false <![CDATA[1984]]> 5470 218 153313 book 1949 1984 total:187376|5:72052|4:65369|3:36619|2:9496|1:3841| 187376 754422 233367 7143 5470 0451524934 9780451524935 177873 6028 1984 4.03 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165522327m/5470.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5470.1984 5 78 false Sat Jul 28 20:50:09 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 02:39:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5470 0451524934 9780451524935 177873 6028 1984 4.03 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165522327m/5470.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5470.1984 5 31 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Dec 07 00:09:49 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 08 20:44:28 -0800 2009 2
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

Those words keep sounding in my head since I read this book. Gosh, probably the most haunting not to mention frightening book I've ever read. 1984 should also be included in the horror genre.

1984 de...more...]]> 5470 0451524934 9780451524935 177873 6028 1984 4.03 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165522327m/5470.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5470.1984 2 16 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Aug 12 18:07:08 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 04:53:40 -0800 2009 1984 is not a particularly good novel, but it is a very good essay. On the novel front, the characters are bland and you only care about them because of the awful things they live through. As a novel all the political exposition is heavyhanded, and the message completely overrides any sense of story...more...]]> 5470 0451524934 9780451524935 177873 6028 1984 4.03 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165522327m/5470.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5470.1984 3 16 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Feb 06 07:45:53 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 07:45:53 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5470 0451524934 9780451524935 177873 6028 1984 4.03 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165522327m/5470.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5470.1984 5 9 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 16 09:49:09 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 05:30:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5470 0451524934 9780451524935 177873 6028 1984 4.03 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165522327m/5470.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5470.1984 3 8 false Sat Jun 21 10:05:02 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 08 00:39:17 -0800 2009 "The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed--would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper--the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge su...more...]]> 5470 0451524934 9780451524935 177873 6028 1984 4.03 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165522327m/5470.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5470.1984 5 8 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Aug 23 11:52:24 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 06:45:35 -0800 2009
For those of you who've heard the phrase "Orwellian" and never knew what it means, this book is a good place to start.

Before there was "The Matrix",...more...]]> 5470 0451524934 9780451524935 177873 6028 1984 4.03 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165522327m/5470.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5470.1984 4 7 true Fri Feb 29 11:11:26 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 29 11:11:26 -0800 2008 "And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who co...more...]]> 5470 0451524934 9780451524935 177873 6028 1984 4.03 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165522327m/5470.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5470.1984 5 7 false Wed Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 10:37:11 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 11:29:18 -0800 2008 For me this book put a whole new spin on relativism, both moral ...more...]]> 5470 0451524934 9780451524935 177873 6028 1984 4.03 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165522327m/5470.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5470.1984 4 4 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 04 14:21:17 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 15 16:20:48 -0800 2008
Ok – so I’m probably the only one in the universe who didn’t read this in high school. This is a book that must be read, right? I knew the general premise of the book, big brother is watching you. But oh, how frightening it was! Big Brother was not only watch...more...]]> 5475 0451519841 9780451519849 1273 156 1984 4.03 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176362229m/5475.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5475.1984 3 4 false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Jun 23 16:35:05 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 23 16:35:46 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5470 0451524934 9780451524935 177873 6028 1984 4.03 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165522327m/5470.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5470.1984 4 4 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue May 29 13:59:38 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 12 13:17:23 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5470 0451524934 9780451524935 177873 6028 1984 4.03 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165522327m/5470.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5470.1984 3 3 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Aug 14 02:56:17 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 14 14:05:48 -0700 2009 1
For the record, I don't dislike either Animal Farm or 1984, I just don't like them nearly as much as everyone else seems to, and so I was deeply disappointed. But my liking or d...more...]]> 5470 0451524934 9780451524935 177873 6028 1984 4.03 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165522327m/5470.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5470.1984 2 4 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 15 21:52:37 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 17 20:43:22 -0800 2007 Well, now I know what everybody was talking about. That's good. As far as reading experience goes, though, I wasn't really engrossed at al...more...]]> 5470 0451524934 9780451524935 177873 6028 1984 4.03 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165522327m/5470.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5470.1984 5 3 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 09 06:30:07 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 12 15:43:09 -0700 2007
...more...]]> 1611724 0881030368 9780881030365 37 6 1984 (Signet Classics) 4.03 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255647370m/1611724.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1611724.1984 4 2 false Sat Mar 11 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Fri Oct 10 09:42:51 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 10 09:44:54 -0700 2008 1984 has the greatest ending to a book ever.

Long before Big Brother was a floating disconnected term more closely tied with reality TV, George Orwell made the ultimate dystopian statement: Big Brother is watching you. With a social commentary still relevant today—even if the year isn’t...more...]]> 5470 0451524934 9780451524935 177873 6028 1984 4.03 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165522327m/5470.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5470.1984 3 2 false Wed Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Aug 02 12:55:32 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 02 13:19:08 -0700 2008
In this dictatorship which is ruled by ...more...]]> 5470 0451524934 9780451524935 177873 6028 1984 4.03 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165522327m/5470.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5470.1984 5 2 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1980 Thu Feb 14 13:23:52 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 14 14:15:07 -0800 2008
Wow. I read this book a long time ago so I knew what was going to happen, but still...wow. Orwell envisioned a dystopian future and followed his vision with unblinking eye to the bitter end.

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i remember, in eighth grade, reading 1984. i stayed up way past my bedtime, of course (this was the insurrection of my day-- and when i heard vague stirrings of my wrathful ...more...]]> 5470 0451524934 9780451524935 177873 6028 1984 4.03 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165522327m/5470.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5470.1984 5 2 false Tue Sep 11 22:34:32 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 10:10:47 -0800 2009
It doesn't set me off on london, but it's a city...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=101426