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Has everyone read 1984 here, I just got done reading it and wanted to know how everyone else felt about the book.

>> No.19132508

>>19132500
It's pretty lame.

>> No.19132513

>>19132500
Everyone has to read it some time.
Boring prose.
Interesting ideas.
Talked about too much.
Simping gets you caught.
The future is now.
There’s nothing we can do.
Hopefully you read some political theory.
Hopefully it doesn’t make you want to kill yourself.
Hopefully you can find solace in something you do.
Read other books.

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It inspired the Nod from Command & Conquer, a mediocre game made a quarter of a century ago.

>> No.19132531

>>19132500
Its babys first redpill and is exactly of that quality
I cant talk shit about it too much bc of that
But its the exact same reason I can talk shit about it. Bc of that.
When youre first getting into skepticism of power, its great and eye opening. But ultimately its an extremely basic take on future dystopias, and misses the more subtle elements of most other novels on the subject.
Its a cliche opinion, but for example, Brave New World hits far more of the subtleties of what we are experiencing.

>> No.19133007

>>19132500
I found it to be very Orwellian

>> No.19133038

>>19132500
my favorite high schoolcore book besides catcher in the rye maybe

>> No.19133062

>>19132500
Loved is as a teenager. Hated it as an adult.

>> No.19133073

>>19132500
It's a great book. Contrarians/pseuds hate on without giving credit that it's victim of its own influence and midwits focus on shit like "1984 v. BNW: which was right?!" or "OMG! This is just like 1984!"

>> No.19133108

>>19132500
I think they should have made the sex scene longer in the book with more detail

>> No.19133145

>>19132500
Its really well written, astonishingly well written to be honest, the prose is excellent and the exposition is fluid. No clunkiness at all. The sex scenes seem natural and honest and advance the plot and characters. However the ideas and presentation of class and 1930s nomenklatura parties are laughably trite and lacking in insight. The idea of the banality of evil is itself banal, trivial and poorly presented. In fact you could call 1984 a triumph of literature and a failure as a novel of ideas.

>> No.19133151

>>19133038
He rapes his sister, Phoebe.

>> No.19133233

$12 2022

JACK KNOWS

>> No.19133419
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>>19132500
always thought the minor worldbuilding that exists in 1984 was cool

>> No.19133566

>>19132531
/thread

>> No.19133596

1984 is not really about the future, some kind of predictions, lame sex scenes or its dystopic setting.
It's primarily about propaganda and controlled information. How they are used and what they do.
Something like that should always stay relevant.

>> No.19133605

I think It is scary how a lot of it has become real.

>> No.19133639

>>19132508
it gets worse by the page in the end. what are you on about? the theme of a totalitarian state against the will of the individual is brought to the absolute height of the dystopia genre.

>> No.19133645

>>19132500
I thought it had some cool ideas, like the new language being designed.
The last third of the book was a bit sad though.

>> No.19133808

since I was never an american teenager, no, I have not.

>> No.19133826

>>19133808
Its a British book, init?

>> No.19133863

>>19132500
Shit pamphlet. Not real literature. Pure journalism of the highest and most excellent quality, but still journalism masking itself as a novel and nothing else. Orwell was a completely mediocre writer and it's hard to find a sentence in his books which demanded more than a little effort to be written.
Koestler (Darkness at Noon) and specially Nabokov (Bend Sinister, really funny stuff) are way better.

>> No.19133876

>>19132500
it's okay, I have nothing positive to say about it, however if someone mentions it in a snarky way about govt surveillance or authoritarianism I always assume they are braindead