This book was one of the worst books I have ever read

[Jack]

This book was one of the worst books I have ever read and I am 64 years old. The theme was very boring and not captivating at all. The story took along time to pick up and then it went back down as soon as you started to understand it!!! Never Again!!

[rachel]

Hello Jack,

I am with you on this. Despite the accolades I struggled with it and found it a yawn.
I'd like to know what was a zinger in your opinion. For me whatever the subject, whatever the setting I am always drawn to a story that has some form of redemption in it.

[kren]

you two should go read harry potter perhaps; very easy to understand and the main character gets all the redemption he wants; oh and dont forget the quidditch!!!

[NewWorldOrder]

Frankly I prefer to read Harry Potter it's more entertaining :)

But 1984 should make people think ... but do they ?

[jokerman11k3]

I, on the other hand, think 1984 was one of the best books i've ever read. It was an accurate prediction of the future. I also found the story captivating and well told. If that book doesn't get you thinking, you haven't done enough drugs.

[rotterdam_82]

It cannot be anywhere near one of the worst books you have read. Even the underlying context should stir even the mildest feeling in all of us. Any book that provides feeling cannot be the worst you have read.

Over-reaction my friend.

[djurax]

How can you say such pittyful nonsense about THE book!!!
I don't know where you people live, but if you have never had to wait a month to eat a piece of chocolate,then you probably can say that 1984 is a dumb book!!!
Some of us have lived in circomstances similar to the ones in the book,so we understand and find it completely captivating and true!!! :flare:

[WilfulSunbeam]

I found '1984' to be highly thought provoking as it goes, and that was the aim of the book all along; to sow the seeds of doubt about our own future.

[Guida]

I have read 1984 this year, for an Informatic essay and I found it quite interesting. I was told to read Brave New World too, and that one I found boring.

[rabid reader]

I have read 1984 this year, for an Informatic essay and I found it quite interesting. I was told to read Brave New World too, and that one I found boring.

Brave New World and Great Expections I am ashamed to say are the only two books I have never finished... I am sorry, but 1984 is definatly much more etertaining. I loved this book, the symbolizm, the metaphors, the betrayal, the insight the creation of a culture of the few, brilliant, entertaining. A book though I thouht had many simularities was Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

[Aurelian]

I absolutely adored 1984, and thought it was one of the most interesting reads I'd ever had the pleasure to come across...unfortunately, I can't say the same for the Orwell novel I'm reading at the moment, Coming Up for Air. Dull and a bit slow-paced. Sigh.

[RobinHood3000]

I actually liked both Great Expectations and Brave New World, though I have yet to read 1984. I've never been one to actively dislike a book--there's always something I find enjoyable (or at least interesting) about it, and ranking them relative to each other (besides being a comparison between apples and battleships) only demeans the efforts of the author to create something worth attention in its own right.

[hanasha]

personally i didnt like the book... i couldnt get into it at first and found it really hard to stick it out and continue throught... once the first boring part is over it was much better but the ending was painful!! but it was for my school essay so if anyone could be of any help to me.... can you help me by giving me some hints as to why the book still alarms readers in 2006 when it was set 22 years ago? that is my essay question and i need some serious help!!!

[mntnbik8]

1984 is definitely still relevant to whats going on in our world today. and the book was written in 1948 so its even more amazing that it is still relevant 58 years later. With terrorism and other crap going on in our world our governments are trying to take away our basic freedoms, privacy, speech, press and other good stuff. i live in the US so i have some examples of the government tryin to take away our rights. the patriot act gives the government the power to tap our phones and basically watch us which is what Big Brother does in 1984. 1984 is basically a nightmare of what could happen if we take our freedoms for granted and allow our government to take away our freedoms in exchange for "safety." hope this helps and sorry if i sound too political. its hard not to.


"Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

[caspian]

I started read "1984" when it was in our "Book club", as I was reading online I couldn't go on with screen more than 2 chapters, decided to wait untill to get the book. (still waiting :rage: )
i don't know how right it will be to make comments based on 2 first chapters, but i didn't find anything about future, it was the real life what soviet people had at the time of Stalin, especially at 1937. many people were killed or arrested for being accused to be against the system in that year. People were scared even to think about certain subject. I think Orwell just based on that in 1948. and Big brother with his moustache is prototype of Stalin .

