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1984
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August 1, 2009
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August 31, 2009
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Bror (Abrar)
2nd read 2022/ 5 🌟
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
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Medhat
Sep 20, 2018 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2016
أكثر من سنة وانا اقراها نتيجة عدم الانتظام في القراءة
عجيب كم الإسقاط الذي تجده في العصر الحاضر
الفصل التاسع من أهم الفصول في الجزء الثاني
يستحق ان يكون في قائمة ما يجب على كل شخص ان يقرأه
Arctic
Oct 19, 2016 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
It is such an old book, that I don’t really think that a review would be necessary. There isn’t anything more thoughtful that I could honestly add to this amazing classic.

This book is frightfully delightful. I could honestly see people pushing to make our world just like that. Power driven “party” members who push for complete control over all information where even the thought of something out of the ordinary has the ability to ruin your life. Mindless robots who believe or have to believe ever
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Scott Wilson
Dec 29, 2011 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2012
Polarpenguin
Jan 12, 2012 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Saerwen
Aug 31, 2012 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Dazrin
Oct 03, 2012 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Traci
Nov 29, 2012 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: classic
Herjar
Dec 27, 2012 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: reddit-top-200
Katie
Mar 27, 2013 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: classic-lit
Carl
Jun 25, 2013 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
discopig
Jun 28, 2013 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: favorites
Shari
Jul 05, 2013 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Bjorn
Jul 27, 2013 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: uk
Nancy
Aug 30, 2013 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: dystopia
James Smith
Sep 09, 2013 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Christa
May 01, 2011 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: reading-in-2011
Reanna
Sep 01, 2014 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Jenn
Nov 21, 2014 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Mantas
Feb 04, 2019 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Rebekah
Apr 23, 2015 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Arctic
Aug 13, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Ummu
Jan 02, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
AJ
Jan 03, 2017 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2017-list
Bjorn
Feb 10, 2017 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: uk
Lianna Nicole
Apr 09, 2017 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Bev
Sep 27, 2017 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition