Book Review: "1984"

This book WILL get under your skin. A shocking glance at human nature and ignorance.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• book
• review
• 1984
• George
• Orwell

[wafflesmacduff]

I read this book as a sophomore in high school. It was great! I suggest Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, which is similar book set in a dystopian future.

[quanyin81]

I've already read that one, it was one of the few school assigned books I actually liked.

[englishbiyatch45]

Dry British author? HEY! We Brits have written some of the best pieces of literature ever to be invented! Lol

[CameraBagster]

I've read this book like 4 times but watching this video makes me want to go read it again, sooo good!!

[methodandmadness]

If you figured any part of that book was dry then you're a fool.

[jmwallace87]

This one and Keep the Aspidistra Flying are my two most favorite Orwell novels. I say "most favorite" because they are all incredible.

[UTRINQUEPARATUS92]

great book, better than burmese days

[SFsc616171]

The book is one that will make you think, and think hard. The term 'newspeak' came from this book. To watch "the movie", I believe there is a black-and-white version of it, too. Pretty good for John Hurt - to be in that, then to play in "V for Vendetta"! Mind you, Orwell, and Huxley both, are British, throughout, being engrossed in that Constitutional Parliamentary system, not with the defined values of freedom we have here. Can you imagine the chaos if that kind of system were to happen here?

[Andy777777777]

You should also read Heart of darkness by Joseph Conrad.

[pbrskater26]

Yeah, its the new dark ages. The dark ages was a time when any intellectual thought and free thinking was fround apon. We get that with the fundimentalists. Go and watch the video from a band called Bad Religion, who inspired my ways of thinking, The New Dark Ages. Its good!

[pbrskater26]

Ignorence is strangth? sounds like a slogen from the guys of Way Of the Master. " if we circumnavigate the intellect, then the subject of evolution will never come up"- Kirk Camoren. " Thats good for some one like me, that way I wont have to learn words like rinosackisourus"- Ray Comfort aka the banana man!! Sorry my spellings a little off. Creationisms a bitch I tell yah.