I’m not sure what it is about a good dystopian story that grabs me.
Whether I’m reading it or watching it, the stories always make me stop and think.
Maybe I love them because they let me think that, as bad as things are here, in the real world, they aren’t THAT bad.
I know part of me is attracted to the idea of having to be creative to get by. Saving money, making do with what you have, etc.
I also love books about the depression, so that speaks to that piece of it for me.
Regardless of why, the books that I tend to devour the fastest are those about a post-apocalyptic world. Or a world that is like ours, just different in some intangible way.
I do the majority of my dystopian reading and watching in the summer. It just feels like the right time for it.
I just read the “The Selection” trilogy in two days. I picked up the next two books in the sequel series this morning and will read those as soon as humanly possible.
One of my favorite YA dystopian series was the “Life as We Knew It” series. Loved books one through three. Wanted to throw book four out the window.
When I finished reading them, I was ridiculed by my friends because I immediately put together an apocalypse bin in the basement with some canned goods, a first aid kit, and a few other items, in case the moon accidentally did get hit out of orbit by a passing meteor.
On Netflix, I loved “The Rain,” and “The 100,” “3%,” and am currently obsessed with “The Society.”
So, anyway, with a month and a half left of school, I am looking down the barrel of two months of sitting at the town pool, hiding my face in a book so my students don’t have to be embarrassed that their teacher is ten feet away from them at the community pool.
That means I have time. Time to read.
And time to watch, as, instead of listening to music, some days, while I work on the yard and the “garden” I have Netflix playing on my phone.
So, suggestions, please.
While the majority of the dystopian fiction I’ve read is young adult, I’m not entirely tied to it being only for teens. Adult dystopia can work, as well.
I need titles, friends.
Of books or shows I need to see that are dystopian in nature. Books I can get from the library. Shows or movies have to be available from Netflix or free on Amazon, as I don’t have Hulu.
Feed me, people!!!
