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Summary: Brilliant
Review: The greatest book ever to be put to print. The first time I read it I became utterly depressed, but I knew the book was too good to be merrely dismissed as depressing. So I reread it and found it a harrowing novel. Helplessness is the best word to describe the feeling of this novel.
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Summary: One of the the best books ever written.
Review: George Orwell was a genius when writing this book. This book is pure genius! I reccomend everyone to read this book. It shows how much we really have in life, and that we need to protect our freedom and rights at all costs. It would be a nightmare to live in his world
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Summary: Very nice, very nice work indeed
Review: I found this book to be very revealing, and also a bit scary. Not scary in the 'boogy man' way, but in the 'this could happen' way. If he was still alive, i'd tip my hat to Mr. Orwell.
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Summary: Big Brother Is Watching!
Review: An absolutely phenomenal book written half a century ago depicting what life could become by the year 1984. What a vivid imagination Orwell possessed as he created a futuristic world in which everything is strictly monitored. Everyone in the book seems to be frightened to death to go against the system. I had heard my,"Big Brother," speak of this book in my younger days and decided to explore the novel myself. Complete enjoyment is what I experienced while reading this wonderful piece of literature. Experience it for yourself whenever you can because it's well worth the time. I would like to thank the reader from Washington State for the recommendation of the sequel to 1984 as I had no idea that it existed.
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Summary: Captivating
Review: Although I used to read books all the time (mostly teen series like the Baby-Sitters Club), I rarely find one these days that I can stand to read for more than 10 minutes. A few, however, I have been unable to put down and one of those is 1984. This book compelles the reader to think, something so few people do today. It is incredibly frightening to think about living in such a tightly controlled society where one cannot even hold one's own opinions! To live without love and sex and opinions or emotion of any kind is truly terrifying. The book is so enthralling, I could not finish it the first 2 times I read it. Imagining the depths of the Ministry of Love and thinking about what would await me in my own personal Room 101 gave me nightmares. No other book has produced such an effect on me. It doesn't matter how accurate he was about communism or whether or not communism is really bad. The fact remains that it is a wonderfully written and incredibly creative piece of work.
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Summary: This is my favorite book of all time!
Review: I first read this book 4 years ago, at the age of 13, and it became one of the most important influences on my life. When I finished it for the first time, I was simply amazed, and have read it four times since. One thing I'd like to say about this novel: stop regarding it as 'political'! People make alot of references to it when talking politics (ie the relations between PC and Newspeak, etc) but this isn't the book's main purpose. This is a book about a man struggling to find freedom, happiness and truth under an oppressive government of power freaks. It also asks philosophical and psychological questions, such as 'what is truth?', and 'what does it take to break the human spirit?' , which are masterly integrated into the plot. The aesthetics and reality of this novel are also great. It really adds to the suspense and mood of the novel. That's all I have to say. When you're done and feel like something a little more uplifting, read its 1994 sequel, "Orwell's Revenge"
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Summary: Worst book ever.
Review: Orwell is not my favorite author, obviously. 1984 may have been the crux of his career, but for me it is the worst book ever. It is most obviously an attempt at satire of communism. The thing here is, does the author or any of his readers know what communism is? There are so many parallels between 1984 and Animal Farm, his other acclaimed book. Big Brother is Napoleon, of course. (parody of Stalin) Snowball is Goldstein (parody of Trotsky). The windmill is the Flying Fortress, what keeps being rebuilt over and over. There is little original about this novel. How do the numerous sexually abundant scenes in this book help its role as a satire? All that happens is Winston has sex with Julia. There is a constant war with a country, and the hint is that Oceania is THE only country in the world. Does this hint that communism creates a warlike society? Communism in its true form is a state no government has yet achieved. It occurs when the level fo technology becomes so great that machines do all the dirty work (i.e. growing crops, making clothes) and humanity can devote itself to higher, sophisticated pursuits, like drama or science. It is originally a state of peace, not war. There is no money in a society. There is no government, because everyone can do what they want to do. So bleak compared to Orwell's paranoia. Communism is too often regarded as the "bad thing." Nobody really understands it. Did Orwell? The fact that he was once a member of the Communist Party makes no difference. As Richard Wright pointed out, Americans in that party hardly understood it either.
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Summary: Not an apocalyptic prophesy
Review: This book is an excellent book but it has been misinterpreted. It is a warning of what could happen, not what is inevitable.
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Summary: It was different...
Review: I enjoyed reading this book, although it did seem a little corrupted. It makes me appreciate what I have in life. I certainly wouldn't want people watching me 24/7, let alone disappearing for what I think because of the Thought Police. I encourage anybody to read it if they can.
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Summary: This book was definetly one of the best, ever to be written
Review: George Orwells, 1984, was an astonishing book, it gave an insight to what might be, if the totalitarian, reign had made it;s way to England. His style of writing was very unique and appealing, and the views he managed get across, were extremley profound. Especially, in the end, when he losses all hope of rebillon and begins to love Big Brother, and tyurns his back on his love Julia. He surprised to hell out of me , when Mr. Charrington, and O'Brien, were actually thought police. It was a masterpiece.
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