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 Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:54 am
Shell Bullet Alter Kazuma I started it, but never finished. I got the books I had been waiting a year for from the library and never went back to it. Rather interesting with some of the themes he created. Lots are actually around today. Scary. Big Brother is watching you
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 3:18 pm
1984 made me sad ;_; And towards the end...it felt like a B-movie...
Instead of making a new thread I just thought I'd use this one <.< Anybody?
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Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 7:05 pm
I read this for an AP English class senior year of high school and utterly loved it. Excellent read, in my opinion, with a lot of fascinating points brought up
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Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 12:40 am
crystalsmuse Really... Would you recomend this book to anyone? And why?
By the way, the soundtrack for the film version of 1984 by the Eurythmics kicks a**.
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Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 10:57 am
Second best "classic" dystopian futurist fiction I've read -- after Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury) and before Brave New World (Huxley), and much better than the crapfest that was Orwell's other more famous work, Animal Farm.
Most of the props have to go towards its integration into popular culture, though. Room 101, Big Brother, doublespeak, crimethink, etc. are all common to fairly well-known entrants into the public lexicon. Room 101 and Big Brother have both eponymised television programmes as well.
Wasn't a massive fan of that enormous exposition dump towards the end, however.
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Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 10:56 pm
1984 is a great read! I would definitely recommend it to anyone. Very relevant to today's society and the current trends in the U.S. government.
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 6:30 am
I have to say I absolutely, positively hate this book. I read it for my university English high school class in grade 11 and christ it bored and depressed the s**t out of me. I understand its modern relevance to now, since there are cameras everywhere and patriotism is at an all time high but the characters were terrible, the writing was gawdy and slow, it just didn't do anything for me.
It pained me to finish that book. Yes it did a good job of portraying the realistic and sickeningly methodical work of people during that kind of time in society but I just thought it was terribly written.
the Lion
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 2:00 pm
I read the book in 6th grade, after having read Animal Farm for school. I neither loved nor hated the book, but I do think it presents some interesting ideas.
I would recommend the read.
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 3:59 pm
****SPOILER*****
I got really pissed off when I finished the book.
My inner child really really wanted Winston Smith to single-handedly overthrow IngSoc. At the end, not even a spark of revolutionary thought could survive in him...I was mad that it was so depressing. Another thing that made me mad was Julia (I think that's her name). She was so much more simple-minded than Winston, and I wanted him to have a worthier partner. Plus, she was a slut wearing a Virginity sash. Ugh.
In all other respects, though, it seemed alright, if boring...If nothing else, it made me think, and think REALLY hard. Thinking really hard is thoughtcrime in itself...
The word "sedition" takes on whole new dimensions in the book.
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