[Contradict]

This book was one of the worst books I have ever read and I am 64 years old. The theme was very boring and not captivating at all. The story took along time to pick up and then it went back down as soon as you started to understand it!!! Never Again!!
...did you read the entire book? When i started reading this i thought it was horrid nonsense, but if you keep dealing with the rather dull story and get to the theory such as Goldstein's book near the end, this book delivers. The problem is that it's really boring; even the climax isnt all that great or at all unpredictable. That isn't the idea or the point of the book anyway, though. Read it for the theories-understand each party slogan, understand Newspeak, the figureheads, etc. Orwell makes some really good point's that not only make most readers compare it to today, but most of it is concrete reasoning you can apply to any study of government or social science. ;)

[TBtheG]

I enjoyed 1984, it was thought provoking time passer, and I've ingested my fair share of psychedelics so maybe thats why I liked it, i dunno.

[Chinaski]

First read it when I was 13 and read it three or four times since. With respect, I think to say it is a bad book goes beyond having no taste and into the realms of completely lacking any sort of awareness. That isn't meant to be offensive, just the truth!

[optimisticnad]

1984 isn't so bad. I guess everyone will have mixed feelings towards, for example is it a warning or prediction? Orwell himself admitted that the book would have been more...optimistic (?) if he wasn't so ill. But i like the rhyme or is it song: Under the chestnut tree, I betrayed you and you betrayed me...
is that how it goes?

I like his view of love, it isn't enough to just say it, we all love someone, but how many of us would stay loyal to the one we love in Room 101??? Raises some very deep and meaningful questions about nature of love.

[PadreMellyrn]

The reason that the "book" seems so dull, is it reflects the world in which it takes place; look hard at the settings, post war - everything is dull and grey, no one has any hope, the life is slowly being crushed out of the world. It is not meant to be "Uplifting and Interesting", it is meant to frighten and depress.

If nothing else, read the appendix about the newspeak - many people totally miss that the "newspeak" and the "Doublethink" are what is happening now. In particular look at the "B Vocabulary".

"For the purposes of everyday life it was no doubt necessary, or sometimes necessary, to reflect before speaking, but a Party member called upon to make a political or ethical judgement should be able to spray forth the correct opinions as automatically as a machine gun spraying forth bullets."

This is what we see now, in the Media - a pol spits out words, which everyone knows what they are supposed to mean, but no one thinks of what was said - thus we have the Six Second Sound bite, and fantastical named iniatives which mean nothing but sound wonderful. Many people fail to realise that 1984 was not the year it all started in; even in the book, he makes it clear that this has been happening for a number of years now - the date is merely to show what year it is in Winstons life.

[uhehee]

i couldn't agree more, still in a different way, it was quite disappointing that the author value the human spirit as nothingness.

for your reason, you haven't been reading it carefully or focused on finishing the book rather than taste every words of it. it was quite plausible the way Orwell drew the totalitarian society. i could not have any word, or obejections and the mistakes on the system of the party, it was too perfect? i guess.

[PadreMellyrn]

The party is in fact not perfect, but the people like O'Brian believe it so, and thus they work to further the cause. The enventual end will be the collapse of the world back to the savagery of the cave man, as soon or later the proles will collapse, and one thing the party can not survive without, is the people to do the manual laber for them.

But the idea was not to show the party was 'perfect' and would rule for a thousand years (the basic Reich) but that people can and do believe in such things - power for powers sake, torture for tortures sake, and they do what they think they must to keep it.

[tendayi]

Though when I first picked up 1984 I did find it quite trying to keep interest, once I had read in2 it I really could not put it down. It was written in a time when had England and her allies not won ww2 and the way in which Russian communism began, 1984 could have been a reality. It also gives the reader a sense of their own freedom by entering a world where there is none.
-Tendayi

[Chinaski]

Changed my first message; I was 13 not 23 - just to clarify.

[Mojophonious]

This book was one of the worst books I have ever read and I am 64 years old. The theme was very boring and not captivating at all. The story took along time to pick up and then it went back down as soon as you started to understand it!!! Never Again!!



so ... "Hit the Road, Jack!" It's not the best book in the world; along with Brave New World, these two can be quite gloomy, but it's still damn good writing. Have you read anything about the shape Orwell (real name was Eric Blair) was in when he wrote it? During the torture sequences, he was actually looking in the mirror at his own decaying form as he was dying from tuberculosis and other complications ... he was actually holding up a mirror and showing the world what was happening to him. you dig that, right?

