Reading 1984 by G. Orwell. What are you reading today?

even worse lmao.
>laughing so hard at you rn

just some Yeats love poems for today

huh

Is George Orwell the most important man of the twentieth century?

he was ok.

You're cute. I'd fuck you in your boipussy.

I'm reading Wittgenstein's Philosopical Investigations §89-133 along with Stern's introductory volume.

The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury and Swann's Way by Marcel Proust.

Not even close, my dear boy.

A good book.
Source: I'm not reading 1984 by G. Orwell

The Iliad and Borge's short stories.

While also trying to write secondary school coursework on Nineteen Eighty-Four. And fuck Orwell for not just using numbers, I've got to type that out every time.

Already read The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Lord Jim.

Little bit of Demian in german, some crappy icelandic poetry and selected essays of Schopenhauer. Comfy day so far.

Are Ray's other books any good? I admit I've only read Fahrenheit and although it was decent for such a short book, I've heard his other books are better but I haven't read them yet.

Kill yourself you fucking shitwad

Struggling to work out if this is bait or if user is just another Veeky Forums fuccboi

Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara
What Narcissism Means to Me by Tony Hoagland
Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs by William T Vollmann
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac

Finished reading Spiegelman's Maus and now I'm starting Dostoevsky's Crime & Punishment (I tried reading it back when I was 15 but it went way over my head so I'm attempting it again at 23 and so far I'm really enjoying it).

I'm going to walk to the park and read some Lovecraft and maybe the pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho.

Kerouac was such a bummer by that time, I think he wrote while hammered just to make it interesting.

The Iliad. It's hilarious and exciting! Wasn't really expecting it, I had braced myself for something far drier.

Oh, it's the Lombardo translation, in case you want to prove your superiority by pointing out how it's the wrong translation for me to read.

Is it true that americans are literally FORCED to read 1984 as a form of brainwashing agains 'muh evil commiez' ?
I knew american propaganda was strong but I wasn't aware it was this straightforward

End thyself, baby

Not sure if trolling.
Seriously I can't even read Veeky Forums without questioning if the responses are ironic or not, you make it look so sincere it's hard to figure out.

How is 1984 propaganda? Would you actually advocate for the world that is presented in the story?

-propaganda
noun
1.
derogatory
information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

Why? Is the pilgrimage a bad book? I bought it on a whim and haven't touched it in forever. I'm not trolling or are you trolling yourself and I'm too basic to understand?

I am reading Lolita and I am enjoying it, I was going to read something by Orwell next, but I don't want to read 1984 or animal farm cause I did them years ago in school, Is anything else he wrote particularly worth reading? Please feel free to patronise me and tug yourselves off

Nyggarna by Moberg

It's propaganda for anti-totalitarian regimes, and somehow, you don't think it prudent for students to read it.
That's what you meant, user?

1984 actually calls up for a full proletarian uprise. I don't think the American government would want that.

I hate how much people misinterpreted 1984.

fucked that up, Nybyggarna*

I have a copy of Something Happened, by Joseph Heller, sitting on the table.

It gives the impression that the editor was cowed by the author's reputation. So much filler. So many bad ideas. And it goes on for five hundred pages. I don't think I'm gonna bother with this one.

American Pastoral - The second part is getting pretty good, but it started fairly poorly.

I read every night if I'm not out, and I follow this order:
>First, a little bit of the Bible; I'm reading the Psalms at the moment
>Secondly, a couple of pages of the dictionary. Every word I know nothing or very little about I write down and research it the next day
>Thirdly, a nonfiction book. At the moment I'm reading a book about the history of capitalism by some German guy
>Fourthly, a belletristic book, which is at the moment Laughter in the Dark by Nabokov

If I read poetry, I tend to read it during the day, going trough the whole book in one sitting.

im really embarking on Ulysses this weekend
managed to make it through stephen's beach monologue largely okay. how much more difficult does it get?

Junky

I'm writer?

Red Dawn by Pio Baroja (nothing to do with the retarded films with the same name)

I've just finished Everyday Zen by Joko Beck, and I'll move on to Ethics by Spinoza.

It's babby's first philsophical book, so what should I expect?

Enjoy it while you can, if you're doing so. It goes to shit in the 3rd chapter.

Also, reading the Iliad and listening to I, Robot when i can.

I'm playing video games today.

just chillin' at the park XD

I watched Farewell My Concubine today, and that one scene where Shitou starts confessing shit in the end reminded me of 1984 somehow.
Anyway, not reading anything today. Last thing I read was Hard Boiled Wonderland (inb4 meme author, inb4 cuckakami), and I liked it.

Look at this bitches face, "even pretending to read is too hard. Fuck, I'm high. I think I'll go kill myself. lol lyfe so hard."

crash by jg ballard
i think my exposure to Veeky Forums bullshit has dulled the impact this book should have.

i think she said she doesn't really understood it and just enjoyed the beauty of the words which makes her patrician

Ansichten eines Clowns. It's awful.

>"lol how come reading is so easy, i just open the last page of the book and it's finished"

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

I've never read Orwell but I've got a copy of Burmese Days, is it worth a read?

How is 1984 against Communism? It's against Stalin and the particular forms of communism he practiced, but Orwell was a staunch supporter of socialism until the day he died.

1984 even makes arguments that the only way to overthrow the totalitarian style government of the party is with a full proletariat uprising.

How could you possibly get the message of the book so wrong? Like, this is literally high school tier stuff.

Orwell was a far better essayist than novelist, I'd look for a collection of his essays, they're pretty easy to find.

ur qt

I recommend Down and Out in Paris and London and Homage to Catalonia. They're awesome books.

Well Americans might be taught that it's about communism, but it's not really about communism at all & only a very incompetent reading of the book would lead you to believe it was. Orwell was a democratic socialist & saw Soviet style 'communism' as the most threatening thing there was to the original idea of socialism. He was specifically criticizing totalitarianism in his book.

>It's not about communism, it's about "communism"!
Nice one guys