1984

[Dolphman85]

This is my first review of a book of the second book I have read in its entirety for pleasure, sure I guess it's sad but hey, you gotta start somewhere. I read this book on my kindle for iOS and it took me 3 weeks to read, but it it was worth it. The film doesn't compare to the book although it's pretty good in itself. It really scared me how close this book was to seems to be coming to reality, and it can be applied to many other factors of life in my opinion, such as religion, homosexuality, and financial institutions even. There is really is very little freedom, and there is this huge fight to have it while the government is now even lying to us to get us to think like them as Rachel Maddow has been announcing in her show lately. Yet this book made me appreciate the fact that we can read and write to digest and express our emotions to each other it really is something we take for granted, it made me realize that I've wasted many times reading unimportant things all these years when there are so many books that open your mind and really deserve our attention. I have always wanted to be a reader but there was something scary to me about all those word letter and pages without pictures, and all the time it takes to commit to a book. I just realized the beauty of books, how clear a good book can be be that no movie can ever match. A movie of a book seems to only be a fast forward version of the real thing skipping many good details. Read this book! take it from a newby.

[mandobanjo]

1984 is one of my favorite books in the western cannon. Beautifully written, and yet so haunting. My favorite part was when Winston read the book about how the world got to it's current state. There were so many parts of that sequence that rang true with today that I got the feeling Orwell wrote 1984 largely so that he could publish the book within the book.

[Fran]

@Dolphman85 A movie of a book seems to only be a fast forward version of the real thing skipping many good details. ..... excellent

[ouzal]

1984 is the book about which I've heard the most appealing reviews to read, so for me, reading it was an unavoidable task, and despite all of the scary ideas Orwell described in it, I think this was an optimistic anticipation of how life would look like in the eighties, this is an opinion that would be shared only by people who have got the opportunity to visit some eastern countries at that time. So to answer the first question of this discussion, only in personal terms, this book is not the reference in political literature, neither the best ever written about the subject, it is just the most "iconic"

[lady_charlie]

Have you ever given the cashier your zip code and phone number before you could pay for a sweater?

Have you read The Orphan Master's Son? I don't know how real all that is exactly but it was a terrifying book.

1984 didn't happen in 1984 or 2004 but there are still places where it isn't safe to have an independent thought.

I agree the technology is catching up fast - my dog has a chip in case she gets lost.

News travels around the world in seconds.

[READING DIVA]

Wow...my son reading 198
4! He is a graduating senior! His choice..I told him that book scared me like crazy! I always used to tel them Big BROTHERS WATCHING YOU and flip it to BIGMama's Watching You

-- 25 Apr 2013, 22:17 --

Omg yes..! We both agreed that book was crazy! We were chatting. My son says can imagine, books banned? I agreed.8 said if it they were banned..we would be put to death by the Thought Police, if they knew you bought.."SECRET SOCIETIES..The Truth Revealed...by THE MEDIASOURCE.
we love discussing those interesting theories ..
Thank God so far so good..GOT BOOKS?..lol

[donniedarko]

I'll be in a minority and say I did not find this book frightening or enjoyable. I found it almost like listening to someone's conspiracies on government for hours. By the end of the book I still did'nt understand what this world was. I do get the point, yes, but I can't imagine it happening. We've never been that uniform, and never will be. Technology isn't satans spawn.

[READING DIVA]

Right on donnie d....pray its true...hope freedom really doesn't mean slavery!! Omg!
PEACE WORLD..

[abk4lizife]

I have this book sitting in my Kindle queue waiting to be read. Can't wait to tear through it. It's a classic

[READING DIVA]

..Happy Reading!