[gilthas]

1984 was one of the best books i've ever read, other than "The Hitler Virus" by the late Peter Wyden, and "Ghetto in Flames, the destruction of Vilna Jewry".
It is a masterwork of our time, and shame on all of you who said that it was an awful book!!!

[oak_jam]

When 1984 was written, the ideas were fresh and to some, a shock - people could see the vision could be true and looked at the world in a different way.

Today, the term '1984' has become widespread and books, films and general thinking dealing with the issues are common. So, it is easy to look at this book as a just another in the genre, but of course it was ground breaking in its time, and the now-called 'boring parts' were themsleves a revelation.

[F.Emerald]

What nonsense! 1984 is an amazing piece of literature, in so many ways and on so many levels. Orwell tackles a major issue (the dangers of a totalitarian state), and does so wonderfully, especially considering that this was written in the 1940s, and yet, is still a new and frightening concept that we can relate to even now.

[Turk]

People's opinion can change depend on their personality and ages. I personally think 1984 is a good novel too. But on the other hand, like almost all Orwell novels it's completely depressive and hopeless. If someone doesn't like this kind of themes, he won't likes Orwell novels.

[MissDay7000]

I have to say that I agree with many of the others: I don't understand any dislike of this book, mainly because I see it coming on the horizon for this world, believe it or not, the Earth's an evil place and Orwell's books shows us a bit of forshadowing in his time can also be forshadowing in our time as well.

MissDay

[Dancer4life]

I have to say that I agree with many of the others: I don't understand any dislike of this book, mainly because I see it coming on the horizon for this world, believe it or not, the Earth's an evil place and Orwell's books shows us a bit of forshadowing in his time can also be forshadowing in our time as well.

MissDay


MissDay
yes you see it coming on in the world now but even before now it has still been here orwell is so right with many of his predictions i mean look the government can zoom in on our houses, theres videocameras in school and that happened a couple years ago but i know in my school we keeping getting more so yes it is happening but it has happened a while ago too. so it justs keeps getting worse:eek2: whats next? well will we ever be able to trust in our society?:confused:

[weightgirl]

From my point of view I thought this book was amazing. I agree it took awhile to pick up but once you start understanding its very intresting because some of this is happening to us right now. I don't think the government should have the right to tap our phones or put up a million video cameras on the street corners because we have the right to privacy. Orewell was trying to make the point we all have rights.

[ennison]

It's probably cathartic to get ones gripes off ones old chest but might be more interesting to say what books you do like. When Orwell was writing '1984' in Jura he was dying and maybe the low-key tone of hopelessness before power has some connection with his own physical condition as well as the damaged cities and rationing of post-war UK. That may be something that a modern reader finds depressing, therefore boring. It didn't bore me.

[Buda24]

i agree tat this book is vary hard to understand yet i have not finished the book i have not gotten on the train

[themaninblack]

:brickwall What were you thinking when you said this is the worst book you have ever read? This is a great book, at least so far, because it tells about what this world is coming to. Especially how Orwell wrote this book in 1948 and predicted what would the world would be like in 1984 and he was pretty darn close.:thumbs_up The fact that Goldstein shows up on the telescreen and the people can have thier 2 minutes of hate is a brilliant idea, it really shows how the government controls the minds of people, just like in 1984, how 2 minutes of hate brings the people together and unifies them.:idea: You must have been reading the book upside down.:rage:

[Zezlar]

I agree with you a little bit Jack. The book is very hard to understand at times and is very hard to get into. Orwell although makes so many points in the book that are compared to how are life is today, and he wrote the book in 1948. So many of his points that he makes are easily shown on how some people in the world live. :)

Example: Cameras in T.Vs and in real life you can barely go into ANY store, school or mostly any place without being under surveillance.

[penelopea]

I havnt read it since I was 16 ,but remember it as an easy,informative,read.
I'm 56 and probably too intolerant to risk it again .
Its sad ,but as you get older your expectations are more demanding.
By the time I was 18 I reckoned I had read every book in the English language.........you can read anything when you are starting off .Total indiscrimination .Fantastic.

[nikechick03]

from my point of view i think you are retarded. This book is so right about everything..his perdictions for the future where correct and honeslty if you can find another book out there that is right on with everyhting then you let me know..but other than that this book is one of or the greatest books out there. :thumbs_up

[BlueTidus123]

I can agree and disagree because i'm not very far into this book to actually start judging it. The beginning i was thinking "wow this book is gonna be so BORING" but once i get into it, im hoping to at least understand the concept. i can understand that Orwell is making a lot of valid points in this book and i will probably find out more as i continue reading.

