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Ritu
May 26, 2016 rated it really liked it
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Imagine a world where War is peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is strength,
The world where free thinking is discouraged and termed as THOUGHTCRIME,
Showing expression is FACECRIME .
Falling in love or rational thinking is discouraged,
Only loyalty to the Tyrant is encouraged.
Where you are served repugnant food and drink under the “victory label”,
Where your kids are trained to spy on you for “Crime against the party”, unlike most fable.
Where the languages are reduced to just a syllables cal
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Monica Miller
Jan 01, 2014 rated it really liked it
Given that I'm not a fan of politics or novels whose main plot involves this, I got to admit that "1984" was a very interesting book and I was very curious about it the more I read it.

The world George Orwell created is so complex and totally possible, thought to the last detail. It's amazing how he had a book, The Book inside the book, and also created a freaking grammar for the Newspeak, totally plausible and correct.

The main character, Winston Smith, was a very interesting person, and I could
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Riya Arora
Dec 17, 2017 rated it really liked it
1984 is a dystopian novel and hits you with reality.There are no rose tinted views or happily ever afters, just like life. While telescreens were used to snoop on people openly in the book , today internet , chats , phones are being used. Politicians are dismissing science and declaring that global warming is not a thing. Window dressing of statistics to rick people has been done for long now. Controlling reality, people, facts, freedom are all coming to life.
This hauntingly nightmarish novel s
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