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Read it again in 10 years.

[Unregistered]

I read this book when I was 14, and I totally agree with you that there is too much sex in the book. However, I don't agree with you about the book being a waste of time just because it has a depresseing ending. The end is what makes the book gripping and powerful--it wouldn't be nearly as good if they "all lived happily ever after."

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The world is full of sex and violence, get used to it

[daniel]

i'm sorry for your friend but that is the effect that the book is meant to have, it shows you how a totlitarian state of living would destry everything that western culture stands for, this book is a distopoia dont expect a happy story, dont expect a happy end, you wont find one, you will find raw amazing ideas, as has been sugested to you before, read it again in ten years, you obviously were not mature enough for it when you read it the first time.

[Brooke]

I think what you said is completely opposite of the truth. The book puts ideas of how your life could have been turned or will be turned due the the feeling of power. As a 17 year old senior we were forced to read this book but it something that really opens your mind. If this book wasn't around we couldn't appreciate what we have to watch out for our own future. And life is full of sex and violence, it is around us everyday, especially in high school.

[Bubba Hyde]

I think that as sophmores in High School, we should not be forced to read books such as 1984. Yes, I know, all you adults out there say "you students are the future." I totally agree with that. But does a 15 year old need to be reading this awful stuff? The whole book was filled with sex and violence. One girl that was in my class, a good frined of mine, had nightmares about the part where Winston was about to get his face eaten by rats. By the way, she HATES rats. And at the end, when Winston and Julia just sit there, it's because they have no feeling. Not only is it no feelings for each other, or no love for each other any more, but they have no feelings about anything. All they are there for is the breath, work for the party, "love" (which I do not see how they could do since they have no feelings) Big Brother, and die. It is because they have been stripped of their feelings. Yes, it is a good lesson, because we wouldn't want our government to go to this. So we "future" people can tell that we don't want this. I just think that this book was a waste of our time, and our teachers time.