Why don't I just stop pretending this is anything other than a book journal?

[presque_penny]

Yesterday I found a fantastic second-hand bookshop. Right next to a train station = easy access. Books everywhere. On shelves, in teetering piles around the shelves, in drifts on the floor where the piles had collapsed. There's something about places like that. Besides, everywhere I looked I could see good books. Not just people's leftover readers

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[lucystag]

Three cheers for dystopian novels. Ah, I love them well. Which is why I selected the seminar class "Utopias and Dysopias" as soon as I read the name in my college catalog.

However, Utopian novels? Not nearly as awesome. The ones we've read for the class also seem less subtle than the dystopian ones I have read. Maybe just because they are older, but they seem more plotness, and clearly just vehicles for political ideas. Wheras, dystopian ones, being AGAINST thing, against repression, seem to more subtle.

[presque_penny]

I don't think I've ever read a utopian novel, but I have read your journal entries about them, which is probably about as close as I'm going to get, for now at least.