For my online classes I have to analyze two books that are very different to each other. Aspects like being in different genres, being written by authors from different backgrounds, being intended for different demographics etc.
I've been meaning to read Brave New World for a while, so that's one book solved. Feel free to tell me your favourite books that are very different from in one or more of these regards!
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Never Let Me Go or Handmaid's Tale are dystopias but very different in style which should provide a lot of points to analyze
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How similar or loose do the novels actually have to be?
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Read confederacy of dunces. It’s pretty different from brave new world
You could compare it to HG Wells “Men Like Gods” which is what it’s a parody of
Read one of Orwell's fictions (e.g. 1984) and one of his non-fictions (e.g. Down and Out in London and Paris).
Compare the societies within. One leaves you free to be destitute, the other revokes freedom but preserves life.
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Chrome Yellow, but that's pretty similar to BNW. In fact he's lays out a lot of the groundwork by ruthlessly mocking the protag and describing a proto-BNW society as somebody's musings at some fair.
It's more of a dark comedy, a satirical take on english country novel, sort of a hateful and less funny Jeeves and Wooster type thing.
I might have sold it wrong, but it's a fun read and kind of THE thing to compare and contrast.
The only other thing I've read of his is Antic Hay, which is similarly mean and satirical but imo less interesting.
Oh sorry, I read you as meaning "a book by Aldous Huxley that is not Brave New World", but you meant "a book that is not Aldous Huxley's Brave New world" and in fact wanted something extremely different.
I suggest the Tao te Ching. It's short, by someone whose background is extremely different, not fiction at all, but does deal with sort of the fate and purpose of humanity.
Same. Same came here to recommend Chrome yellow or Time must have a Stop. The latter is also a social novel, and really fricking good.
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Call of the Crocodile. Or Call of the Arcade. Either one is fine because you can read them in any order.
Sorry, I'm american and therefore can't think of any other book beside BNW and 1984
You should really pick some work of fantasy, like Tolkien or something. Considering you have a sci-fi dystopia and need something different, something compelling would be an epic fantasy with a satisfyingly good ending. Plus, I think Tolkien talks about the exact opposite themes that Huxley does, in this book at least. The fiction is secondary in Huxley's work while there's a philosophical and sociological dimension to it. The other pick is merely moralistic at times and has an aestheticist approarch to storytelling. Tolkien made a world which was made specifically to immerse into it, while Huxley warns and advises against his.
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