This was even better in the reread. The writing is so crisp, the ideas so relevant.

I'd read critiques and was psyching myself up for disappointment, it had been years and years and years since I'd read it. Luckily I found out that - while the critiques weren't totally off the mark - they weren't anywhere near strong enough to take away from the power and timelessness of this work.

Newspeak alone makes this a legendary work: doublethink, facecrime and duckspeak are almost comically relevant today.