1984

[forgiven]

Greatest best book ever.

[Atomsk Iscariot]

You're a tool.

[Liam-M]

i do like that book though...

[forgiven]

this weird , all i say is i like something , and somebody insults me , i'm intrigued.

[DoublePlusGood]

I like it a lot, hence my screen name.

[Jackal]

The year I graduated from high school! We had a "1984"-ish yearbook-using the song by the Police-"I'll be watching You" or whatever it's called. I've read the book 2, can't remember it.

100 fucking years ago. I didn't attend any reunions.

[Barbarian Love Elephant]

I adore it but jeez subtle once?

[Squirrel]

Orwell is like my favourite writer ever, but I like Homage To Catalonia a lot more. George Orwell did some crazy shit in his time, incidentally.

[Kris Klam]

I still need to read Homage To Catalonia.

I like 1984 a lot. I try to read it at least once a year, never really gets old for me. I like Burmese Days a lot as well.

[Peter]

YOU ARE THE DEAD.

Motherfuckers.

Though seriously...if newspeak was real, I'd have the worst fucking time understand it. I know it's like, all simplified and such, but without all my words at my disposal, I'd be totally lost.

[Foxing Peculiar]

Orwell is like my favourite writer ever, but I like Homage To Catalonia a lot more. George Orwell did some crazy shit in his time, incidentally.

Indeed. Isn't there a faction that asserts he worked for MI5 or something?

[Squirrel]

I think he supposedly wrote some report about prominent people who were affiliated with communism and stuff.

And yeah, when he was fighting in the Spanish Civil War and stuff; he was already a successful writer, but he enlisted with the aim of "killing at least one fascist" and spent half a year or so living in a trench, before running up to a fascist parapet, chucking a bomb inside and stealing their telescope. Then he went back to the trench, forgot to keep his head down and got a bullet through the neck, and shortly thereafter his militia unit was outlawed so he had to flee the country with pretty much every fascist spy in Spain one step behind him. Pretty much just as book reseach. :O

[sleepy sinner]

The thing that disturbs me is how much of 1984's war logic (or purposeful LACK of logic i.e 'war on terror') I see in statements all around us today.
It is a great book, one of the most powerful I have ever read. Especially towards the end...harrowing!

[ramblingrose]

We did Down And Out In Paris And London for A level, and this kid in my class said we should live it for a week, and we all laughed at him, and it was only years later I realised he was a genius.

[Mark E. De Sade]

I have kind of a John Hurt fetish, and so I really enjoyed the film. Despite the Eurythmics soundtrack.

[i]

It's one of my very favourite books, but it's also so universally acclaimed it's a bit of a dead topic. Maybe. That's what it seems like to me anyway.

[Joliet's Green Onions]

I read animal farm first, and i like how 1984 seemed like a sequel to AF.

[Peter]

You're a tool.

YOU! ROOM 101, NOW!

[Chaoseffect]

Ha I gotta read this book for English 4. Its actually a book that holds my interest. (Not many books do that)

[Asher]

Ha I gotta read this book for English 4. Its actually a book that holds my interest. (Not many books do that)

I'm reading an abridged version of Richardson's "Clarissa", and repeatedly find myself waking up. 1984 was good but the news media needs to read more because the references are becoming meaningless. I'd love to see CNN reference DeLillo's "White Noise" before I die.

[xamot]

Orwell is like my favourite writer ever, but I like Homage To Catalonia a lot more. George Orwell did some crazy shit in his time, incidentally.
Yes I agree. Its a great book.