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Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Orwell writes a sharp-eyed disturbing vision of a future that shares der real unsettling similarities with the world that we live in right now. There are the technological aspects of Telescreens that are always on, always watching, or machine generated works of literature and music that aim to entertain and are completely soulless. There is also the simplification and radicalisation of language that result in things like a two minute hate to fuel inequality towards the “other” instead of striving for change within.
But Orwell himself writes with deep, furious empathy, at times giving us an intimate view of poverty and torture that forces you to feel the injustices committed on paper.
It’s an impressive, exhausting, amazing novel. I feel like I need to almost adjust my other reviews to give this one the rating it deserves.
10/10. Read it if you haven’t.
But Orwell himself writes with deep, furious empathy, at times giving us an intimate view of poverty and torture that forces you to feel the injustices committed on paper.
It’s an impressive, exhausting, amazing novel. I feel like I need to almost adjust my other reviews to give this one the rating it deserves.
10/10. Read it if you haven’t.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Alcohol
Moderate: Body shaming, Infertility, Mental illness, Sexual content, Death of parent, War