I somehow managed to get all through high school and college without ever reading 1984 (everyone read it Sophomore year, except my class, and the only reason I read Animal Farm in high school was that it got snuck into Senior year AP English II, between Hamlet and Waiting for Godot). But I've been on a dystopian kick lately, and since I'd never read it I desperately wanted to, so I ransacked my boxes of books for my copy (including pencil drawing of a pig with the hammer and sickle on its stomach, courtesy of my high school best friend), found it, and put it into the "more permanent library than previously compiled."

And now that I've read it, other than really making me want to watch Brazil again, there's this whole NDAA thing going on. WTF?