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1984

George Orwell

Start date: January 23, 2015

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1984 Part 3 : ENDING SPOILERS
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Jul 12, 2022 P.E. rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: covid-19, ideology, crime, post-apocalyptic, daily-life, languages-and-idioms, psychology, utopia-dystopia, science-fiction, the-media

1984 - Tercera lectura

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'El mayor placer en la vida de Winston era su trabajo. La mayor parte era tedioso y rutinario, pero también incluía tareas tan difíciles e intricadas que podías perderte en ellas como en las profundidades de un problema matemático: delicados casos de falsificación en los que solo podías guiarte por tu conocimiento de los principios del Socing y tu intuición de lo que el Partido quería que dijeras.'

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Jan 18, 2025 Klowey rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: speculative-fic

Ok . . . I was not ready for that.

Despite hearing about this book my whole life, I had not read it before. I've commented on books that were intense, depressing, existential, even hopeless, from authors like Thomas Bernhard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Samuel Beckett, and books like Hunger, Bartleby the Scrivener, In the Penal Colony, The Death of Ivan Ilych, Darkness at Noon, and A Hunger Artist. My review of All Quiet on the Western Front described it as:

The gradual, relentless, and complete disint

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Jun 15, 2022 Chahira Boudjema rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, have

reading through this has reminded me of how stupid I am(was).

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Jun 10, 2020 Sofia rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Wow let me just say wow. This is one of the most thought provoking books I have ever read. Being a kid/teenager age it made me realize that maybe what some people regarded as being human is not really how I regard as being human. Maybe through social media and new ways of controlling the news I have lost some of the ability to question if something is truly in the right. I just accept it. This book was good; I don’t know how Orwell managed to provoke such organic emotions in me. I mean this mans ...more

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