The 2018 Reading Challenge - #28 - A Book with Song Lyrics in the Title
Hi guys ^^
I´ll give it a 7 out of 10
Hope you all are doing very well! How is your reading challenge going...seems like i`m failing again...probably wont do it again next year :( ;)
Today I wanted to talk about my choice for -A Book with Song Lyrics in the Title.
Might not seem like a obvious choice but I found it quite hard actually...to find a book for this prompt I mean...there are many but not many I wanted to read!
I chose 1984 which shares its title with the David Bowie song. There are actually even more reasons to read this book because of David Bowie songs: Big Brother and We Are The Dead ^^
Today I wanted to talk about my choice for -A Book with Song Lyrics in the Title.
Might not seem like a obvious choice but I found it quite hard actually...to find a book for this prompt I mean...there are many but not many I wanted to read!
I chose 1984 which shares its title with the David Bowie song. There are actually even more reasons to read this book because of David Bowie songs: Big Brother and We Are The Dead ^^
1984
by George Orwell
by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell. The novel is set in the year 1984 when most of the world population have become victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation.
As literary political fiction and dystopian science-fiction, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic novel in content, plot, and style. Many of its terms and concepts, such as Big Brother, double think, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Room 101, telescreen, 2 + 2 = 5, and memory hole, have entered into common usage since its publication in 1949.
Nineteen Eighty-Four popularised the adjective Orwellian, which describes official deception, secret surveillance, brazenly misleading terminology, and manipulation of recorded history by a totalitarian or authoritarian state. In 2005, the novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. It was awarded a place on both lists of Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching number 13 on the editor's list, and 6 on the readers' list. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 8 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.¹
Again a little summary from goodreads:
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"Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written."
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I´ll give it a 7 out of 10
Well lets begin this like...well lets say its not going to be my favourite book from now on...and thats totally my own opinion ;) and let me add at the same time I am so glad I added this to my books I read list ;)
1984 is a classic and a book everyone probably should have read once in a lifetime.
There are many amazing things about this book and its dystopian story, it flow and development, its characters and everything they do think and embody and I really liked all the ideas and themes in the book and how Orwell talks about them and makes you think about them and I find it fascinating how the topics talked about in the plot become more fascinating with every year going by because lets face it the become more and more real...lets hope not everything will be a thing one day.
Its an amazing book and I am very glad I read it but still not on my new favourite books for some reason I cant really put a finger on...what do you think?
1984 is a classic and a book everyone probably should have read once in a lifetime.
There are many amazing things about this book and its dystopian story, it flow and development, its characters and everything they do think and embody and I really liked all the ideas and themes in the book and how Orwell talks about them and makes you think about them and I find it fascinating how the topics talked about in the plot become more fascinating with every year going by because lets face it the become more and more real...lets hope not everything will be a thing one day.
Its an amazing book and I am very glad I read it but still not on my new favourite books for some reason I cant really put a finger on...what do you think?
For a little more inspiration and some alternatives ^^
(all summaries are from goodreads and easily found when searching for the title):
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald & Performed by many artists
Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character, Tender Is the Night is lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative.
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway & Performed by Metallica
In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight", For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote to Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time
Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character, Tender Is the Night is lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative.
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway & Performed by Metallica
In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight", For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote to Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote & Performed by Deep Blue Something
It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She is irrepressibly 'top banana in the shock department', and one of the shining flowers of American fiction.
Walking after Midnight by Katy Hutchison & Performed by Patsy Cline
Katy Hutchison waited five years to confront her husband's killer-and when she finally got her chance, she forgave him. This gripping page-turner tells the story of Hutchison's remarkable journey out of tragedy and into forgiveness, redemption, and hope.
Paperweight by Meg Haston & Performed by Joshua Radin
Seventeen-year-old Stevie is trapped. In her life. And now in an eating-disorder treatment center on the dusty outskirts of the New Mexico desert. Life in the center is regimented and intrusive, a nightmare come true. Nurses and therapists watch Stevie at mealtime, accompany her to the bathroom, and challenge her to eat the foods she’s worked so hard to avoid. Her dad has signed her up for sixty days of treatment. But what no one knows is that Stevie doesn't plan to stay that long. There are only twenty-seven days until the anniversary of her brother Josh’s death—the death she caused. And if Stevie gets her way, there are only twenty-seven days until she too will end her life.
It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She is irrepressibly 'top banana in the shock department', and one of the shining flowers of American fiction.
Walking after Midnight by Katy Hutchison & Performed by Patsy Cline
Katy Hutchison waited five years to confront her husband's killer-and when she finally got her chance, she forgave him. This gripping page-turner tells the story of Hutchison's remarkable journey out of tragedy and into forgiveness, redemption, and hope.
Heat of the Moment by Lauren Barnholdt & Performed by Asia
Lyla McAfee had all but forgotten the email that she wrote to herself freshman year and scheduled to be delivered right before graduation—the one promising that she’d learn to trust by the end of senior year. But when she receives it the first morning of her senior trip to Florida her life is sent into a tailspin. Soon she’s questioning her seemingly perfect relationship with her boyfriend, Derrick; her attraction to the school player, Beckett; and whether ending her friendship with Aven and Quinn, her former BFFs, was one of the biggest mistakes of her life.Paperweight by Meg Haston & Performed by Joshua Radin
Which book did you choose for this category?
Did you read 1984, I guess its often read in schools isn´t it?
I remember watching the old movie and I kind of only remember details which are probably not important to the story at all ;) hahaha
I remember watching the old movie and I kind of only remember details which are probably not important to the story at all ;) hahaha
With lots of love
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