A review by bethchatsbooks
1984 by George Orwell

4.0

This book is one wild ride! I love that in around 300 pages this book can keep surprising you with twists and turns. I enjoyed the dark dystopian backdrop to this novel and I loved the use of language and memory as weapons of suppression. I really enjoyed the complex relationship between Julia and Winston and I felt it allowed the story to have a deeper layer of narrative. The only point in the book that I dragged myself through was the bit in the middle of the book when Winston is reading Goldsteins Book and the few pages of that is rather academic and stuffy and could have been condensed or revised in my opinion. Also the ending was slightly dragged out for me but I am not sure whether that’s because I read the book fragmentarily throughout the week. Overall though I really loved the book. I think it has so much to say about the modern world we live in and I think it deserves multiple reads in one lifetime to fully glean out Orwell’s genius. For now I am content giving it 4 out of 5 stars.