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George Orwell's 1984: An Audible Original adaptation by George Orwell, Joe White
202 reviews
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
slow-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:
Complicated
It isn't a book that I would choose usually, but it was overall a great book! I did struggle to get into a bit and some moments were hard to get through, but that's not really a fault of the book and instead more of a fault with my own difficulties reading.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Confinement, Misogyny, Sexism, Torture, Alcohol, War, Classism
Main character has a lack of self reflection regarding the totalitarian regime and how he supports it through his misogyny.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Confinement, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Police brutality, Colonisation, Classism
Minor: Alcohol
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , War
Minor: Slavery, Xenophobia, Antisemitism
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Everyone needs to read this at least once. The information and perspectives gained from this classic are a necessary warning to never give up free thinking. Content of political science, sociology, psychology, government, and history make many parts seem like nonfiction, while telling the fictional story of characters, a city, a government, and acts of control and torture that don’t reflect a specific time/place, but are based on many instances of fascism that have occurred and could occur again.
The illegal love that blossoms in a society that has strict rules about everything, including the enjoyment of sex and the right to think, brings a personal investment to this dystopian world.
The illegal love that blossoms in a society that has strict rules about everything, including the enjoyment of sex and the right to think, brings a personal investment to this dystopian world.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Torture, Grief, Classism
Moderate: Misogyny, Physical abuse, Murder
Minor: Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexism, Police brutality, Religious bigotry
dark
informative
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
It took a while to see it but I understand now why this book is so popular and why people say it is so important and relevant to the world even today. In that way, I found this to be a rather interesting read for it's political ideas and warnings of how the future could go.
However, the story itself was simply not something I could get that interested in. I didn't like the characters, the plot was very lacking and I found it hard to care about story. I respect the story for what it is which is a vessel for exploring this fictional world and the ideas that make it so horrible of a society but I barely enjoy it simply as a story.
In summary: Uninteresting story, well-handled subject, disturbing (good) worldbuilding and a dark warning that needs to be heard.
However, the story itself was simply not something I could get that interested in. I didn't like the characters, the plot was very lacking and I found it hard to care about story. I respect the story for what it is which is a vessel for exploring this fictional world and the ideas that make it so horrible of a society but I barely enjoy it simply as a story.
In summary: Uninteresting story, well-handled subject, disturbing (good) worldbuilding and a dark warning that needs to be heard.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Torture
Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence
Minor: Homophobia, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Xenophobia, Stalking, War
challenging
dark
informative
slow-paced
Content Warnings
Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual content, Violence
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I thought I'd really like this considering I loved Animal Farm (same author), and Fahrenheit 451 (similar plot). I can see how this book is objectively good and relevant, but the writing style and plot devices were not my taste, so I found it hard to get invested into the story. Most of the time, I had that "I'm staring at words on paper" feeling rather than feeling like I was watching a movie in my mind. I think the main thing that made it difficult for me to get into, was the fact that the characters are (intentionally) one-dimensional, and not very likeable or relatable. I tend to prefer books that are on the character driven side. This book is pretty much all plot.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Cursing, Torture, Violence
Minor: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Murder
dark
informative
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
1984 is a terrifying cautionary tale.
I was immediately hooked on the prospect of what made past dictatorships from Russia and Germany terrifying and elevated it towards the extremes that turned such a reality leagues beyond more evil, cruel and insidious.
Following Winston as an expendable figure of helpless, hopeless and tragic example is heartbreaking to read about. It’s horrific to think and ponder about how the citizens of Oceania and including Eurasia and Eastasia, which meant anywhere around the world is experiencing the extreme totalitarianism, it’s what’s normal everywhere.
In this case, the people as individuals are isolated from any kind of freedom.
Freedom for their sexualities, attraction and pleasure is taken by ridding the people of the human nature and instinct of sexual pleasure and turning that energy into mass hysteria that fuels the hatred, triumph, loyalty and other emotions needed to maintain the Party.
Freedom for familial, friendship and romantic loyalties and relations by putting a rift between child and parent where the parents are scared of their own children since they are subjected and groomed towards only being loyal to the Party. The same can be said with friendships and especially with partners, women are especially subjected to believing that bearing children is their duty to the Party. There’s even a plan to rid children from their mothers as soon as they are born or the plan to bear children without sex.
Freedom for their own thoughts and words. Many offenses are considered punishable by death like simply owning a notebook. A notebook and a pen serves as a method of self-expression. People are not allowed to have their own thoughts and words even with the simplest disagreement and dissent that doesn’t even involve the Party. Two plus two cannot be four if the Party said it’s five or any other number.
Freedom for their own personal privacy. The people are subjected to 24/7 surveillance, they are being watched and even the smallest micro expressions that makes the Party suspicious is not allowed.
