325 pages
English language
Published Dec. 24, 1950 by new american library.
Which One Will YOU Be IN the Year 1984?
There won't be much choice, of course, if this book's predictions turn out to be true. But you'll probably become one of the following four types:
Proletarian--Considered inferior and kept in total ignorance, you'll be fed lies from the Ministry of Truth, eliminated upon signs of promise or ability!
Police Guard--Chosen for lack of intelligence but superiour brown, you'll be suspicious of everyone and be ready to give your life for Big Brother, the leader you've never even seen!
Party Member--Male--Face-less, mind-less, a flesh-and-blood robot with a push-button brain, you're denied love by law, taught hate by the flick of a switch!
Party Member--Female--A member of the Anti-Sex League from birth, your duty will be to smother all human emotion, and your children might not be your husband's!
Unbelievable? You'll feel differently after you've read this best-selling book of forbidden love …
Which One Will YOU Be IN the Year 1984?
There won't be much choice, of course, if this book's predictions turn out to be true. But you'll probably become one of the following four types:
Proletarian--Considered inferior and kept in total ignorance, you'll be fed lies from the Ministry of Truth, eliminated upon signs of promise or ability!
Police Guard--Chosen for lack of intelligence but superiour brown, you'll be suspicious of everyone and be ready to give your life for Big Brother, the leader you've never even seen!
Party Member--Male--Face-less, mind-less, a flesh-and-blood robot with a push-button brain, you're denied love by law, taught hate by the flick of a switch!
Party Member--Female--A member of the Anti-Sex League from birth, your duty will be to smother all human emotion, and your children might not be your husband's!
Unbelievable? You'll feel differently after you've read this best-selling book of forbidden love and terror in a world many of us may live to see!
This was a reread, and unsurprisingly not very enjoyable. Many of the “classics” of SF are idea driven, and I respect the endeavor, but they are not fun to read. There’s a full ~15% that is a political theory book within the book.
As literary science fiction, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic novel of the social science fiction sub-genre, the terms and concepts of Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Memory hole et cetera, became contemporary vernacular, including the adjective Orwellian, denoting George Orwell’s writings and totalitarianism as exposited in Nineteen Eighty-Four. George Orwell has mastered the art of writing, and dystopian societies so much so that even now days there is a sense of science fiction and relevants to our society.
Overrated and the characters were so shallow I had no emotional attachment to them at all.
Reading this in 2024 was definitely... an experience. Smarter people than I have written about which parts of the world of "1984" have become part of our reality since its publication. Let me just add that I sometimes had to put the book down because it felt as if I was reading a newspaper.
The plot itself is not the star of this novel - the world we visit in it is, as is arguably the protagonist's view of it. An irritating (and violent) journey into the mind of an Oceanian citizen, not the best choice for the faint-hearted reader.
Recommended if not required reading for everyone who is trying to make sense of our world.
I read this for the second time after my first visit to "Oceania" when I was around 20 - definitely a different experience for reasons both personal and, well, civilizational. I picked it up …
Reading this in 2024 was definitely... an experience. Smarter people than I have written about which parts of the world of "1984" have become part of our reality since its publication. Let me just add that I sometimes had to put the book down because it felt as if I was reading a newspaper.
The plot itself is not the star of this novel - the world we visit in it is, as is arguably the protagonist's view of it. An irritating (and violent) journey into the mind of an Oceanian citizen, not the best choice for the faint-hearted reader.
Recommended if not required reading for everyone who is trying to make sense of our world.
I read this for the second time after my first visit to "Oceania" when I was around 20 - definitely a different experience for reasons both personal and, well, civilizational. I picked it up again to prepare for reading "[b:Julia|86508927|Julia|Sandra Newman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1680077531l/86508927.SX50.jpg|94140994]" by Sandra Newman, which portrays the same story from the perspective of the major female character in "1984". If you "liked" Orwell's version and want to feel more miserable, give "Julia" a try too.
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