It's been a long while since I re-read this — life's too short to read too much that's disturbingly unpleasant. But it remains a profoundly powerful book, and everyone should read it at least once.
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My thoughts on this classic novel.
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My Reading Life: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)
Cover of Nineteen Eighty-Four
There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always—do not forget this, Winston—always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you …
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I very deliberately gave my kids Animal Farm at an age where they would think it was just about animals, but I don't think either of them have actually read it yet.
It’s a good book and over the past decades it has been amusing to me when ideas/concepts from and of the dystopian books pops up.
I would say that in the bd world of required reading would be the following:
1984
Fahrenheit 451
Brave New World
The Handmaid’s Tale
Our current time line tends to have to Brave New World with healthy dollups from Fahrenheit 451 and the far right in this country busily dragging us toward The Handmaid’s Tale and 1984.