I'll talk to you guys later!

~BlueTidus123

[revracer224]

i thought that this was a bad book at first but it seems to get interesting after 30 or 40 pages. although i havent finished the book I think it is worth reading

[BlueTidus123]

Well, now im further into the book, and its starting to SLIGHTLY get better to the fact that i can start to understand it a little more than my last post. I still cant judge this book so i guess I'll have 2 continue on.. Its definitely showing that Orwell is making many different predictions, and most of them are DEAD ON. Theres alot of those "ringing the bell" moments when Orwell is dead on and this book was written in 1948! Well, Im out TTYL


~BlueTidus123
:) :) :) :) :) :) :)

[Jolly McJollyso]

Brave New World and Great Expections I am ashamed to say are the only two books I have never finished... I am sorry, but 1984 is definatly much more etertaining. I loved this book, the symbolizm, the metaphors, the betrayal, the insight the creation of a culture of the few, brilliant, entertaining. A book though I thouht had many simularities was Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Brave New World is like 150 pages. Just push through it, man.

[angel_eyez20081]

At first, when i started reading this book, i thought it was going to be boring. But now i have gotten into the book. Its more interesting. I guess you just have to give it time. So anyhow, I think its a good book so far because its about the government and how things are kinda reflecting now. Like in 1984 they were under complete survellence pretty much, and thats whats happening to us now, there are cameras and survellance everywhere you turn.

[seattlegrace90]

Well in the beginning i thought it was boring too but i have got to read it more and i actually think it is a good book so far. But i still have more to read and i think it will get better.:wave:

[Chava]

I actually really liked Brave New World! I recall reading it on a train, whilst listening to Procol Harum on my mp3... then, as the main characters are hovering above the sea, a scene that is so beautifully described, the girl, a product of her time perhaps, turns on the radio, because the silence is too quiet, and to compensate the music creates a barrier between the two.
I remember looking up, and noticing that all ten of the people in that train cart where wearing headphones. I remember discreetly switching of my music, and trying to relate to the world around me...

I really liked both these books

[King of Frogs]

Quite frankly, I think you were reading the wrong 1984, Jack, because I cannot understand how anyone with half a brain could not have even been slightly interested in the content of theis book. It's theories and portayal of totalitarianism are spot on and interesting, and even if that doesn't interest you, the age-old story of two people trying desperatly to overcome unbeatable odds is one which should arouse some kind of empathy in you. I suggest reading it again, and this time really concentrate on what is being said, you may find out what we're all talking about here.

[seattlegrace90]

I do find it remotely interesting, I am glad that I do understand it, and I think that's why people don't like it because they don't or don't take the time to understand it. Many people in my English class say they don't like it, but I think it's because they don't understand it, or are too lazy to try to understand, and they just complain to me ,and I HATE it, it's like " hello take three seconds and read it and don't come crying to me, because I do understand it, and if you don't this far into the book that's not my problem. ( WOW sorry guys didn't mean to go off on a rant, I guess I'm just stressed today)

[angel_eyez20081]

haha. it definately takes more than 3 seconds to read seattlegrace90. it takes times to just sit down and read it and comprehend things and analysize this book. But your right, why complain, if they dont read it, or take the time to do so.

[Tasartir]

I'm with those who think 1984 is one of the best books they've read, it's a harrowing experience!

[Starstruck1445]

this book was boring to me to as it delt with a lot of political issues...proles, big brother, world war 1 kind of things!! im just a teenager i wasnt interested at all...but i did learn a few things about society back in the day that i did not know before i read the book!! maybe when im older i will chose to read the book again and will find understanding in it....right now i lost interest.

[seattlegrace90]

this book was boring to me to as it delt with a lot of political issues...proles, big brother, world war 1 kind of things!! im just a teenager i wasnt interested at all...but i did learn a few things about society back in the day that i did not know before i read the book!! maybe when im older i will chose to read the book again and will find understanding in it....right now i lost interest.

