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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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Summary: not Orwell's best
Review: "My recent novel is NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or the British Labour Party (of which I am a supporter) but as a show-up of the perversions to which a centralised economy is liable and which have already been partly realised in Communism and Fascism. I do not believe that the kind of society I describe necessarily _will_ arrive, but I believe (allowing of course for the fact that the book is a satire) that something resembling it _could_ arrive." (G.O., letter to Francis A. Henson, 16 June 1949) This is not Orwell's best book. I've read it three times, and never failed to be underwhelmed. Try _Down and Out in Paris and London_, _Homage to Catalonia_ or _A Collection of Essays_ for insightful writing, and stay away from the satires (the other being _Animal Farm_).
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Summary: George Orwell is masterful at capturing the truth about comm
Review: It was a very good book. I liked it a lot. I will definitly read it again and again and again.
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Summary: A TRUE MASTERPIECE IN EVERY WAY!!!
Review: Orwell says so much in so few pages. Once and a while an author comes along and writes a work of art. This is one of those times. Open your minds people,Orwell,Salinger,Golding,Huxley,Bradbury and many more. These books are truly priceless. Read and learn!!!
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Summary: Orwell is a twisted man
Review: This book wasn't bad, but it wasn't good. It was weird. It was somewhat clever. I especially enjoyed the real-life aspects of the story. (eg. Winston and Julia) N E how, I was slightly disturbed by the communism/socialism factor of Big Bro - Jewish ppl rule in various ways - and this was not one of em. I can't get a mental note of Winston, but I'm sure he was a handsome fella - too bad the lifestyle was so darn crass.
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Summary: 1984: The Unwanted (by us) Future
Review: I read this amazing book by George Orwell while I was ten (that's right, ten) for fun. I enjoyed it as much as anyone else if not more. George Orwell has an amazing talent that only so many writers posess. He expresses, very well, the things of which he predicted about the future. He wrote many wonderful books: Down and Out, in Paris and London, 1984, and lots more! George Orwell has done an amazing job in telling what the world looked like it was coming to in 1948 (when he wrote the book).
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Summary: I thought the book was great.
Review: I thought the book was good to read. It gave me an idea of how the world really could be if it wanted to. I enjoyed reading it. I kept me in suspence.
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Summary: wow!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: this has got to be the greatest book i have ever read.it kept me in suspence to the very last.it can be taken on so many levels. the best thing about it is the ending, where unlike day of the triffids or any other contemperies,there is not one glimpse of hope which is better than "they live happily ever after" BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING!!!!!
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Summary: Freedom is Slavery
Review: I read this book for fun (yeah, some of us still do that, even in the 9th grade), and it turned out to be one of my all time favorites. I love science fiction novels, and this is one that hits me on many levels. A totalitarianistic future where everything you do is monitered, even your thoughts. One wrong thought, and you could end up in Miniluv (Newspeak for the Ministry of Love). Orwell creates a world so believeable that I have dreamt about societies like that. Read this book, and always remember, Big Borhter is watching.
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