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1984
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April 15, 2016
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May 14, 2016
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Audrey
This remains a timeless classic. The writing is brilliant even if a bit dry at times. The story is a way to examine a future life of totalitarianism. With every threat to freedom in the book, you can find an equivalent example in the world today.

The first part shows our main character, Winston, working at his job revising history. This was the most interesting to me. Dictatorships frequently, if not always, manipulate facts and history to support their regimes. Today, history is often portrayed
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Josh Caporale
Aug 15, 2017 rated it really liked it
The two novels that I am hearing people talking about these days are The Handmaid's Tale and 1984. Dystopians have a reputation of picking up a lot of attention among "the classics" when readers do not have the urge for something light-hearted like Pride & Prejudice. By no means are dystopians meant to be light-hearted and 1984 is among the most intense and honest among them. Dystopians are meant to be warnings and our job as readers is to point out the tyrannical horrors that are taking place i ...more
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Really shocked me, definitely a conversation starter considering the world today...see my full review here: http://bookmarkedreadsreviews.blogspo... ...more
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