Just finished 1984

[Anonymous No.12275341]

Hold me bros :(
also post books you recently finished

[Anonymous No.12275348]

[Anonymous No.12275380]

>>12275348
thank you for the reply

[Anonymous No.12275574]

How's freshman year of high school my nigga

[Anonymous No.12275611]

>>12275574
t. high school freshman

[Anonymous No.12275638]

>>12275341
Fuck all the other anons itt, I love 1984
great book

The room 101 scene was really heart wrenching

[Anonymous No.12275669]

it was a great adventure

[Anonymous No.12275677]

>>>/r/eddit

[Anonymous No.12275691]

>>12275638
op here
yeah i really just started reading in mid november but i can already tell 1984 is one of 'those' books that youll have to go back to at some time in the future

imo the ending is the worst because big brother wins, they destroyed winston, and theres no beating the party.

the hardest part of the book for me was right before THREE when the thought police capture them
i could feel heartrate increasing then the chapter/section ends and i honestly didnt pick it back up for 2 days :(

[Anonymous No.12275699]

>>12275691
suck my dick boyo

[Anonymous No.12275704]

>>12275691
God you’re a fag

[Anonymous No.12275712]

>op here

>>12275574
im 24 and went to shitty public schools that killed any interest i had of reading
also never made us read 1984 or really anything political, the only books i remember we had to read were Catcher in the Rye and Canterbury tales

>>12275677
thanks

[Anonymous No.12275718]

>>12275699
>>12275704
we cant all be cool

[Anonymous No.12275728]

>>12275691
is this what reddit looks like?

[Anonymous No.12275740]

>we're not like those dum reddiots, we're the cool kids that play on 4chan! XD!!1!!

[Anonymous No.12275744]

>>12275740
also do you guys even read? i thought this board was for discussion of books and reading....

[Anonymous No.12275791]

[Anonymous No.12275798]

>>12275699
>>12275704
>>12275728
You horrible heartless people, don't you dare bully OP he's innocent

[Anonymous No.12275803]

>>12275798
My dick, you should suck it

[Anonymous No.12275809]

>>12275803
There are people in this world that would eat your entire families liver in front of your face and shit in your mouth. Stop trying so hard.

[Anonymous No.12275831]

Now go read We

[Anonymous No.12275847]

>>12275831
by Yevgeny Zamyatin?
looks interesting, ill go check it out thanks :D

[Anonymous No.12275853]

>>12275809
You seem bootyblasted. Why u so edgy and mad pleb?

[Anonymous No.12275856]

>>12275853
Stop.

[Anonymous No.12275857]

>>12275847
No, there are two dystopian novels called “We”
The other is by Ivan Kramnik

[Anonymous No.12275863]

>>12275856
Lol no

[Anonymous No.12275864]

>>12275863
Stop.

[Anonymous No.12275870]

>>12275847
Yes, that one. Never heard of the other one, but Orwell and other famous writers definitely drew inspiration from it. Imo I found it to be more compelling.

[Anonymous No.12275936]

>>12275341
Good job anon you've completed the intro to political sci-fi course. Now go read Farenheit 451 and Brave New World.

[Anonymous No.12275953]

>>12275864
Eat my ass

[Anonymous No.12275965]

>>12275936
ok thanks! :D

[Anonymous No.12276022]

>>12275965
You should especially read 451 first if anything, it'll scare you into reading more books.

[Anonymous No.12276055]

Dude I read 1984 expecting a happy ending and then read the last 100 pages or more on a row, fuck me, fuck

[Anonymous No.12276064]

Apart from Johnny Got His Gun, 1984 is probably my favorite plebbit highscool English class book.

[Anonymous No.12276065]

>>12275341
>>12275691
Not a very subtle bait desu. I'll give you a 4/10 because some anons are falling for it.

[Anonymous No.12276075]

>>12276065
Cringed so hard that I shuddered a little bit.

[Anonymous No.12276158]

>>12276055
exactly what i did!
i read all the way through THREE earlier today
i knew it ends 'bad' but i didnt expect this

[Anonymous No.12276172]

>>12276064
i must have gone to one of the shittiest high schools because i really dont remember anyone ever mentioning 1984

>>12276065
?

[Anonymous No.12276234]

>>12275638
>>12275691
One could say 1984 consists of three acts:

1. Learning about the surveillance
2. Honeymoon phase
3. Prosecution

I consider the the first act to be the most important and most interesting. The rest even bored me, desu

[Anonymous No.12276335]

>>12276234
yeah i agree, though i think honeymoon is a little too vague. they did meet O'brien and try to join the brotherhood

i disagree that the first was the most interesting.

i thought the most interesting was reading goldsteins book and then in 3 everything obrien says and winstons internal monologue explain the why and show the how of how the party supports itself and why big brother is unbeatable

3 was best imo

[Anonymous No.12276418]

>>12275953
Stop.

[Anonymous No.12277066]

>>12275699
>>12275704

What happened, I missed it.

[Anonymous No.12277287]

>>12275847
a meme has need of a song
https://youtu.be/2F2i6EQsPZY

[Anonymous No.12277391]

The Penultimate Truth by PKD is pretty good if you enjoyed 1984.
Finished Born to Tun by Christopher McDougall, reading about the absolute monsters of ultra running is inspiring.

[Anonymous No.12277511]

>>12275341
OK anon, time for a pop quiz:
Did this book give you a boner at any point?

[Anonymous No.12277524]

>>12277066
Cringey underage reaction to the plot and ending of 1984. Spoilers, unnecessary dramatic language, and for some reason a pic of Leonidas

[Anonymous No.12277667]

>>12276234
soulless nigga

[Anonymous No.12277845]

>>12277511
no i dont recall getting one at any point

>>12277524
>how can i be cool like you anon?

[Anonymous No.12278912]

>>12276335
Nothing infuriated me more than reading through that third act in high school and watching other classmates pretend to read while playing on their phones, or complaining about being bored. I'm staying to think that most people would prefer to live under big brother so he can think for them.

[Anonymous No.12279534]

>>12277667
I'm german. This is how we work. (Or most used to)

[Anonymous No.12279549]

>>12275341
Read it last summer. Didn’t really like it because the ”upper” vs ”lower” thing felt so absurd, and because the double think and indoctrination felt also too absurd. Then I learned about my countrys communist party and it felt realistic as balls lmao

[Anonymous No.12279594]

>>12278912
its interesting that orwell seems to say the 'proles' wont save us all. I guess i have to agree, the USSR wasnt overthrown by normal people, it just fell from inefficiency and trying to keep up with the US militarily
maybe 4chan is full of winstons....

>>12279549
thats the opposite of how i felt when i read it. Nothing i read in the book struck me as impossible to happen in our world or in our lifetimes.
what country are you from?

[Anonymous No.12279599]

>>12275341
Good! Now go read Brave New World. My last book was a pamphlet about the SS. Right now I'm half way through the Culture of Narcissism.

[Anonymous No.12279607]

>>12279534
This isn't an untypical reaction, I was also bored through most of it. Orwell uses needlessly complicated language and languorous descriptions, but it's been a while since I read it, so I can't give a great analysis.

[Anonymous No.12279632]

>>12275341
I read The Unknown Masterpiece a couple days ago. It’s only like 30 pages and it’s very good. It’s about three painters and it talks about the relationship of the artist with his art and his life in general. Read it.

[Anonymous No.12281374]

>>12276418
Stop.

[Anonymous No.12281517]

>>12277066
We bullied a teenager too hard

[Anonymous No.12282983]

>>12275348
Calling all space niggas

[Anonymous No.12283074]

i finished moby dick two days ago and i can't stop thinking about it