1984

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Summary: survival kit for the 21st century
Review: Cynical, pessimistic, and utterly untrusting of the motives of anyone in a position of power. It's all you need to decipher any political speech, posturing or campaign.

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Summary: My review
Review: This is a great book. The book is full of suspense, you never really know what is going to happen next. It is also scary that someone would predict the future to be so negative and it is even worse that some things in the book are actually happening today. The author really brings the to life book by using good diction. Overall, I immensely enjoyed this book and I believe it is a must read for all people.

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Summary: Go to the real source
Review: This is a great book. Because it has been unsuccessfully re-written many times by lesser minds people suggest this as the source. However, the book "We" by Eugene Zamatin, an exiled Russian (like Nabokov, or Dostoyevsky), came first is even more powerful. I believe that it is out of print (at least the english translation), but if there is enough interest in it that could be rectified. Also, now more than ever the theme of governmental control is very relevant.

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Summary: Yes, we are being observed
Review: Ten years ago I would have dimissed this book as a good work of the "science fiction" category, and refused to believe that the government is orchestrating a plot to take full control of its citizens and the rest of the world.

Sadly considering the present state of affairs, when we see that a group of criminals, is in charge of the US government. When they openly lie to its citizens in order to scare them so that a war can be sold to them. When Fox News as well as CNN, ABC, NBC and CBS, are devising ways to misconstruct reality and eliminate any posible inquiry or doubt about the behavior of their government. When we notice that the so called Patriotic Act is nothing more that a facist manifesto, intended to erase all the freedoms which it is supposed to protect. Then, its almost impossible to think that this book is not profetic, and its just missed its mark on the title by a few decades.

Although, the atmosphere of the book is so gloom, as life is today, the author points out that forces such as love, or sex, can not be effectively kept under control by anyone be it a person or a government, no matter how well structured such control is. Therefore at some point fear will be challenged and with that small act of defiance a possibility opens so that that freedom, even as a concept, will not cease to exist.

Lets hope that the US voters some day will see their present leaders as the criminals they are and avoid - for their benefit of and that of the world - the completion of the story depicted in this book.

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Summary: A Must-Read
Review: Read this book. No matter what your political affiliations, this classic will open your eyes to the dangers of conformity and control. In Orwell's chilling vision, only opinions and views approved by the State are permitted. Is the world we live in today so very different? Yes and no. No, we are not arrested for listening to the Dixie Chicks. Nor are we jailed for reading Ann Coulter. Yes, there are those in positions of influence (on both sides of the political spectrum) who would probably like to make a few such arrests. Just kidding ... maybe.

This book is brilliantly written, the characters well-developed and compelling, the setting frighteningly real. The central thrust of this novel is the idea that being able to tell the truth is essentially being free to comment upon the world as you understand it. We all have different points of view, none of which represents the sum total of reality. Orwell creates a world where the ruling powers dictate the perception of reality to the masses. Reading this book will help to train you to identify this practice in the modern world and, hopefully, also train you to resist.

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Summary: Scarry Real
Review: Those TeleScreens are just a few years down the road...

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Summary: Something everyone must be made to read
Review: 1984 is probably the most bonechilling novel I have ever read. It isn't even a cheap thriller either. A true testiment of the reality of human nature and that of the future. I cried at parts. Everybody should read this book at sometime in their life or they will be missing out on a chance to really understand how frightening Bolshevism could have been. I would also like to say that you shouldn't read this book to young or you will be shocked and you will also not fully understand it.

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Summary: Hidden reality in a novel
Review: This book reflects many aspects of our societies, in a clearly, detailed way, both good and bad ones.

You may know the saying "history is written by the victors." 1984 goes deeper and explains you why they write (and rewrite) the history, how they do it, or how would they do it.

The story becomes beatiful when describing love, peace, songs, and so on, but it is cruel when talking about punishments and total control (I skipped some pages).

When reading the book you would either think "this is a novel" or "this is our society." But you might think "this is our society" after finishing the book, anyway.

Not a book to enjoy, but for reflections.

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Summary: Absolutely Enraptureing!
Review: George Orwell writes an amazing book on one mans life, from what he thought 1984 would be like. it was stunning and wonderful. I definetly reccomend this book!! I had no idea what i would be reading when i came home from my sister's house when she gave me 1984.

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Summary: A bleak and very possible future
Review: 1984

George Orwell's most famous novel. Written in the 1950's, during a time of post WWII cleanup and violent revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe, 1984 plunges the World into a limited nuclear war, and the division of the planet into three superstates, which are constantly "at war" with each other. The main character and the leading lady live in the Superstate of Oceania, where Totalitarian Government controls every aspect of the lives of the citizens. Big Brother "watches" his citizens via the Thought Police, by means of spying on them, even in their homes, with electronic devices. Three words from this book, Thoughtcrime, Double Speak and Double Think have made their way into common English vocabulary. After reading the book, you are left with a hollow and helpless feeling. I recommend this book to everyone.