1984

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Summary: Age 24
Review: I loved 1984! Winston Smith was the best character in literary history. With great characters such as Big Brother, Julia, O'Brien and even the hardly mentioned Katharine, (Winston's wife) this book instantly drew me in and I couldn't stop reading it. Orwell's image of life in the future shows through in our true life. Big Brother is our government. A government that constantly watches us and moniters us. In conclusion, 1984 is the best book that was ever written. DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER! DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER! DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER!

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Summary: Verisimilitude, people!
Review: I say the book is unrealistic, but that's not what I mean. It's not that his characters couldn't exist. It's more a problem of verisimilitude -- that is, he states the problem, and THEN HE DEVIATES FROM IT! The populace in 1984 -- they're supposed to be much like his "modern people" of '48. But it's just too darn blatant to make it seem real. And why is good ol' "common man" Winston disbelieving? It's thoroughly improbable. I realize he was talking about communism, but communism was a great deal subtler than that. It's nowhere near the realistic depictions of the future by science-fiction writers, but because the science-fiction writers weren't respected, and Orwell was a Prominent Social Critic, look what we're stuck with -- the paranoid fevered dream of a madman masquerading as a prophet.

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Summary: More thrilling than any Steven King book!!
Review: People always talk about books that they can't put down and 1984 is defenitly one of those books. You really feel scared for Winston throughout the entire story. It made me cringe all the times where he was sneaking around. The only thing that made it unrealistic to me was how sex and love were eliminated totally from the party. It goes against human nature. Was everybody tortured like Winston in the party to make them this way? Anyway it was a great book that makes you think

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Summary: Excellent
Review: There of course are many things wrong with this book by reading what the many critics have to say. No book is with out flaws, however, but this book still deserves 100%.

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Summary: Orwell could tell what was going to happen in the future.
Review: I liked how true this book was, even though it was written 20 years before 1984. Most of the futuristic devises that Orwell was talking about came true. Such as, the security cameras and trackers in the airport. Also, the government was prying into your personal inforamtion. I believe that the society was high tech and the government had more laws to look at a persons information. Soon, the governmnet will be able to track anybody anywhere. Also, they will be able to read a person's thoughts and ideas. If a person wanted to revolt against the government they will be able to stop him/her before they can overthrow the government.

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Summary: I realy like it & emazing that how he imagenated the future
Review: In these novel there are many actors,characters. To manintion the major actors like Winston Smith, O'Brien Mrs. Parasons,comrade Ogilvy, Mr. Charrington, Julia, were the one who make the novel very intersted to read. It is very hard to imagen to live in these kind of society,that had three kinds of people. One who control everything which is known as the Big Brother and they are the high class of Oceania society, and the other one who is manipulated by the high class ( Big Brother )known as the inner party or the middle class, and the last one of the kind that are living majority in Oceania and they are called the "Prole" or the outer party. All these stratarfication of society is because the government(Big Brother)want to controls and manipulates by any means, for example the telescreens, the newspapers, and the party people. I read it with wondering that If I was right there inside the Oceania's society, what would be like being control all the time. I even can not stand if my mother or my girl friend( whom I love the most) want to run my live. But you what is going on now a day, I thought that the telescreen and the televesion have a lot in commen to start with the TV. programmers manoipulates the people who watching the show by thew means of advertising.

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Summary: A harrowing book about the horrors of totilatarianism
Review: Poignant, scary, and doused with a sense of unignorable urgency that is not as urgent as it was when Orwell wrote it. His horrifying prophecy thankfully did not come true, but prophecies aside, "1984" is an unmistakably brilliant account of a normal man's search for "truth and decency" in a frightful, loveless world. The novel is very hard to put down, and can be not only riveting, but genuinely entertaining at times. A true empathy for the characters, Winston and Julia, stems from a humanity which they possess and a love that we can recognize, that is contrasted by Orwell to the extreme squalor and general de-humanity of their surroundings. A definite must-read, "1984" is not only a fascinating novel, but its bleak and intense imagery, its memorable characterizations, and its involving narrative will stay with the reader long after completion. My favorite part is when O'Brien places Winston in front of the mirror, shows him his decayed body, the tells him that quite certainly, he is "the last man."

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Summary: Just give it another chance
Review: I have read this book many times and have written many of my high school english papers on it and others similar to it. I must admit that this type of fiction is not right for everyone and I do believe that you have to have a very open mindset to understand it. But to all of those who gave it 3 stars or less, I implore you to consider reading it again when you are older or willing to accept a new and different way of writing about our society and our future. No, it is not the type of book to be taken at face value, or exactly as it is printed. To really understand the thoughts of Orwell you have to be able to read between the lines and make the story and its lessons plausable in any time and with any society. There are many timeless lessons here, you just have to get past the actual fictional story. Just try it again when you are more openminded about novels.

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Summary: Amazing, a chilling outlook on society in the future
Review: This book changed my outlook on the future. It made me realize what this world is coming to in terms of privacy. For someone to have written this book in the 40's and have the whole plot still be chilling today,has to be a genious!

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Summary: It is soooooo true.
Review: I am not that much of a book lover- but this one is, no doubt, the book to read. This is a stunning piece of art. The most impressive part is, to my opinion, part three in the book- where O'Brien makes Winston an 100% supporter for the Party. In this part, you can feel the pain, the panic, the screaming, and the range of anger junt under your skin. Also the flashback Winston had throughout the book where he's being selfish to his motherr and sister really touches, in some horrible-kind-of-way. My conclution- if you can handle this book, you can handle anything.