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Summary: How my sanity was comprimised.
Review: This book was the greatest read of my negative utopia period. In high school, between watching the JROTC guys (myself somewhat included) get brainwashed, the first season of the X-Files, and other books like Zamatin's IT and Huxley's Brave New World, I was a little skittish. I chose to leave the genre behind me.
Definitly a read. It will make you question your surroundings.
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Summary: Depressing, dark, complicated, yet one of the best books...
Review: Conspirisy therories aside, Orwell's prolific masterpiece '1984' tells of the struggle to remain human when faced with insurmountable odds. Orwell's unique vison, formed in the desperation of post-war Europe in 1947, descibes a future in which a totalitarism government controls all. The main character, Winston, is not set up to be a likeable, hopeful, hero-type protagonist, but rather, is created in the image of all men. He loses hope, attempts to fight the system with small rebellion of his own, and fails miserably, as anyone would under the circumstances. His affair with a woman is the subject of censure in many reviews of this book, but again, it was not set up to portray a loving, human relationship, but to serve as irony in it's most bitter form. When love, honor, compassion, and other words of that calibure are erased from the human vocabulary, you have 1984. And Orwell's vision may serve as the correct one. People today lose their humanity with alarming swiftness, and we are faced with the simple choice Winston must make: fight or flee. Fight Big Brother and the government, or flee the mind and become another faceless drone like other characters in the story. While depressing, this novel also raises some interesting questions. I recommend this book to anyone who has ever questioned the fate of the human race. In short, everyone should read this book.
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Summary: I am 14 years old
Review: This is the best novel i`ve ever read!!
It is a fine book.
It makes you think about the world today.
(it did for me.)
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Summary: War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.
Review: This book has given me inspiration to write two websites on politics and given me a new outlook on the world. I STRONGLY recommend that you read this! This is a wonderful book! READ IT!!!
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Summary: Best book I've ever read. More classic than Homer's Odyssey
Review: 1984 will go down in the history books as being one of the milleniums best books. In my opinion, it is as classic as the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Bible. It is nothing short of a masterpiece, written by a masterfull author. The hopeless and deeply depressing concepts and social conditions so eliquently described in this book are almost uncomprehensable in modern times. This book is a call to carefully monitor federalistic endeavors in the future for the betterment of humankind.
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Summary: When 2+2 doesn't equal 4
Review: The prophecy, the nightmare, the year, the state of mind,the way of being, and yes, the classic novel itself are what 20th century intellectuals associate with George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Although this is how the book is perceived by most, the saga of character Winston Smith placed in an oppressive world ruled by the totalitarian perils of "Big Brother," stands for more than just a year, or the political nightmare, Nineteen Eighty-Four signifies now. Nineteen Eighty-Four indicates the thoughts deep down inside one of us that denote our weakening of individuality and the wrath of group will that exploit this abatement. All of our trust in authority dissolves when the empty darkness of "massmindness" and "doublethink" swells by Orwell's amazing insight.
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Summary: Another tenner
Review: As the plot has already been summarized by all the other online-reviewers, I will put this simple and straight: I worship this book. Tell your grandchildren!
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Summary: Very thought-provoking; deep.
Review: I recently finished 1984, and I thought it was pretty cool. I was pulling for Winston and Julia all along, and I even had some doubts about O'Brien. I think Orwell's written a very political, social, economically minded book, that says some very important things about government control and oppression. Walter Cronkite's preface explains the book as a warning, and a successful one at that since our world has yet to fall into the depressing reality of Orwell's vision. I was disturbed, intrigued, and confused by the book, and it's prompted me to consider many different aspects of our present society, such as Newspeak and Doublespeak, governmental influences, and societal forces. Thanks Goeroge.
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Summary: War is Peace
Review: This is the best book that I have read. Orwell gets into the mind of the reader and makes him think about every thought he gets. I know that I will never think the same after having read this book. And to that guy from California, first of all learn how to spell and secondly, I didn't count the number of reviews posted but at least 90% rate this book as a ten or nine, and you are the only person that gave it a one.
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Summary: VICTORY GIN!
Review: "He who controls the presant, controls the past, he who controls the past controls the future.." this book tells how the government can pull the wool over ones eyes If the dont be carefull. when I heard the slogans:WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORENCE IS STRENGTH I thought of the corrupt society it is. war is peace means that you have the target to kill so dont think just do.freedom is slavery means that when you have somany choices that your enslaved by them for example: "One hamburger please." server says "would you like fries with that?" person says no "perhaps a large drink?" no "ketchup?" When all you wanted was a hamburger! Ignorance is strength means that the more people who dont know something, the more people will be afraid of it. Hence the more people that will rise against it.
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