Alex Lloyd answers “Why do people rate this book so high? ...”

Wilma asked this question about 1984:

Why do people rate this book so high? Surely I am missing something.

Alex Lloyd Personally, I had mixed feelings about the book for its storytelling, but it does a pretty good job of portraying a convincingly horrifying dystopia. …morePersonally, I had mixed feelings about the book for its storytelling, but it does a pretty good job of portraying a convincingly horrifying dystopia. This is basically what Orwell feared would happen if communism and other authoritarian states were able to spread to an unprecedented degree. If it would actually happen is questionable, but this is (to a lesser extent) what is happening in countries like North Korea around the world. It served as a pretty effective warning against adopting these kinds of societies when it was published.(less)

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