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Liked It11 of 11 members found this review helpful “This influence of this book is so inescapable that it’s a must-read for any literate person. Orwell’s terrifyingly plausible dystopia is the cautionary North Star by which we seem to chart our course as a society – are we there yet? Are we there now? Are we getting warmer? It’s a parable of...” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“I thought that the beginning of this book is very slow and hard to get into, but I understand that it is this way because the reader needs to be introduced to an entirely new world and its way of thinking. The rest of this book is very good and it was hard to put the book down. There were only a couple of details that I did not like: the beginning, the fact that the chapters/sections were long and it was hard to stop at a good place if you needed to, and the fact that the appendix and afterword were boring.”
Kelsey C wrote this review 4 hours ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I can barely remember having to read this in highschool and get it mixed up with the movie, so I probably should read it again, but probably won't (there are too many other books to read).”
Carolyn B wrote this review yesterday. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“So far easy to read, and just keeps pulling me in.”
Daniel Hayes wrote this review 3 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Still so relevant. Frighteningly so.”
Grace W wrote this review 4 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Another great dystopia. I was wrapped up in every minute of it. My only wish is that the ending would have been happier, but that would have taken a much longer book... The true ending was more realistic.”
DV wrote this review 4 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“If you haven't read it, you'll never understand what's going on in today's world.”
Seth Kaplan wrote this review 5 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“it was a good book but very hard to get into”
susan lowes wrote this review 5 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I'm glad I read this as an adult (with a political science degree), I feel like I wouldn't have understood a lot of it in high school.”
Amy Adler wrote this review 5 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This book is one of the most thought provoking things I've ever read. The dystopian society it invokes is so well thought out, so strong, and so airtight that it's frightening. It suggests the possibility for total dehumanization of people, while allowing the perpetuation of a totalitarian society and the continuous power of the elite. However, hope comes in a strange place: the use of a newspeak appendix in the back, which refers to the society of 1984 as being something of academic interest that occurred in the past and, apparently, ended.”
Chloe H wrote this review 5 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“ Honestly, I believe it was an interesting story. The author truly made the Party seem a bit familiar to today's government. This is very impressive seeing that this title was published back in 1949. To follow the plot was a bit tricky and understanding his views of the world governments was also a challenge for me. Nonetheless, I was fascinated at how possible a world like the one described in "1984" could be.
Nick wrote this review 5 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
I have read many dystopian titles before. It's actually my favorite genre. But I've never read one like this, where it delves deep into detail of the structure of a dystopian society and the ideology of its government. Just to think of living in an insane world like this sends chills down my spine. It makes you grateful of the world you live in now, but also aware that this world we live in can easily be turned upside down. ”
