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Good Points: This is a classic that fantastically makes its readers hate totalitarian government for giving the characters such a hard time.

General comments: "It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen." This is the first sentence of an immortal classic narrating Winston Smith's life under the dictatorship of Oceania headed by Big Brother. Sex and family have been turned from things of pleasure in people's lives to means of control over them. Everyone is divided into three classes: the Inner Party, controlled by Big Brother to a limited extent and living in comfort, the proles, poor but free, and the Outer Party, who are monitered 24/7 and living in poverty. Oceania is at war with Eurasia (later Eastasia). When Winston Smith buys a blank book with the intention of writing a diary in it, he has guilty feelings, knowing that it is thoughtcrime. In this diary, he writes of his former life before the war and in it, you see his inner longing to be free of Big Brother once and for all. This is an excellent book and it is a shame that I only know one teenager who has read it. Everyone 13 and older should read this, in my opinion.

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Novels depicting an individual staving off an infinitely more powerful foe are often, while enjoyable, set in fantasy universes that ultimately have no relevance to real life and leave no lasting impression on the reader. However; the primary reason that THIS book is so effective at gripping the reader is because every event is actually feasible. Written in the aftermath of world war two; when it seemed more than likely that nationalism and tyranny would grip the entire planet, this book provid ...

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1984 by George Orwell is a highly antagonistic book of a totalitarianism government in a time of instability. The protagonist and narrator of the story is a man named Winston who believes that the government has been corrupting it's people into believe certain people or events never occured.

Parts of the novel seem to be able to link to everyday life governments and their actions within their countries, and more and more nations are using their own form of doublespeak to make deep or embarras ...

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George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four - This is one of the few books that I think everyone should be made to read! It is such an incredible story, and yet so plausible when you are reading it. Bits of this book often spring to mind during my everyday life, which I think is always a sign of a good book.

It is certainly a disturbing book, but in my view a very important one and it really makes you confront a lot of difficult issues.

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George Orwell, 1984 - I very much enjoyed 1984 by George Orwell. Orwell had a terrifying vision of the world we were gradually becoming in 1949. Though 1984 is long gone, his concerns can still be applicable today.
Winston Smith is a lone protagonist in a corrupt totalitarian socialist society called Ingsoc where one has no "friends," only "comrades." Orwell orchestrates a fearful and depressing image of a loss of individuality, freedom, and truth through his character Smith and his experien ...

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George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four - In this totalitarian nightmare, Winston Smith who works for the Inner Party's propaganda machine in the Ministry of Truth, finds hope, despite being forbidden, by writing and falling in love with Julia. However, their desperate struggle for freedom is crushed by the Thought Police. One of the most important political satires ever written. I urge everyone to read this truly brilliant book.

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Nineteen-eighty-four by George Orwell is undisputably one of the most important pieces of political fictiion. It was written during a period of unprecedented political instability when we saw the end of the world's great imperial powers and the rise of a new age of politics. Democracy, Fascism and Communism were competing for dominance and the final conclusion of this struggle could not be predicted by anyone. The book was written back in 1949, with the author, Goeorge Orwell, looking towards th ...