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1984/Animal Farm: George Orwell Boxed Set
by George Orwell
I have no idea how to review this book, except to say it is utterly brilliant, utterly startling, and disturbing on a profound level.
I am fairly sure I got a lot more out of it now than I would have had I read it as a teen. I keep thinking abut the "doublethink" concept in the book, and how that reminds me of so much that is happening now politically, though in a more "unofficial" capacity. What struck me the most, however, was the rewriting of history. While not done in the same manner as the book describes, we certainly do have a lot of it going on nonetheless, and it left me feeling pretty disturbed that George Orwell was thinking and writing this in 1949, and we seem to have learned nothing since then.
I am fairly sure I got a lot more out of it now than I would have had I read it as a teen. I keep thinking abut the "doublethink" concept in the book, and how that reminds me of so much that is happening now politically, though in a more "unofficial" capacity. What struck me the most, however, was the rewriting of history. While not done in the same manner as the book describes, we certainly do have a lot of it going on nonetheless, and it left me feeling pretty disturbed that George Orwell was thinking and writing this in 1949, and we seem to have learned nothing since then.