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Summary: Who is Big Brother????
Review: In 1984, Everything you do, everywhere you go can be detected an analysed. Some might say the tracking device built in to the new "Pentium III" processors which can report on where you visited and snitch on what you like to buy, is a step in this direction.
Don't accept the popular view, look at ALL the evidence and make your own and die defending the right for you and others to do so.
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Summary: "Sanity is not statistical"
Review: 1984, To us a year past; to mankind, an unwanted future.
Who are you if not your own thoughts, memories and emotions? What is man without love?
"1984" shows us clearly that humanity is the freedom to say "2+2=4" and the freedom to believe it. The book portarys a dark future for mankind where there is no past except that written by the rulers, mankind has no free thought and all basic vestiges of the human spirit have been systematically "cut out and cauterised" to serve one purpose, that the "party" should 'freeze time' so that they can rule totally and brutally for ever with the object of power for powers sake.
What if you feel you are the last vestige of humanity, but everything you do, everyone you speak to every twitch or drop of nervous sweat your body makes can be seen, heard and analysed. Where your only refuge is inside your own head and even then the thought police have just one objective, to track you and those like you down and to create you again in their own image.1984- A future where humanity is not human, love is forbidden and power over others is enough reason in itself for having it.
Beware- "Big Brother is Watching You."
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Summary: Intruiging look at Big Brother diminishing thought.
Review: This was an excellent book, and I recommend this to everybody. It held me in suspense till the very end. The way it makes you think emotional and psychologically about the love of Winston and Julia, and how Big Brother destoryed it. The mutual trust between Winston and the man he trusted and how it was broken, and the pain he suffered more mentally than physically really make you think. After reading this book, I am sure you will be pondering its agenda and reality for time to come, and you will learn to think of your own life and freedom. I recommend also "Animal Farm" by George Orwell Also an excellent look at communism.
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Summary: Thoughtful, Horrific, Timeless
Review: George Orwell's masterpiece, 1984, is a thoroughly astonishing look at a dystopian future- a "negative utopia" where free thought is a crime punishable by death. Winston Smith, an allusion both to Winston Churchill and to the common man (Smith being the most common English last name), is a member of the Outer Party of the Republic of Oceania, and lives in London. His job is the rewriting of past records for the further glorification of "Big Brother", a figurehead that has come to be synonomous with any activity of invasion of privacy by our own government. Stripped of the simplest rights, like the right to free speech or the right to record any events or possess any records of the past, 1984 is the story of Winston's struggle to overturn both Big Brother and the ideas that he stands for. This book won't fail to impress, nor to depress- thoroughly sad at many different levels.
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Summary: Chilling Book!!!!
Review: It is hard to belive that a totalitarian government can happen, People say it can't, but in truth it has. George Orwell's book has almost in a cense read the future. Take what happened in Stazi Germany, it is identical. And i belive that anyone who can guess at the future like that and be so right is deserving of some complement. And for the people out there who think that the readers of this book are all paranoied they are wrong. Read this book and then take a look around, how close are we really?
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Summary: You will LOVE IT!! I you like George Orwell, READ IT!!!!
Review: Fantastic!! This is a terrific novel for those who enjoy science-fiction. George Orwell uses satire to portray warfare as being "the norm" for the future. I would recomend this novel for people who wanted to see how others viewed the future in the past.
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Summary: frightening vision of how the world could have been
Review: Without a doubt, 1984 has to be one of the most intriguing books I have ever read. The frightening effects that totalitarian governments can have on the world are played out to the fullest extent in this book. Once I started reading, I couldn't put it down!
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Summary: The Political Paranoids' "Gospel of Orwell"
Review: Orwell is one of the most overrated novelists of this century. He's nothing more nor less than a second-rate hack who profiteered by preying on the worst fears of modern man. Today, his book is the modern bible of the paranoid disgruntled white male and other conspiracy nutcases. Yet another fairy tale, albeit a grown-up one, warns us to LOOK OUT for that proverbial boogy man--Big Brother, in this case, being the latest in a long line of aliases he goes under. Perhaps Orwell's "Newspeak" should include these additions: "Propaganda is Truth"; "Truth is Absolute"; "Freedom springs from Fear"; "Extremism is Virtue." This book has never made anyone stop to think, but, instead, to fear and hate one more faceless abstraction. Contemporary paranoia gets a much more powerful portrayal in the works of Thomas Pynchon, such as "The Crying of Lot 49." At least IT has the virtue of being well written.
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Summary: Good, but scary
Review: The first time I read this, it scared the heck out of me, and I thank god that this did not happen in 1984, or anyother year for that matter. This is a chilling and scary look at a futuristic tolitarinism (I don't think I spelled that right) society. This book is written so well that once you get started, you can't put it down. Great book!
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Summary: Political correctness, the new Ingsoc!
Review: The book 1984 is undoubtedly on of the greatest books of all times and deals with many issues today. It covers areas such as privacy, alteration of the english language and freedom of thought. As the government in 1984 used Ingsoc to alter the meaning of words and limit them to total neutrality, so do the mondern day politicaly correct. The alteration of language is an alteration of thought and it is wrong. I recommend the book "Straight and Crooked Thinking" by T.H. Thouless to gain a true understanding of the english languge and how it affects the way we think.
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