1984

[xifthisislovex]

have any of you read this book this is like the "mad notes" it's written by george orwell i think in
the fifties about gonverment control and disinformation and the camera and about a never ending war of three countries. it's really good and it doesn't have a happy ending. i really loved that book i read it a couple of months ago.

[AmericanZen]

I've read it, its pretty good.

[Bishop]

I thought it was boring as hell. There were some points where things would start to pick up, but then the descriptions just carried on and on and on and on, I was just thinking "Christ, just tell me what the fuck happens now."

[richter915]

I can sum up the whole story for you.

communism = bad.

[Mercy Medical]

Read it and watched the movie my sophomore year of high school...

Frankly, I prefer Brave New World......

[WakingTheMisery]

george orwell is one of my favorite authors.

[punklet2101]

I've read it, I thought it was quite good

[WakingTheMisery]

i prefer animal farm but this book is still amazing.

[richter915]

I like brave new world a lot actually...huxley w00t!

[Reiver]

I just started reading this book.

[selftitled85]

Read it and watched the movie my sophomore year of high school...

Frankly, I prefer Brave New World......


i prefer brave new world too. but the ending to bnw pissed me off cuz i thought it had a real shitty ending. but overall it was really good.

[ohlookitspaul]

one of my favorite books.

and yes, brave new world i believe is better. if you guys haven't read anthem by ayn rand or fahrenheit 451, you guys should. similarly themed.

[dretti]

i really liked 1984

[selftitled85]

one of my favorite books.

and yes, brave new world i believe is better. if you guys haven't read anthem by ayn rand or fahrenheit 451, you guys should. similarly themed.


i liked anthem a lot. i still havent read fahrenheit 451 but i should.

[Tanooki Suit]

I can sum up the whole story for you.

communism = bad.
Actually, it's socialism. Or did you miss the huge correlation between "Ingsoc" and "English Socialism" that's even IMPLICITLY stated at many points?

And it's actually my personal favorite book. I really liked Fahrenheit 451 also. As for Brave New World, I got about 50 pages in and put it down, never to pick it back up yet. I'm apathetic like that.

[ohlookitspaul]

i've tried to read atlas shrugged like a million times and i can never do it. it's like a fucking dictionary, it's huge

[xifthisislovex]

i liked a brave new world i thought that it was different
in the way that he wrote the book a brave new world is
almost like a poem i love both books , um have anyone
of you read the book "we"?

[i like guitars]

amazing book one of my favorits after confederacy of the dunces

[xifthisislovex]

i think the whole reason behind the 1984 book was to show what happens when the
goverment tries to control life. by making the people ignorant e.i. "ignorance is strengh"
i think that some of those things are becoming true even here. in the u.s. yesterday
i was walking home and a cop stoped me pointed this bright ass light at me and
told me what was i doing he said that i was to go home and that if he saw me out
he was going to take me in, at 9:45 pm i was like wtf.

anyone had a similar expirience

[Sho]

Wow, harsh, man.

Me? I loved the book. I like the idea of all these things he suggested, and it's scary how much it has been applicable to this modern time, even after it's conception in 1948. I mean, who would think that we would hear our reason for going to war would be to protect the peace of our nation, or that we were going to give peace to a war-torn nation by warring against their dictator. "War is peace", anyone?

Sad, isn't it, that both Animal Farm and 1984 are applying as much now, if not more, than they did when they were written. The greastest writers in our century have given us warnings, and we've ignored them until we've gotten into the thick of it?