1984

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Summary: A deep reading
Review: First of all, I would like to say that I dont usually read 'fiction' books... but this one is not really fiction ...
I think you understood the main part of the story from the other reviews already...
According to me, this novel really makes you think about the world we are living in ..when discussing with friends about '1984', they told me that this book represents our future ... but I have the feeling that there is already some truth in this novel ...
When G. Orwell writes about the control of the history, and the publications .. I see some parallelism with the way our medias are controlled as well ..
This book really makes you think.. that s what I liked about it...

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Summary: One of the most memorable novels of the 20th century
Review: Its not often books like this come around and leave you up countless nights worrying about what this world will come to. 1984 may be a mainstream classic, but very seldom do we read a book (especially being a fiction piece) that is this creative, and this frightening. It came out in a time in history where Britain & the U.S. were terrified of communism. And many felt the Soviet Union was headed in this direction. Who knows? Maybe a revolution will occur and a powerful dictatorship will conquer our American soil and we will all be brainwashed and speak another language that is designed to make you think like everybody else does. This is the pure beauty about this book. It leaves your imagination running wild. Its simply a paramount in literature. Id also recommend a book called ''Anthem'',which was written before 1984.

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Summary: Book Review of "1984"
Review: "1984" is a classic novel that centralizes around the theme of what happens when human civilization has lost its innate, human qualities and is predestined to have its individuality debased even more. The author, George Orwell, conveys this throughout the context of the book by showing that the government controls virtually every aspect of human life. The main character is Winston Smith, and he is a slightly rebellious and wondering adult who questions the validity of past events and the overall value of human life.

On a scale of one to ten, I would probably rate the book an "eight" because it is a very captivating novel to explore the depths of human thought and fictionalized imagination. However, the concepts are slightly difficult to comprehend, so a person who understands the concepts of utopia would really understand the plot. I would recommend this novel to people who enjoy reading other pieces of literature by George Orwell (such as "Animal Farm" and the essay "Shooting an Elephant") because it is yet another book Orwell probes the concepts and ideas of civilization and government, and the results of corruption. I must mention that Orwell uses a direct and rebellious tone, as the plot is in perspective to the third person point of view of Winston Smith. He uses interesting diction as Orwell assumes that the reader knows the order of society in "1984." It also contains a lot of detail and imagery as he continuously describes the atmosphere of futuristic society.

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Summary: The King of the "Dystopias"
Review: I read Animal Farm in junior high and then picked up 1984 because Animal Farm was such an interesting read. Needless to say, I was not ready for the horror of 1984. Animal Farm tells the tragedy of a revolution against tyranny sliding into its own tyranny but it tells the story through the eyes of pigs and horses and dogs. 1984 not only tells the story through human eyes, but it tells a much more horrifying tale of the ease with which people with modern propaganda and technological tools can form a seemingly invincible totalitarian government with popular support.

Although this may sound a bit trite, Orwell also gives everyone reading 1984 a wake-up call about how easy it is to give away freedom and how easy it is for a government to use any decrease in people's vigilance regarding their own freedoms and turn the world into a nightmare.

One of the interesting parts of the book is the fact that the government in 1984 is creating a new language of drastically decreased vocabulary and increased technobabble that will stop people from being able to think and speak creatively or to find the words to rebel against totalitarian rule.

However, in writing the book, Orwell himself created an entirely new vocabulary to discuss overreaching and totalitarian government. Terms like "Big Brother," "thought police," "thought crime" and, to a lesser degree "double think" as well as the title of the book itself have become parts of our vocabulary in fighting against totalitarianism. Thus, in imagining a world in which the government is doing away with people's ability to speak out, Orwell helped spawn a whole vocabulary to help people protest.

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Summary: Powerful Book, A must read - again...
Review: 1984 has some of the most powerful images of totalitarian authority and lasting depictions of a world devoid of moral structure -- of any work from the 20th century. Yet, the greatest contribution of Orwell to our present day is his critique of language and it's effects via his fiction.

As O'Brian says to Winston "You're not very good at metaphysics." If you want to understand the philosophical ramifications of relativism this book is a great place to start or, if you read it in a literature class a while ago and currently have an interest in ethology, deontology, aretology, moral philosophy and ontology, a must read - again.

Morality can only be viewed as a positive, yet even now our language has begun to be distorted by subjective interpretations of our words. Example: Do we have a positive moral structure or a negative moral structure? -- There is only one *moral* structure. This book lays out the frame work of a society engineered on the basis of definition control. Vocabulary is perverted to serve the machine.

This is the world we can choose to create or destroy.

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Summary: Required Reading for every intelectual and all others!
Review: Walter Cronkite said that this story has .."a power that seems to grow rather than lessen with the passage of time."

This story is even more relevant today than it ever was. If you want to understand today's events and where we might be going- READ THIS BOOK! Any thinking person will see the relevance, all of those less cerebral should still take the time and either read or listen to the audio verion of this story.

I simply cannot emphasize enough how vital a part of your personal library this book should become.

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Summary: Stuff
Review: I agree with this review because I felt exactly the same way that he did. While I was reading the book I feared for all of humanity and the possible future. After I finished reading the book my heart also dropped. The review had a kind of half negative feel, which is how I felt. It was a great book but it just gave me a negative feeling the whole time I read it.

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Summary: One of the best novels ever written
Review: Big Brother is watching and I don't mean the reality tv series. This book is not only an interesting read, it also holds a deeper meaning. It is a window through which the possible dangers of communism/socialism in the extreme can be viewed. A comparison can also be made to Plato's idea of a utopia.
This book makes one question the validity of our own past and reality as we know it.

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Summary: Big Brother is STILL watching you.
Review: When I first read this book in high school, it effected me like no other book since. What Orwell was trying to get across was not solely the terror of despotism by the way that the spirit of man can be esily crushed by the very people we have voted into office. I highly recommend this book and dare the reader to find the similarities in our society and that of 1984.

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Summary: Dare you learn the truth?
Review: One of the most frightening and important books ever written! It is even more frightening when you realize the world Orwell imagined in his darkest nightmares is the world we live in today. You will never watch a NEWS broadcast or read a NEWS paper again without a serious doubt. Orwell was trying to tell us back then where we were heading, today is the proof we didn't listen. Every person should read this book once, before it doesn't exist anymore.....