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Bror (Abrar)
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Coming back to this book after almost 10 years as a mature person with a very different eye and view of the world really hits differently, I still think it's fucked up and just sad but it's all true and coming to be, or it's happening while I'm writing this right now, the world is actually that bad if not worst, did Orwell see into the future or he just felt that history will repeat itself?
I'm just sad that my very young self had actually felt wronged by this book and that th ...more
Coming back to this book after almost 10 years as a mature person with a very different eye and view of the world really hits differently, I still think it's fucked up and just sad but it's all true and coming to be, or it's happening while I'm writing this right now, the world is actually that bad if not worst, did Orwell see into the future or he just felt that history will repeat itself?
I'm just sad that my very young self had actually felt wronged by this book and that th ...more
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Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
The lack of character substance made the story quite bland for me, and I only enjoyed reading 'part 3' of the novel - 200 pages in.
The ideas and themes raised in the story were great though and there's a good twist. ...more
The ideas and themes raised in the story were great though and there's a good twist. ...more
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