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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:
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...more
1984 is a well deserved classic and it’s about TIME I read it! Unquestionably depressing, abstract, and frightening because it reveals the worst of the worst of political control & degradation. I didn’t find Winston Smith to be a likable character, but intrigued by his intrinsic journey of loneliness, self-awareness, despair, and finally resignation. What a weird and troubling story.