FYI it's World War two kind of stuff, just thought I'd let you know:D

[TTSAFB]

I understand what your saying about 1984 the book was very difficult for me to comprehend. I understood the book when someone was explaining it to me but when i started reading it again i got completely lost but alltogether it was an ok book. :brow:

[liesl]

i remember choosing to read 1984 for leisure after having done a practice paper on dystopian literature for english language. i loved every moment of it and found it made me become more politically minded (which helped in sociology). i havent read it in many years but i have already decided to write my dissertation on dystopian literature with much focus on 1984 and other major texts such as Brave New World and The Handmaids Tale.

the only slight dislike i can have with these books are the endings, i find myself mentally willing the characters on to smash the system and overthrow the government and am always immensely upset that they fail. Though i understand that these failures are necessary to highlight the horror of an unbreakable all-controlling future government.

[chubbs213]

read animal farm, its slightly easier to read but says about the same thing

[braniac2read]

the reason i hate this book was becuase when they were released i thought theyd have sex on the spot. because now they were allowed. they picked betrayel over love. how come they couldnt forget there diffrences. it was like their love ment nothing. :flare: i whanted a good ending i guess my hopes were to high.

[bazarov]

the reason i hate this book was becuase when they were released i thought theyd have sex on the spot. because now they were allowed. they picked betrayel over love. how come they couldnt forget there diffrences. it was like their love ment nothing. :flare: i whanted a good ending i guess my hopes were to high.
Their love did meant something, but Party had to win; killing every piece of good and humanity in society.

[B-Mental]

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[braniac2read]

:flare: im pissed off. how come after julia and winston got released they wouldnt fall in love again. Nobody would care anymore. How come they couldnt just forget their problems? it was like their love ment nothing anymore.:flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare:

[braniac2read]

Their love did meant something, but Party had to win; killing every piece of good and humanity in society.
i guess your right. But when winston prooved o'brien wrong about still lovining julia i thought he wouldnt betray her.Falling in love is the humen condition you cant stop that because thats what every body starts to feel. I dont whant the party to win. but if the party let them fall in love how come they couldnt think and remeber the seacret meetings and stuff? and forget who betrayed who it wasnt their falt it was o' brien and the thought police.

[Scheherazade]

the reason i hate this book was becuase when they were released i thought theyd have sex on the spot.I hear persistent long term torture is not very good one's libido!

:p

[braniac2read]

I hear persistent long term torture is not very good one's libido!

:p

Its not that. its that the ending was 2 painfull...........:(

[me_07]

i read 1984 which i think was preety interesting book.. i love de way the situation tht's set in story but i think it takes preety long when it gets to conclusion n some chapters r preety much bouring n concludes nothing basically and i hate the end of story...ne ways it was fun reading:lol:

[LazarusLong]

WHAT ARE YOU MAD!!!
1984 is one of the greatest books, its their to make you ask yourself is soceity to Big Brotherly? Its their as a written line of when a soceity has gone to far! IF anyone hates this book i seriously beleive you dont have a brain

[sharpe123]

It's the best book i've read

[braniac2read]

you two should go read harry potter perhaps; very easy to understand and the main character gets all the redemption he wants; oh and dont forget the quidditch!!!

your both wrong. this book made you feel something and it also made you question.orwell is inspiring and this book is the best book i have ever read.......:flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare: :flare:

[braniac2read]

...did you read the entire book? When i started reading this i thought it was horrid nonsense, but if you keep dealing with the rather dull story and get to the theory such as Goldstein's book near the end, this book delivers. The problem is that it's really boring; even the climax isnt all that great or at all unpredictable. That isn't the idea or the point of the book anyway, though. Read it for the theories-understand each party slogan, understand Newspeak, the figureheads, etc. Orwell makes some really good point's that not only make most readers compare it to today, but most of it is concrete reasoning you can apply to any study of government or social science. ;)

what are you talking about. it may have been boring to you but any book can be boring. this book was inspiration and people around the world have questions and comments about it the way they think and feel and the questtions they have about it. if this was writen along time ago then why are people still writing about the book thats how great it is this book is ONE OF THE GREATEST BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ. THAT GOES FOR THE MAN WHOS 64 im only 13 and i didnt find it boring....;) ;

[braniac2read]

i loved this book it wanst boring.it made me think of the humen condition. and it was one of orwells best written books.

