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A review by wouterk
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
5.0
I'm sure a thousand more knowledgeable and more invested people have made great analyses of this classic, but here's my two cents.
A brilliant book. An amazingly impressive and scary thought experiment. All the criticisms that I've read are moot or besides the purpose of this book. I've seen the movie years ago, the book is better. An amazingly impressive treatise on human nature, malleability of the mind and of society, on societal nature and the nature of all political development.
What struck me, was that this book was extremely readable for a book that is over 70 years old. Yes, the chapters in the middle are somewhat lengthy and so are some of the paragraphs, but the language itself was very accessible even though the contents was quite complicated.
I see some people who state that Animal Farm gets the point across better, which might be true, but 1984 really gives us a lot more to think about in terms of social engineering and actual developments in the world around us. Would recommend over and over and am looking forward to read [b:Julia: A Retelling of George Orwell's 1984|199531729|Julia A Retelling of George Orwell's 1984|Sandra Newman|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/50x75-a91bf249278a81aabab721ef782c4a74.png|94140994]. I'm curious whether it reaches the same heights as this book.
A brilliant book. An amazingly impressive and scary thought experiment. All the criticisms that I've read are moot or besides the purpose of this book. I've seen the movie years ago, the book is better. An amazingly impressive treatise on human nature, malleability of the mind and of society, on societal nature and the nature of all political development.
What struck me, was that this book was extremely readable for a book that is over 70 years old. Yes, the chapters in the middle are somewhat lengthy and so are some of the paragraphs, but the language itself was very accessible even though the contents was quite complicated.
I see some people who state that Animal Farm gets the point across better, which might be true, but 1984 really gives us a lot more to think about in terms of social engineering and actual developments in the world around us. Would recommend over and over and am looking forward to read [b:Julia: A Retelling of George Orwell's 1984|199531729|Julia A Retelling of George Orwell's 1984|Sandra Newman|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/50x75-a91bf249278a81aabab721ef782c4a74.png|94140994]. I'm curious whether it reaches the same heights as this book.