Finished reading 1984 recently, anyone who wants to discuss the story?

Finished reading 1984 recently, anyone who wants to discuss the story?

Honestly I feel Animal Farm is a much better books. Love reading everything slowly being corrupted into what basically is 1984.

The story is pretty good but at the end it becomes sort of silly. Orwell is more talented to talk about the inner feelings of an outcast blending in than action scenes or the negotiation wiht big brother. The end is brilliant though.

I thought the story was boring and Orwell was a better non-fiction writer than fiction writer. That said he does present an interesting world where people are trapped by language.

Same. Also no women in Animal Farm.

I fucking loved it. There's so many good things about the book. As a new reader, or someone who just got into reading, this book acts as the perfect bridge to serious literature, all the while maintaining an easy language.

I felt that this book was essentially a political essay encapsulated in a fiction novel, which made it easier for the reader to comprehend and the dystopia that is oligarchical collectivism. The plot was suspenseful and kept me engaged. And I feel that though it is categorised as a political dystopian novel, it also has certain elements of a psychological thriller, which you'll find in part three with concepts like room101, learning doublethink, etc.

Why I did find doublethink noteworthy is how it's not a new concept at all. Everyone does it, you and me, everyone. I'm religious yet I believe in evolution. I don't rule out creationism or evolution. I believe in BOTH and have two contradicting opinions simultaneously in my head, but use the one which is needed at that time.

Orwell has also divided his book into three parts and I think he did this before he wrote the book because it feels like each part deals with different things, the first part is character setting and building the background, the second part is when they go rogue and the third part is when they face repercussions. And I feel that this division of the book into parts ensured that the rate of progression of the flow of continuity was constant and smooth. It didn't feel rushed or slowed at any part.

I am not a prolific reader. I just got into books. Yet, I know when in future, I will have read more than a hundred books, this one will still be in my top five.

is this a copy pasta?

No desu this was my genuine review. Is it so bad that it's memeworthy?

Agreed. I think the end is lazy more than anything. And that plot-dump explaining the ideology through "the book"...ugh.
I don't think 1984 is very psychologically sound or shows much insight of humanity, either.

Basically it rips most of its good stuff from Brave New World, and it doesn't even do it well.

It is now. Get ready for the storm m8s.

It sounds like a reddit comment so probably

It's fucking annoying for perpetuating infantile anti-socialist arguments, from people who don't realize the irony of it being written by a socialist opposed to Marxism-Leninism.

On a scale of "things I'll never read or watch because of how obnoxious its fans are" I would put this on the level of Fight Club. There's just something very off putting about it with the way people treat it so I'll never read it because I don't want to become one of those people that constantly reference it and tell other people to read it.

What's ironic about an anti-socialist writing anti-socialist fiction?

amazing books as everyone knows deserves his classic status without a doubt .

I would recommend fahrenheit 451 and brave new world next . the big 3 of dystopian novels are really really worth it .


in 84 i especially love the world building in the first like 250 pages .
From the mandatory morning gymnastics to the shitty cigarette . discovering all the madness and frustration that the Protagonist has to go through. It gives me what i crave most in literature that alien feel of being thrown into a world you dont yet understand but thats opened up page by page.

>First time on Veeky Forums in ages.
>Come across this.

>i let other people tell me what to do

The book is interesting, especially if read as exploring language. The essay appended to the end is a favourite of mine. Pynchon wrote a good intro to it for the 2003 edition.

>being this blinkered

>yfw it was the epilogue
>yfw the Party collapsed before the dictionary could be adopted

>but at the end it becomes sort of silly.

I think the end is the best part of the book and conveys the horror of totalitarianism really well.

I think the love parts were the most cringe-worthy shit.

I liked when he went looking for answers and talked with the old man over that beer, trying to find about the world before the revolution

Jesus

ending was the best part of the novel
big brother is watching

The parts where he fucked the woman gave me little kid boners.

lol?

i haven't laughed at something on Veeky Forums in so long

thanks dude, that was great

this tbqh

>ywn have a qt hand you a piece of paper saying that she loves you
;_;

What a coincidence, I also have finished reading it. I only just started seriously reading, but I thought it was good, especially since here in my country, something like that has certainly happened in the past. I'm a Filthypino.

>I only just started seriously reading
When did you plan to start?

Last month. I've always been so busy with college that I hadn't time to read. It's Christmas vacation and I bought some easy books (like 1984 and The Metamorphosis). I started reading around last week. I think I won't stop reading now.

>"i hate her. I want to slit her throat"
>ILY
>"y-you too"
what a beta

A reminder that 1984 was nothing more than a ripoff of Zamyatin's We.

Winston's life was kind of shit before too desu, was it necessary?