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1984

George Orwell

4.05 AVERAGE

misfitmoxie's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

tarnish6154's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ekehoe16's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark informative mysterious 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

brookin's review against another edition

5.0

informative reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

shahedhasan's review against another edition

5.0

This is a genius piece of literature which simultaneously made me grateful that I'm not living in Oceania and terrified thinking if we're ultimately heading towards our own Oceania.

it's a horrifying book because it's not so devoid of our currently reality that we cannot relate. The constant surveillance and control, the altercation and removal of past so truth is not objective anymore, the torture, conditioning and removal of outliers, holding down power just for the sake of power without any illusion of doing it for the good of humanity may all seem extreme, but we cannot deny that they all exist currently in at least some parts of the world and we may as well be heading to these extremities day by day.

Another genius concept that needs to be mentioned is Newspeak. Language is the tool to think. By limiting the language itself, some thoughts cannot even arise and deviating, revolutionary thinking is automatically stopped.