Although 1984 made a very good point about the government, and George Orwell got a lot right, I would not recommend this book to anyone. In my opinion you get the concept of the book by the time your halfway through and reading the rest is basically pointless because you don't learn anything new. I found most of the book to be quite boring and if it was up to me I would have stopped reading it after the first page. Also, I found that a majority of the time I would have finished reading a page and not even understand what I just read. I think that if I were to have read this book in college I would have enjoyed it more than reading it in high school.