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How does it hold up in the current day? Is it's ideals and messages still relevant in the current day like everyone memes it is?

>> No.15105153

For a political work of fiction, it holds up surprisingly well. The issues it addresses are still very relevant today.
The last 70 years have rendered it a work of alternate history rather believable soft science fiction so the horror story it tells doesn't pack quite as much of a punch today as it probably did back in the day. Or maybe it's even more frightening today, as the same 70 years produced non-fiction works the likes of Solzhenitsyn's.
If you are debating whether you should read it, do. It's one of the most talked about novels of all time, not overly long and a hallmark of dystopian fiction, however faint praise this is.

>> No.15105171

>>15105153
>Solzhenitsyn
>Non-fiction

>> No.15105190

DUDE DRUMF IS BIG BROTHER LMAO

>> No.15105287

>>15104586
As alternative fiction it's good. And yeah, I agree with the earlier anon - as a work of political fiction it holds up surprisingly well. It's good as a baby's first actual book, it helped to make me take ideas more seriously anyway.

>> No.15105381

It's actually underrated because plebs and normies just think it's about surveillance and that's only like 3% of what Orwell was trying to say.

>> No.15105420

>>15105381
This.

1984 is actually redpill as fuck, it's one of those books where there is no empty prose. Every detail about Airstrip One is some kind of commentary on his contemporary society, nothing is insignificant. The fact that it seems like some kind of absurd satire of the 21st century yet was written in the 1940s is nothing short of genius.

The biggest plebs of them all are the ones that parrot e-pseud shit like "Huxley got it more right than Orwell. Except in China I guess". They just prove they didn't understand 1984.

>> No.15105440

>>15104586
The part that most normies find really boring, the long read from the political book about how language can be used as an instrument of control and propaganda, is actually the most relevant and interesting in my opinion. The big brother stuff and surveillance is secondary.

>> No.15105452

Did you guys read the New Speak manual before you started or at the end on your first read?

For me it was at the end.

>> No.15105497

>>15105420
I read Brave New World and then read 1984 immediately after it, and 1984 makes Brave New World look like a shitty YA novel. Huxley was right about a few things, but Orwell understood the big picture.

>> No.15105509

>>15105440
That was the part of the book that gripped me the most. Normies truly have terrible taste in everything.

>> No.15107023

>>15105190
Wow, what a fucking idiot.

>> No.15107067

>>15104586
not really. kinda in regards to behaviour/language policing but that's nothing unique.