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

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

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

:p

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

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:

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

It's the best book i've read

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Originally Posted by 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!!!

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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:

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Originally Posted by Contradict

...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. ;)

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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....;) ;

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

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.

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.

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.

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Originally Posted by 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!!

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Jack, could you possibly be more specific about 1984?

JS

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.

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Originally Posted by 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 .

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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.

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

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.