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This is one of those books that everyone has read and is spoken a lot about. One of the main reasons why I liked this book was that it was very thought provoking. I would say more than the story, I loved the way Orwell has tried to put across a nice social message. It was very disturbing, no doubt. At some point, I was really thinking whether I should skip the torture part. But I still continued because of the way it was written. I had hoped against all hopes that something good or miraculous mi
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I don't know what to say. I just couldn't get too into it. So much time was spent inside his mind and describing the scenery and attitudes that I couldn't really follow the story too well. It just didn't inspire me to want to read more. People give this book such praise, but I just didn't get it. I wasn't attached to the characters, I.didn't really care about their development. I mean, it describes a horrible world, but I didn't really get a good feeling of what it would feel like living there.
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Great book. Very dystopian, very depressing.
Dec 02, 2011
Lauren
marked it as to-read
Mar 15, 2012
Tom
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