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Summary: A warning for the future.
Review: A frightening look at what might have happened at the end of World War II, "1984" provides a fascinating look at a fictional society that is the PERFECT dictatorship. The Party is all-knowing, its citizens under complete control, and the truth is subject to the party's wishes. It would be impossible to overthrow the Party. A very disturbing book.
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Summary: Scary book
Review: This book is the most scary book I`ve ever read. It`s about how our world can end up if the communists had won the war. It is not an enjoyable read, but it is an important read. It is about how communism take control from the people and how the people are powerless to do anything about it. Parts of it is a thriller and parts of it is a lovestory. It has remarking recemblance to The Innocent, by Ian McEwan (this book is also reviewed on my page) because of the reader fear that the couple will split up by the third part, the men in control, the goverment. As said before, this book is scary, because this is happening right now in modern society. We just have to stand up to the virus named communism without ending up being greedy capitalists
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Summary: Five stars? That hardly pays tribute to such a masterpeice.
Review: It was quite edifying to read the reviews, as you may read, preaching the book's outdated prophesy and it's over exagerated message, yet when I looked at where these poor souls inhabited I laughed. We are presented with people from the United States to England to Canada slandering a man who beautifully wrote an inspirational attack on that which would prevent you from living in such a lifestyle as you most likely do live in or want to live in. If you have never lived under tyranny how could you know? Now please forgive my hypocritical words for I am only sixteen but this along with other books has opened my mind to something so great and terrible. The more I look at who should be my fellow brothers and sisters the more I think about this novel's relevance. I see how easily one can except anything presented with a superficial answer and how much hate is spread through pride. From the "Two Minute Hate', and 'Big Brother' to the 'Telescreen' and the last four words of the novel, this book is a clearer mirror than any other to view our own times, all throughout time, no longer bolstered up with impressions and controversy.
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: Have you ever thought what it would be like to have a central government monitor everything you do? To live in a world where you are limited in what you could say, or even think? Or how would you feel if your government assigned you to a partner, and you had to breed, for the sake of the government and nothing more. In the book 1984, by George Orwell, a character named Winston Smith lived in a society very similar to this. He lived in the city called Oceania, during the year 1984. The book centered around Winston's life in this communist-like society. His life and everyone else's around him was controlled by someone or something only known to them as "Big Brother." They were surrounded by signs constantly reminding them that "Big Brother is Watching." Telescreens, or 2 way TV screens were mounted in almost every room, and street. Microphones were everywhere, monitoring every step you took. They lived their lives in constant fear that they would do something wrong, which would surely sentence them to the wrath of the Thoughtpolice, a task force organized by the "Party," to keep order. This "Party," supported, and represented Big Brother. A modified version of the English language called Newspeak was developed which completely centered around "The Party". Its vocabulary was limited to words that only supported the Party. All other words were eliminated. I thought this was a very good book. It was written very well, with strong imagery, and an interesting plot. It was a quick read, despite it's 300 pages. It touches on everyone's fears of communism, and gives you a different look at government.
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Summary: 1984
Review: 1984 is a very creative and well written book, Winston Smith the main character who is an insignifacant member of the ruling party in London in the nation of Oceania. Everywhere he goes he is video taped by cameras of the so called "Big Brother" party. This books talks about Winston on how he thinks what the "Big Brother" does is unfair. I enjoyed reading this book, it was very creative and well written. It makes me appreciate what I have in life. I also woundn't like the situation that Winston is put by being watch all the time. I reccommend this book to people who are willing to sit threw some boring parts and who love science fiction. Overall it was a good book, but I don't think Iam ever going to want to read this book again.
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Summary: 1984
Review: 1984 is a very creative and well written book, Winston Smith the main character who is an insignifacant member or the ruling party in London in the nation of Oceania. Everywhere he goes he is video taped by cameras of the so called "Big Brother" party. This books talks about Winston on how he thinks what the "Big Brother" does is unfair. I enjoyed reading this book, it was very creative and well written. It makes me appreciate what I have in life. I also woundn't like the situation that Wiston is put by being watch all the time. I reccommend this book to people who are willing to sit threw some boring parts and who love science fiction. Overall it was a good book, but I don't think Iam ever going to want to read this book again.
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Summary: Definitely one of the beast books that I have ever read.
Review: This book is skillfully written, intrusting, and entertaining. It is not a difficult read, but is not oversimplified in its language, and despite being written in 1949 the story and language do not seam dated (this, I consider it worth noting is the opinion of a high school student, who read this book voluntarily, rather than for school.) The books image of life in a society, that is an example of a communist society as it is most commonly perceived, though is certainly not a society that follows the equality based principals of communism (no 'communist' nation ever has). The story, in summery, is definitely worth reading, and I would recommend it to anyone over the age of 14. (Worth is that I read, and liked, Animal farm, though I do not consider it to be nearly so good a book as 1984. I would recommend that to anyone as young as 12, due to the simplicity of its language.
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Summary: What else can be said?
Review: What else is there to say? Even those that didn't like this book must at least concede that it's extremely well-written - and I would wager that the overwhelming majority of those that didn't like this book are either 1) too young, or 2) simply didn't understand it.1984 is one of the classics of Western literature. If you're going to read an Orwell novel, read this before Animal Farm. Read both, but read 1984 first. It's entertaining and incredibly engaging.
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Summary: 1984
Review: This book is incredible. It is almost haunting how close to home some of it hits. You must read it for yourself to truly understand how startling it is.
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Summary: Worth reading
Review: Unlike "Animal Farm", this book isn't inspired solely by the Soviet Union. The totalitarianism described in the book is very different from every-day life in Socialist countries while not lacking some coincidental similarities. You are going to see a totalitarian regime through the eyes of a small party official. You'll get introduced to his every-day life and work, and see him starting to have strange thoughts that he's actually not supposed to think. Orwell's world is much worse than the Soviet Union ever was. I must warn you that some very brutal scenes are described in detail and are really hard to take. The end is very Orwellian - too abrupt and somewhat disappointing. The film was pretty good, too.
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