/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.1761405]

What makes 1984 such a widely-loved book? I read it and I was bored out of my fucking mind.

[Anonymous No.1761407]

Hippie paranoia.

[Dave No.1761410]

High school reading, times perfectly with the teenage spirit of 'rebellion'

[Anonymous No.1761411]

it poses some interesting ideas on the relationship of a government and its constituents.

that's all that I liked about it, the first half of the book was slow as hell

[Anonymous No.1761416]

>>1761410

Basically this.
High-school entry-level bullshit.

[Anonymous No.1761426]

"I wanted to rape you and murder you when I saw u" - Male Protagonist

"Haha cool" -Love interest

Yeah classic book!!!

[Anonymous No.1761430]

>>1761426
Your disregarding how fucked up the place they come from is. That dialogue makes sense because the world around them teaches them that sex is bad and only serves the state and violence is the answer to everything. Naturally they have unhealthy ideas about sexuality.

[Anonymous No.1761434]

I was supposed to read that back in school but I never ended up reading it.

[Anonymous No.1761444]

you're an idiot if you didn't see how true this book is today

[Anonymous No.1761452]

>>1761444

>this is what teenagers really believe

[Anonymous No.1761453]

>>1761444
Go read Brave New World, and then tell me what's true today.

[Anonymous No.1761455]

>>1761453
they're completely different you moron. one does not cancel the other out.

[Anonymous No.1761461]

>>1761453
Go read Anthem, and then tell me what's true today.

[Anonymous No.1761465]

>>1761453
>>1761461
Go read Twilight, and then tell me what's true today.

[Anonymous No.1761469]

>>1761453

Sorry but BNW is an incredibly boring read.

[Anonymous No.1761470]

I wouldn't say that I love it...
However, I've read a lot of Horror fiction in my time, but this book was the only book that really, truly horrified me.

It was one point in the story that did it, when this feeling hit me.

[Anonymous No.1761476]

>>1761453
This. The modern world is rapidly moving towards that of BNW. My quandary is that I'm unsure whether it's necessarily a bad thing. Though ofc it is for lit.

[Anonymous No.1761483]

>implying 1984 was written to entertain some stupid teenager from 2011

[Anonymous No.1761498]

OP: What makes it widely loved is its long-standed place on the syllabus. Widely-read books are going to get more love, it's the law of averages. In fact I would agree with you on this one.

[Anonymous No.1761508]

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>>1761426
Yeah, I got the same feeling reading that book that George Orwell probably didn't lose his virginity until he was well over the age of thirty six.

[Anonymous No.1761530]

>>1761426
>moby dick femnaz detected

Thar she blows boys, thar she blows.

[Anonymous No.1761539]

>>1761530

[Anonymous No.1762241]

>>1761444
Emmanuel Goldstein - Al Qaeda
2 minutes hate - Pledge of Allegiance/fox news
Telescreen - Surveillance cams
hate week - veterans day/flag day/ other non holidays
Junior Anti-Sex league - state- mandated sex ed that teaches children to be abstinent.
Though police - Department of Homeland Security
Ministry of "peace" - Department of "Defense" (both called exact opposites of what they are)
Newspeak - Political Correctness.
Our wars in the middle east are much like 1984's perpetual warfare. Enemies change frequently (USA helped Afghanistan in USSR-Afghan war) "Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia."
Miniplenty - FDA/USDA
Minitrue - fox news/FCC
Miniluv - Gitmo
Civilians are encouraged to spy on each other to ensure that they aren't enemies of the state. The DHS spreads paranoia. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czoww2l1xdw

[Anonymous No.1762280]

>>1761426
Sex in their society is repressed for all purposes except to make faithful new members of the party.

[Anonymous No.1762517]

>>1762280
>implying this wasn't the case in Britain before the sixties anyway (except for the Party bit)