Orwell's 1984

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Erasmus_Folly
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Post by Erasmus_Folly »

knightss wrote:it is a great book i finshed it a few nights ago.. i love the theory of newspeak.
So does George W. Bush.
One must think like a hero merely to behave like a decent human being.
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haha indeed
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hahaha seriously, its eery
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absolutely one of my favourite books - hands down! the entire discussion between Obrien and Winston at the end of the book is brilliant! and i think that the last line of the novel is what makes it so outstanding.
(sorry for the old thread revival but i just had to comment :-)
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Post by MyHeartOfDarkness »

1984 is a very influential book in displaying the struggle of the individual in a suffocating society, the turning point in the novel is terrifying but stunningly written . Although the middle section of the novel, although its necessary in conveying the sense to which the government controlled the population, but it does drag a little on. The ending which you seem to criticise is beautiful but tragic in different measure, the gin stained tear, and the ending leaves no apparent hope for anyone, but still very influential. If you can ignore the newspeak, even tho i love it, and concentrate on the story , it is actually really brilliant.
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Post by blue_doona32 »

This book is on my summer reading list for my senior english class next year. I borrowed it from the library yesterday and started reading it last night. So far its a really good (if not an eerie sort of good) book. It scares me a little, too, because of the reality that this book sets up. I mean, this sort of society can, has happened!
Its a really "getcha-thinking" kind of book and can't wait to finish it!
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Just mentioned in another thread that I picked this up again after a decade or more and it was an even better read now than it was then. I think when I first read it, it made you think of the Soviet Union and what could happen "over there." Upon reading it from a more mature place, as well as a different place in history, it was frightening to see that most of what we thought could happen 'over there' is happening 'over here'. This book is frighteningly prophetic. The story is engaging in its dreariness and hoplessness, not in spite of it. Will always recommend this one.
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