1984

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Summary: Simply Amazing
Review: While the future of what O'Brian said the Party was trying to achieve is ridiculous, what it has already achieved is sadistic and depressing enough. This novel takes you up to thinking the Party will one day be overthrown and then crushes all ambitions of it, best novel i've ever read

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Summary: What are you thinking?
Review: This book is a true classic. There's a lot more to this novel than what is on the surface level. It's not that it's a true outlook on what 1984 was actually like but it's a look at humanity and what civilization could be (is) like. It's best put as a "negative utopia -- not dramas of what life could be ... but nightmares of what it is becoming." I reccomend reading Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton after reading this novel. That will truely show you that this nightmare that Orwell has envisioned is a reality in parts of our world.

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Summary: Classic, but dull
Review: I thought that 1984 was a pretty good book, except that I think it would have been better if I would have read it before 1984. The begining was dull and kind of boring, but I thought that ending was pretty good. I recomend it because it shows what could happen in the future if the government ever got a lot of power.

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Summary: 1984: The most brilliant political treatise ever written
Review: Brilliant, simply brilliant. I will resist the temptation to make my review the shortest one here by saying that I think that 1984, for all of its literary value must be regarded as one of the greatest literary works of all time. The way in which George Orwell composes his purposeful sentences makes us reminisce of the style of Daniel Defoe. Here is a book, similar to Brave New World and We which shows what we may be coming to. A definite read. I couldn't put it down for a moment.

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Summary: It IS Happening!
Review: I disagree entirely with the review from "Chinaman"--not only is this a great story, but it IS happening in his country--and has been since 1949--that's the whole point! Substitute "The Great Helmsman" for "Big Brother", and you have a picture perfect portrait of Red China.

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Summary: It was a good book with an unfortunate ending.
Review: The entire book was good up until the last chapter, at least in my opinion. Without giving out the ending, I didn't feel that Orwell used the characteristics of his character well. Maybe I'll need to re-read the book to understand the true meaning of the book because I didn't get it in my first try. However, the book was well put together overall with very strong characters and a strong plot. It's scary if "Oceania" ever became the world of today.

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Summary: "A magnificent '6-Star' book"
Review: This is truly a spectacular composition, possibly the best work of George Orwell. The setting and the characters are so vivid and believable that you will not be able to put the book down until you finish. Full of suspense and surprise, it serves as a parody within an infinite moralic story. Readers who have enjoyed "Animal Farm" and "Coming up for Air" should not miss reading this classic masterpiece.

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Summary: A great book, i read it awhile ago, but a GREAT book
Review: Most of the people here are right, this book is NOT a prophecy. But the few who gave this book a bad review, say, one star, are mostly either trying to sound avant-garde, or give stupid reasons such as "I like books that make me feel good". Well that's your problem and it shouldn't affect your review of a book, that's like a film critic who doesn't like comedies giving a comedy a bad review for that reason. This makes no sense, because it's not that you feel they are bad, it is just that they don't interest you. Please be a bit better about this...

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Summary: Excellent book!
Review: A must read for anyone. Makes one think about one's situation with governing bodies.

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Summary: Not just cheap propaganda!
Review: I've read the book and found not only fun in it, but also deepness and complex political explanations. It is not only propaganda against communism, cause as everybody knows Orwell, in fact, liked communism ideals. It shows how individualism is smashed in a totalitarian society. I also recomend the animation movie AntZ. As many have seen it is not meant for kids...