1984

have any of you anons read this book? what are your opinions?

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>have any of you anons read this book?
Literally never heard of it
>reading hipstershit

What's it about? I don't know this author

The Crying of Lot 49 is better

I was about 10 or 11 when I read it and at the time it seemed terrifying and edgy. I'm curious what I'd think of it now.

I "read" the audiobook. I liked it. It rekindled my interest in literature and writing.

It's a classic. Everyone should give it a read. It's the first book I read for fun since I was a kid.

Relatively depressing, well-written, but hard to read if you can't stand bad ending
The best part is probably the "Essay"/book within a book about how the evil society came to be.

Not sure if it's porn novel with too much world building or just regular novel with too much fucking in it.
It made me feel more angry at people who try to limit what you can say.

That part was what really fucked me up when I read it at age 16.

I don't recall there being any sex in 1984, unless you count the torture of the third part as a 100 pages long rape
Wintson and Julia are both described as utterly unattractive ; their relationship is relevant to the plot because they love somebody concrete instead of the Party, which causes conflicting loyalties

Nah family, they bang...hard.

I think it is an interesting novel that has fallen on deaf ears, despite it being a cultural reference.
People like to say that it wasn't meant to be an instruction manual. Well, for the government, no but for the individual it was. Winston's individuality, his observations, his conservation of knowledge despite all records contradicting him etc, his hideaway in nature, etc, all these things were tips on how to act how to be, under a regime or not. But people just look at it as a book of don'ts and a book of parallels and carry on being susceptible with their compliance and inaction.

People should read Animal Farm what they generally think they are getting out of 1984. The latter requires more of an understanding of the self and not just historical and topical parallels, so it's a shame that it is largely seen as a late teenage read. But I guess that says a lot about the problem itself.

I read and did a research thesis on this, Huxley's "Brave New World" and Zamyatin's "We". This definitely ended up being my least favorite of the three, but good nonetheless.

>1984, Brave New World, Brazil, Clockwork Orange
>epitome of dystopian totalitarian media
>all set in Britain, warning about anglo american totalitarianism
>HURR DURR ITS ABOUT RUSSIA/COMMUNISM. KEEP FIGHTING

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It doesn't work, mate. Delete that little folder, bin that little manifesto, unclench that little fist and take that beret off.
That's it.
Big boy day.

Orwell liked Britain.
There is a reason why it's essential that GB get renamed "Airstrip One".

It was depressing but a bit conflated to hammer home the point of totalitarianism. My biggest take away was this what sheer hunger for power and control looks like, without the constraints of any ideology and religion. I honestly never got the communism = totalitarianism shit until the internet exposed me to memes like this BNW had a lot more needless drama at the end though

Not as emotionally complex as BNW. Personally, I think a better use of time is just reading nonfiction about government propaganda.

I liked it. I could connect better with that rather than the 1984 love story. I would still put We as my favorite though.

At least 1984's love story served a narrative point.

Fahrenheit 451 >Brave New World>1984>Brazil

it had some good ideas about a totalitarian government of the future with some things like Newspeak, the censorship of news in general, and government control based on fear being relevant but Fahrenheit and BNW are better as a whole and much more relevant IMO

Fahrenheit's pages are simply dripping with "tv bad"

1984 is barely a novel

More of a instruction manual!

Or an essay

>he doesn't believe media manipulation is a thing

break out of the simulation my friend...we are living in the future that Fahrenheit predicted only the book burning is metaphorical obviously.

Wrong and cringe

They are all relevant in different ways because none of them is a 1-1 comparison with our own time, although BNW is probably the closest to being that.