><p>The Hunt For Red October<br /><p>Patriot Games<br /><p>Clear And Present Danger<br /><p>The Sum of all Fears</p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4155923746394633726-3974992319331734094?l=books.tdawgsblog.com' alt='' /></div>TDawgnoreply@blogger.com0