Freedom for their own feelings. Love is considered the biggest acts of betrayal in the story, considering Winston and Julia’s union became their form of resistance against the Party, especially loving each other. There is only love for Big Brother and the Party and Winston’s journey towards resignation and acceptance of it to the end is a major implication that Winston’s story isn’t the first. That if not all, almost everyone had a similar experience once they were taken away.
I can see why this book is a must read! This novel paints such a vivid picture of what could happen if a government subjects its citizens to the extremes.
The details and explanations made through Goldstein’s book is so fascinating at contextualizing the story and the world behind it. However, it did feel like those entries could have been turned into essays instead of being very textbook heavy because I was admittedly zoning out and had to repeatedly read paragraphs just to understand what is being said.
Overall, I like the book. I thoroughly enjoyed Winston’s journey and how he wasn’t even unique to have rebellious thoughts and tendencies against the Party. He isn’t the first and his offenses weren’t even grave but the Party making an example out of him was truly a dreadful experience in the best way.
I’m glad I went into the story blind. I was expecting that there was going to be some rebellion and abolishment against the Party. I did not expect the more insidious reality of specific persons being handpicked to be taken for their offenses. What makes it even more terrifying is how O’Brien said that he has been monitoring Winston for years, the implication that the Party didn’t even stop him from having his first rebellious thought and action, that they baited him towards acting out makes me think that the Party tests and handpicks people to keep acting out until it was time to take them and subject them to the most cruel conditioning and torture towards complete submission just because they enforce and gain power for the sake of power and having it.
It’s a horror story. One with no ghosts and grotesque monster hiding in closets.
I was immediately hooked on the prospect of what made past dictatorships from Russia and Germany terrifying and elevated it towards the extremes that turned such a reality leagues beyond more evil, cruel and insidious.
Following Winston as an expendable figure of helpless, hopeless and tragic example is heartbreaking to read about. It’s horrific to think and ponder about how the citizens of Oceania and including Eurasia and Eastasia, which meant anywhere around the world is experiencing the extreme totalitarianism, it’s what’s normal everywhere.
In this case, the people as individuals are isolated from any kind of freedom.
Freedom for their sexualities, attraction and pleasure is taken by ridding the people of the human nature and instinct of sexual pleasure and turning that energy into mass hysteria that fuels the hatred, triumph, loyalty and other emotions needed to maintain the Party.
Freedom for familial, friendship and romantic loyalties and relations by putting a rift between child and parent where the parents are scared of their own children since they are subjected and groomed towards only being loyal to the Party. The same can be said with friendships and especially with partners, women are especially subjected to believing that bearing children is their duty to the Party. There’s even a plan to rid children from their mothers as soon as they are born or the plan to bear children without sex.
Freedom for their own thoughts and words. Many offenses are considered punishable by death like simply owning a notebook. A notebook and a pen serves as a method of self-expression. People are not allowed to have their own thoughts and words even with the simplest disagreement and dissent that doesn’t even involve the Party. Two plus two cannot be four if the Party said it’s five or any other number.
Freedom for their own personal privacy. The people are subjected to 24/7 surveillance, they are being watched and even the smallest micro expressions that makes the Party suspicious is not allowed.
Freedom for their own feelings. Love is considered the biggest acts of betrayal in the story, considering Winston and Julia’s union became their form of resistance against the Party, especially loving each other. There is only love for Big Brother and the Party and Winston’s journey towards resignation and acceptance of it to the end is a major implication that Winston’s story isn’t the first. That if not all, almost everyone had a similar experience once they were taken away.
I can see why this book is a must read! This novel paints such a vivid picture of what could happen if a government subjects its citizens to the extremes.
The details and explanations made through Goldstein’s book is so fascinating at contextualizing the story and the world behind it. However, it did feel like those entries could have been turned into essays instead of being very textbook heavy because I was admittedly zoning out and had to repeatedly read paragraphs just to understand what is being said.
Overall, I like the book. I thoroughly enjoyed Winston’s journey and how he wasn’t even unique to have rebellious thoughts and tendencies against the Party. He isn’t the first and his offenses weren’t even grave but the Party making an example out of him was truly a dreadful experience in the best way.
I’m glad I went into the story blind. I was expecting that there was going to be some rebellion and abolishment against the Party. I did not expect the more insidious reality of specific persons being handpicked to be taken for their offenses. What makes it even more terrifying is how O’Brien said that he has been monitoring Winston for years, the implication that the Party didn’t even stop him from having his first rebellious thought and action, that they baited him towards acting out makes me think that the Party tests and handpicks people to keep acting out until it was time to take them and subject them to the most cruel conditioning and torture towards complete submission just because they enforce and gain power for the sake of power and having it.
It’s a horror story. One with no ghosts and grotesque monster hiding in closets.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: War
Minor: Rape