Die!!!!! .......okay that might be a tad over the top, but c'mon.....St Annie?

Vangelis! what a fantastic score. I had that on tgape years ago, don't know what happened to it.....I really should download it sometime.

Thanks. Playing it right now.

You can't seriously mean that. You must have know someone evil in your childhood who resembled her, and you've transferred those bad memories to a very talented musician and singer. Surely, an unbiased review of her music would never lead to the conclusion you found.

if you like Vangelis, you'll probally like one of his earlier works, L'Apocolys des Animaux', from not long after he left Aphrodites' Child..

1984, Brave New World....

A Handmaid's Tale is a more recent addition to that particular bookshelf. By Margaret Atwood, it's very disturbing. But hard to put down and forget about.

I always thought Albedo 0.39 and Heaven and Hell were far superior to the Bladerunner soundtrack, and hands down better than Chariots of Fire.

Sorry, never really did like her. Fingernails on a chalkboard. Her voice, I mean...as far as musical talent I am not one to judge, but that song where she wails about some boat sinking makes me ill.

Sorry if I've offended.

i've seen the film (was it Dennis Hopper?!) but not read the book. the film was disturbing too.

Robert Duvall.

The book is better, but I was impressed by the movie.

Animal Farm too -- a metaphorical tale about human cussedness, really. And I'm about halfway through Zamyatin's We. In places, it's funny, in a creepy sort of way. If lives were made in an old-fashioned factory, they'd look like this.

And oh yeah -- Down And Out In Paris And London. That's the lot.

Hated Animal Farm, thought 1984 was enjoyable but a bit light. By the time I'd read either book I had already explored the socio-political content in other books, movies, discussions.

Orwell's style is kind of stilted too.

Freedom is Slavery. This is what causes apathy and self-destruction in many (upper-)middle class kids. When you have few worries and nearly limitless options for how to live your life it can be really hard to identify what to pursue. Life eventually batters the problem out of most people, but a glut of options can easily hidebound anyone (ever tried to configure or design a very complex system?).

Grant, well said.

Clearly, it would be necessary to the best adapted (in the psychological sense) psyche not merely to have an array of options, a large one or a small, but to actually bring them into being, to make them, each and every one.

This would be why self-made men so seldom suffer from that kind of anomie. It wasn't just that they were too busy.

And it would matter in what stage of your life you read 1984. I read it in adolescence, and Animal Farm also.