Reviews with content warning for Misogyny - George Orwell's 1984: An Audible Original adaptation

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George Orwell's 1984: An Audible Original adaptation by George Orwell, Joe White

200 reviews

percy_still's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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toves10's review against another edition

5.0

dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

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leon3lliott's review against another edition

2.5

dark slow-paced

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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areadingstan's review against another edition

4.5

dark reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A classic for a reason, I both fear and love this book.

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pellidees's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had once been different?

Winston Smith holds a piece of evidence, a torn page of a magazine that can making the population of Oceania aware of the totalitarian government’s constant manipulation of history. However, with little to no freedom he has—with cameras everywhere, from walking down an empty alley down to the limited number words he’s allowed to use, he tries to keep the rebellion to himself. Until he met Julia, a woman 10 years younger than him who he had an affair with. Winston’s first act of rebellion.

Orwell experienced the dictatorships of both Nazism and Stalinism, drawing on these experiences to create the novel's plotline. The book serves as an eye-opener to the true nature of totalitarian governments. The book shows the forced brainwashing and submission of people. The practice of being punished for thoughts alone. However, with the lack of technology during these past dictatorships, total control of people cannot happen. Orwell then writes about a dystopian future where even things like marriages should only happen if the government agrees upon it, where kids are trained to be spies even to their parents—even the smallest space inside one’s home can be monitored by the thought police.

The book is well thought from the portrayal of what happens during war down to the limitations of language used. However, there seems to still be an issue with the portrayal of women. In a book where every societal issue was adressed, the patriarchy is still implied as “normal”. No woman was ever portrayed as someone who’s not used for pleasure or someone that’s not submissive.

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nymphutian's review

5.0

dark reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I just finished listening to the audiobook edition and all I can say is WOW. It wasn't just an audiobook but an immersive performance that I finished in one sitting as I didn't want to stop listening.

This isn't the kind of book that I'd typically go for but it was free as part of my audible subscription so I figured why not and I'm so glad I did.

The world building was incredible and had a very gripping way of highlighting the issues of oppression and dictatorship.

The voice acting was fantastic and really helped me connect with the characters on a deeper level and I really did feel for them.

O'brien,

what a nasty man he is! I just felt it in my gut when they went to him that he wasn't to be trusted. And the torture scenes were so detailed and atmospheric that I truly felt I was in the room with them, I couldn't listen to those bits with my eyes closed!

Would I give such a high rating if I read the book as opposed to listening to the audiobook? I honestly can't say, but this was amazing and I highly recommend this to anyone looking to get immersed in a story!

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lylacks's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

i originally read this as required reading in high school and rereading it now, I picked up on a lot of things that flew over my head in ninth grade. there's a lot in this that has become frighteningly relevant but it was hard to ignore Winston's sexism and misogyny throughout the entire novel.

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reading_on_the_moon's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark 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

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carla20's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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nakaka925's review against another edition

2.75

dark informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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: Complicated

Good ideas, not good delivery. Rather than showing the effects of authoritarianism throughout the book, the main character has the effects of Big Brother’s scheming explained to him by other characters or through a book he reads. It feels like someone going “imagine if this super scary thing happened!”.

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