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1984 by George Orwell

345 reviews

wiktoria_bojda's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, and Sexual harassment

maiabradley's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Violence, and Torture

Moderate: Rape, War, and Sexual content

Minor: Confinement

walius's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Violence

caelfind's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Torture

Moderate: Sexual content

blynn817's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Violence

Moderate: Xenophobia and War

Minor: Alcoholism, Antisemitism, and Sexual violence

tkivinen's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

A dystopian classic for a reason. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Torture, War, Police brutality, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, and Violence

Minor: Sexual content, Suicide, Homophobia, Death of parent, Infertility, and Suicidal thoughts

euannn900's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book is incredible. It thoroughly deserves it's place as a literature classic. It is dark and challenging, a terrifying reflection on human nature. It is everything that a dystopian should be. The Party has a disturbing control over its people creating such an eerie world.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Moderate: War and Violence

ttnnllrr's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

While this classic was very interesting and thought provoking in my opinion, it is entirely NOT accessible and really hard to get through. (This is the reason for the .25 markdown)
If you prefer the plot to move quickly and the details to be concise, not sure this is your kind of book. I thought of this book as a sort of thought experiment and a case study on what could have happened if the totalitarian governments (popular at the time it was first published) would have stuck, which helped me get into the book more easily, since I felt like it was more of a learning opportunity rather than simply for entertainment.

Oceania is a terrifying concept. It is also terrifying to think of how some of the ideas are still relevant in today’s society, like the use of technology to monitor consumers, though not NEARLY as abused. (Thankfully)
The entire ending threw me for a loop, it was disturbing

and i definitely didn’t expect to see Winston released, for him to ‘finally’ love Big Brother, and for Ingsoc to win in the end. I was hoping it wouldn’t, at least…

I’m a big fan of linguistics, so the annexe about Newspeak was so interesting to me, the fact that they use the language to change the way people think or rather, what they are capable of thinking about…

Overall, I had to reread some parts to actually understand what it was I was reading, it felt like I was reading a really intriguing textbook at times, but I will be thinking about this book until the day I die and that’s really all I want from literature. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Torture

eminent_reader's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Torture, Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, Classism, and Gaslighting

kj_1429's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Torture

Minor: Misogyny and War