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1984

George Orwell

Start date: August 1, 2017

Finish date: August 31, 2017

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Aug 04, 2017 Elise Edmonds rated it it was amazing

Shelves: sci-fi-and-dystopian, classics, re-reads, book-club-reads

1984 is probably the most well-known and widely quoted dystopian novel. It's a must for fans of the genre. Its iconic nature means that one can overlook some of its flaws ... most prominently, the massive textbook style exposition in the middle. The ideas behind this book never fail to fascinate me every time I read it.

This time I read it for a book club, and I'm going to answer my book club questions for it here:

Favourite character: I don't have a favourite character. To be honest, it's not re ...more

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Jun 20, 2018 Panos Gr rated it it was amazing

Shelves: suspense, good-reviews, popular, referenced-somewhere, to-read-again

REREAD UPDATE (1 YR LATER)

After finishing the book for a second time I'm glad to notice that I haven't changed my mind about rating this mind warping tale a full 5 stars!

It isn't so out of grasp a story as to make you feel completely unable to understand what is going on but it doesn't allow you to feel quite comfortable with it either. It's definitely an interest (and gloomy) approach to what a totalitarian society could look like today (or at least in 1984) with quite a few references and even ...more

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