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[andrewducker]

[Poll #1410293]

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[marrog.livejournal.com]

I think it's interesting that people are choosing dystopian fiction and WW2 satire to 'represent them'. It suggests to me that you're getting variable interpretations - you state in your later post that what you were expecting here was a 'defining novel'. The book I choose to best represent me is not the one I would choose as my 'defining novel'. I suspect the same would be even truer for, say, Erin.

[andrewducker]

Brave New World would be in my top ten - because it illustrates things about modern society, and humanity, which are important to me. I can see other people feeling the same way about, say, 1984 and the modern Orwellian state.

I guess different people feel that their worldview/approach to life is represented by different things.