[Nossa]

I read the book like two months ago, and I didn't hate it..but can't say I'm a big fan of it either. I love 'Animal Farm" more, even though it was for studying..while 1984 was for pleasure. I can honestly say that our world now is nowhere near perfection, but the novel's world was WAY too gloomy. I understand that the fact that the book was written in the 1940s and people are still talking and discussing it till now, it makes the novel good, but not the best novel ever. I'm used to boring books, so it doesn't matter, sure thing that the author never found it boring, and so it must have had something in it, something that someone thought was worth reading, and that's my philosophy in reading any book. For this novel, I believe that the idea of the "Big Brother" was the catchy part, though it was presented in a rather dull form and plot, it still is an everlasting idea, will last as long as there's politics and politicians...
So bottom line is, 1984 wasn't as boring as other books I've read, at least it had a good idea included, I just wished it was written in a better way, that's all...in an "Animal Farm" kind of style, if you know what I mean.

[healthyalt]

I really enjoyed 1984 and Brave New World. They both opened my eyes to see what was actually going on around me. Both stories are to the extreme but not total lies.

[BobFlag]

A book ,like music, is a personal journey for first the Author then the reader. I recall this as being the first book that shocked me. I first read it some 20 years ago I was 13 (ish) and it was the first book that shattered my naivety. I fevently hoped that the revolution was going to happen and the good guys would win through. A natural enough expectation after being brought up on a diet of hollywood "it'll be alright in the end guys" culture. It took me to the depths of despair as Winston was captured and tortured and I became ever more anxious as the remaining pages became fewer and fewer. Unable to relinquish my conviction that the revolution was coming I began to wander how the author was going to pull this one out of his *** in so few pages..... then it happened, Winston started crying in the Chestnut tree cafe and it simply ended. It was the first piece of serious literature I had ever written an it left me simply stunned. I have just finished watching the film adaptation and it has brought it all back. Not fun, not particularly enjoyable but undeniably brilliant.

[johnfsomers]

This book was one of the worst books I have ever read and I am 64 years old. The theme was very boring and not captivating at all. The story took along time to pick up and then it went back down as soon as you started to understand it!!! Never Again!!

Jack, could you possibly be more specific about 1984?

JS

[Emil_Huseynov]

I would like to notice that there are many so-called "mechanical" and inharmonious elements in the book. And it is impossible otherwise for the books of the fantastic genre. A writer can not live in the fabulous world about which he writes, and empathize all emotions about what he writes.
Therefore "1984" has so many discrepancies. Nevertheless "1984" is my the best book I have ever read.

[Emil_Huseynov]

I started read "1984" when it was in our "Book club", as I was reading online I couldn't go on with screen more than 2 chapters, decided to wait untill to get the book. (still waiting :rage: )
i don't know how right it will be to make comments based on 2 first chapters, but i didn't find anything about future, it was the real life what soviet people had at the time of Stalin, especially at 1937. many people were killed or arrested for being accused to be against the system in that year. People were scared even to think about certain subject. I think Orwell just based on that in 1948. and Big brother with his moustache is prototype of Stalin .
You should learn history of that period - the thirties, and compare it with other dictators. Only 0,5 percent of the USSR population of that time, so-called enemies of the people, were purged.

[all about me]

woow some of you guys really exited me to bye that book

[kelby_lake]

1984 is a really good book and lots of stuff from it is in today's culture! just because you (person who started this) didn't like it doesn't make it a bad book.

[flambeaux]

Even before reading this book, I was fascinated by the title "1984." It grabbed attention to me right away. Plus when i finished reading it, i found it very true. I think this book was one of the best convincing books ive ever read.

[Phauszzie]

In my opinion this book was pretty good. the part i like the best was the part about goldsteins book. that was pretty cool.

[Etienne]

Edit: Wrong thread...

[Enjoi.]

I'm on the other side of this argument; I am finding this book to be very interesting, the way Orwell can write satires on society without knowing what the future will hold seems to be genius. Though I don't enjoy the way the book reads, it seems to skip around a lot and reads very flatly. Compare this book to today's society and you may see the true genius of Orwell's writing.

[The Atheist]

I'm on the other side of this argument; I am finding this book to be very interesting, the way Orwell can write satires on society without knowing what the future will hold seems to be genius. Though I don't enjoy the way the book reads, it seems to skip around a lot and reads very flatly. Compare this book to today's society and you may see the true genius of Orwell's writing.

Good stuff!

Having lived in most of the decades since it was published, it's noticeable that every generation has its own take on Orwell. During the Cold War, lots of kids saw NATO/USSR/China as the three powers.

It is a flat read; all of Orwell's stuff is the same. He sure wasn't a happy man.