Alana 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.

Alana It is hard mentally to read. Ugly and boring on the surface with no likable characters. The awful but necessary ending. But the lesson underneath is s…moreIt is hard mentally to read. Ugly and boring on the surface with no likable characters. The awful but necessary ending. But the lesson underneath is so important. Nasty and ugly throughout. The main character is hard to like. It helps if you have known a liitle about political systems in which "Big Brother," lies, spies, abuses and tricks and kills its civilians for free thought. We have a little of it in the U.S.A, but could not even dream what some people went through in the U.S.S.R. in the civil war. (less)

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