1984

[Anonymous No.13505482]

what's your opinion on 1984

[Anonymous No.13505495]

>>13505482
Yes

[Anonymous No.13505496]

book

[Anonymous No.13505500]

A bit too long but generally a good novel and one of the most terrifying dystopias in fiction

[Anonymous No.13505510]

Worst instruction manual ever

[Anonymous No.13505527]

>>13505482
a good plan for the future

[Anonymous No.13506091]

>>13505482
good year

[Anonymous No.13506184]

>>13505482
good but has more flaws than is usually admitted

[Anonymous No.13507067]

>>13505500
yeah, the ending was kind of a drag. You could see it coming at the end.

[Anonymous No.13507103]

>>13505482
Overrated; read this instead.

[Anonymous No.13507120]

>>13507103
Yyyyyyikeeeees

[卐 No.13507133]

>>13505495
O my burther

[Anonymous No.13507184]

>>13505482
"No, no, it isn't sci-fi, it's one of the GOOD ONES"

[Anonymous No.13507212]

>>13507184
It's non-fiction

[Anonymous No.13507226]

The ultimate pleb filter for dystopian fiction. Most of the people who read it don’t understand its ideas and leave with a surface level interpretation at best.

[Anonymous No.13507233]

>>13505482
predicted modern Chinese government 70 years in advance. narrowly missed out on predicting the rest of the world were it not for Reagan-Thatcher

[Anonymous No.13507236]

I dug it, although it's essentially a romance novel that occasionally delves into Orwell's (mostly keen) political observations. It is by far the most compelling in the more mysterious first third of the book before he meets Julia "for real," followed by the solid latter-third and then the at-times-decent-but-kind-of-a-drag middle.

It has some problems in the "show, don't tell" department. I mean there's some spot-on shit that Orwell put in that whole part where you get to read part of the manifesto, but I was tempted to just skip that entire section at times.

[Anonymous No.13507237]

fantastic book, i think people exclusively using it to describe modern forms of totalitarian government (or any form, for that matter) is short sighted and kinda tiring though.

[Anonymous No.13507240]

>>13507212
Nice meme bucko!
>fiction becomes non-fiction over time

[Anonymous No.13507250]

>>13507240
>I don't feel there is anything wrong with the government and private companies steadily but surely encroaching on my privacy

[Anonymous No.13507262]

>>13507250
Wrong book! This isn't Wizard of Oz, your straw man is out of place!

[Anonymous No.13507273]

>>13507212
>1984 is about surveillance

[Anonymous No.13507287]

>>13507262
>>13507273
samefag. you can pretend to be retarded all you want

[Anonymous No.13507288]

>>13507237
What i find most interesting in the book is the concepts related to newspeak, crimestop etc. I see that stuff everywhere, I spent years trying to get rid of it in myself but I probably failed.

[Anonymous No.13507327]

>>13507288
Yeah, I don't have an issue with people taking note of the political relevance it has today, I'm just sick of people seeing a sound byte on the news or whatever and being like 'aw jeez we're in 1984!' with no other discussion or action being taken. It's the same kind of mentality that Orwell wanted to prevent, just idly standing by and making sweeping claims about society with no further discussion/action.

I found the ways in which the society and lack of free will manifested itself within the characters (namely Winston) super interesting.
nice dubs btw

[Anonymous No.13507422]

>>13507287
>can't even decipher baby-tier dystopian fiction
never gonna make it

[Anonymous No.13507447]

>>13507422
This is going to blow your peabrain to pieces but, did you know that an author can write a book that is about more than one thing? I'll give you time to process this incredible amount of information

[Anonymous No.13507833]

>>13507120
What's "yikes" about it?

[Anonymous No.13507841]

All of it sucked except when he was with her and I stopped reading when he started reading the manual and I think I was just supposed to skip it because I'm pretty sure that dude knew it was too dense to actually be read by anyone human

[Anonymous No.13507844]

>>13507273
>implying it isnt

[Anonymous No.13508160]

I read it long ago and i thought it was overrated. It was really hard to finish, boring etc.

[Anonymous No.13508195]

>>13505482
about to get into reading but this is the only book i care to recognize that ive read and i love it

[Anonymous No.13508292]

Why does everyone on this board have such insubstantial and cliche opinions?

Ok, if you're posting here, I get it, you're pretentious and probably insecure. So much so that it's gratifying to post your useless opinion anonymously and imagine people taking you seriously.

But goddamn, does anyone have an authentic and substantial opinion about the book?

I've never read it myself.