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| - | [[Thomas Reed Whissen]]'s ''[[Classic Cult Fiction|Classic Cult Fiction: A Companion to Popular Cult Literature]]'' (1992) is a book on [[cult fiction]]. | + | '''''Walden Two''''' ([[1948 in literature|1948]]) is a [[utopian novel]] by [[Radical behaviorism|behavioral]] psychologist [[B. F. Skinner]], describing a thousand-person, rural planned community of happy, productive, and creative people. In the novel's 1976 preface, the author explained his dissatisfaction with American life and that ''Walden Two'' is an illustration that our knowledge of human behavior could be used to create a better social environment. |
| - | :"Cult classics are a special breed of book. Rarely do these books make the bestseller lists until they are "discovered" by readers who then recommend them to everyone they know. The "golden age" of cult literature falls between 1945 and 1975. Their readers are typically college students who connect with the elements of "romantic hope and longing as well as romantic disillusion and melancholy." Many of the titles below are now mainstream classics. It remains to be seen if some of the other titles will jump from "cult" to "classic" status." ---Thomas Reed Whissen, ''Classic Cult Fiction'', 1992 | + | |
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| - | == The list == | + | |
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| - | # [[Against Nature]], [[Joris-Karl Huysmans]] | + | |
| - | # [[Animal Farm]], [[George Orwell]] | + | |
| - | # [[Another Roadside Attraction]], [[Tom Robbins]] | + | |
| - | # [[Axel]], [[Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam ]] | + | |
| - | # [[Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me]], [[Richard Farina]] | + | |
| - | # [[The Bell Jar]], [[Sylvia Plath]] | + | |
| - | # [[Brave New World]], [[Aldous Huxley]] | + | |
| - | # [[A Canticle for Leibowitz]], [[Walter M. Miller, Jr.]] | + | |
| - | # [[The Catcher in the Rye]], [[J. D. Salinger]] | + | |
| - | # [[Catch-22]], [[Joseph Heller]] | + | |
| - | # [[A Clockwork Orange]], [[Anthony Burgess]] | + | |
| - | # [[The Day of the Locust]], [[Nathanael West]] | + | |
| - | # [[Demian]], [[Hermann Hesse]] | + | |
| - | # [[Dune]], [[Frank Herbert]] | + | |
| - | # [[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]], [[Hunter S. Thompson]] | + | |
| - | # [[The Fountainhead]], [[Ayn Rand]] | + | |
| - | # [[Frankenstein]], [[or the Modern Prometheus]], [[Mary Shelley]] | + | |
| - | # [[The Great Gatsby]], [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] | + | |
| - | # [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]], [[Douglas Adams]] | + | |
| - | # [[The Killer Inside Me]], [[Jim Thompson]] | + | |
| - | # [[Lady Chatterley's Lover]], [[D. H. Lawrence]] | + | |
| - | # [[Lolita]], [[Vladimir Nabokov]] | + | |
| - | # [[Look Homeward, Angel]], [[Thomas Wolfe]] | + | |
| - | # [[Lord of the Flies]], [[William Golding]] | + | |
| - | # [[The Lord of the Rings]], [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] | + | |
| - | # [[Lost Horizon]], [[James Hilton]] | + | |
| - | # [[Lucky Jim]], [[Kingsley Amis]] | + | |
| - | # [[One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest]], [[Ken Kesey]] | + | |
| - | # [[On the Road]], [[Jack Kerouac]] | + | |
| - | # [[The Outsider]], [[Colin Wilson]] | + | |
| - | # [[The Outsiders]], [[S. E. Hinton]] | + | |
| - | # [[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]], [[James Joyce]] | + | |
| - | # [[René]], [[François-René de Chateaubriand]] | + | |
| - | # [[A Separate Peace]], [[John Knowles]] | + | |
| - | # [[Siddhartha]], [[Hermann Hesse]] | + | |
| - | # [[Slaughterhouse-Five|Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death]], [[Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.]] | + | |
| - | # [[The Sorrows of Young Werther]], [[Goethe]] | + | |
| - | # [[The Stand]], [[Stephen King]] | + | |
| - | # [[Steppenwolf]], [[Hermann Hesse]] | + | |
| - | # [[The Stranger]], [[Albert Camus]] | + | |
| - | # [[Stranger in a Strange Land]], [[Robert Heinlein]] | + | |
| - | # [[The Sun Also Rises]], [[Ernest Hemingway]] | + | |
| - | # [[The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge]], [[Carlos Castaneda]] | + | |
| - | # [[This Side of Paradise]], [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] | + | |
| - | # [[Time and Again]], [[Jack Finney]] | + | |
| - | # [[Trout Fishing in America]], [[Richard Brautigan]] | + | |
| - | # [[2001: A Space Odyssey]], [[Arthur Clarke]] | + | |
| - | # [[Walden Two]], [[B. F. Skinner]] | + | |
| - | # [[Warlock]], [[Oakley Hall]] | + | |
| - | # [[Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance]], [[Robert M. Pirsig]] | + | |
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Walden Two (1948) is a utopian novel by behavioral psychologist B. F. Skinner, describing a thousand-person, rural planned community of happy, productive, and creative people. In the novel's 1976 preface, the author explained his dissatisfaction with American life and that Walden Two is an illustration that our knowledge of human behavior could be used to create a better social environment.
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