The Bowie Book Club discussion

Aside from influencing Bowie, where else do you see the influence of 1984? Please, feel free to share any material that may be interesting to those who liked the book and want to read, watch a movie, etc, with a similar premise.

Also the Bradbury book, Fahrenheit 451, is pretty much similar, but the central characters are book-lovers:) It also give birth to a great movie by Francois Truffaut.

Peter wrote: "Also the Bradbury book, Fahrenheit 451, is pretty much similar, but the central characters are book-lovers:) It also give birth to a great movie by Francois Truffaut."

In many passages Farenheit 451 came to my mind...

I have not read any books by Murakami but Nineteen Eighty-Four had inspired his 1Q84 trilogy.

And there is 2084. La fin du monde by the immense Algerian author, Boualem Sansal, which is an Orwellian fable about Islamic dictatorship. Well, in some areas of the world, this is no longer a fable...

Peter wrote: "Also the Bradbury book, Fahrenheit 451, is pretty much similar, but the central characters are book-lovers:) It also give birth to a great movie by Francois Truffaut."

True! So you are a Truffaut lover :-) My favourite is Le dernier métro. But I haven't seen all his movies!

I love all of them:) The last one, Vivement dimanche is one of my favorites for some reason, it's just a little crime story with great charm, without any fancy new wave stuff. Not that I have anything against new wave:)

Peter wrote: "I love all of them:) The last one, Vivement dimanche is one of my favorites for some reason, it's just a little crime story with great charm, without any fancy new wave stuff. Not that I have anyth..."

I haven't seen it yet. Next to Le dernier métro, I have seen his movies filmed in the 60s (La Peau douce, Jules et Jim, etc.), and some of the 70s: La Nuit américaine, The Story of Adèle H. and La sirène du Mississippi (which I liked the least).
Still have many to catch on :-)
La Nouvelle Vague, almost forgot that Truffaut was part of it. For me Nouvelle Vague will always be Jean-Luc Godard (and A bout de souffle) even though it was more than just one movie ;-)

Read this interesting review earlier today... It is a correlation that seems obvious, but then again, I missed it myself.

Sharing for others who may feel that way or missed it, too...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Erma wrote: "Read this interesting review earlier today... It is a correlation that seems obvious, but then again, I missed it myself.

Sharing for others who may feel that way or missed it, too...
https://www..."

Thanks Erma :-) Very interesting indeed.
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