How many have read 1984?

Refnu

1984. How have I not known about this book for so long up untill now. We are required to read this book in my government class. I love books like these, I love ideas like these. Sometimes it angers me that it took untill my senior year of HS for a good book to be assigned ha.

But anyways, my parents have read this book, everyone I talk to (over the age of 18) have read this book. So I was wondering how many of you have read this book and if you liked it or not.

tetsul

Yes I read it, no I didn't like it. I found it got dull the further you got into it. Not Rainbow Six dull, but dull none the less. I also found people swallowed the stories way too easy.

Refnu

I'm about a third into it now I think. So if what you say is true then itll be gettin worse from here ha. What I enjoyed the beginning about it I guess was the explaining of how the government worked and just how the world was.

Erahn

1984 was a mandatory read for me in middle school. Although I know it is actually banned at one local private high school in my area. A neighbor of mine gave a copy to her daughter and it was confiscated.

Edit: The writing is hideously boring, but the conveyance is good. Not somehtign I would reread for entertainment ever.

tetsul

Well it was just to me, everyone has their own opinions. Although I did like the comment to his woman 'you're only a rebel from the waist downwards'

Edit - I didn't mind Animal Farm (the manditory read for me in school) At least I didn't find it nearly as boring.

Xexima

I don't like George orwell's writing, to boring.  If you are to write a satire, atleast make it funny or interesting...  I prefer Ayn Rand's writings.

baff

I did Down and Out in Paris and London and Animal Farm.

Both were good. I teach Animal farm quite often.

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I prefer to read sci fi. Space opera's and stuff like that. 

Homieslice

i didn't like this book. I think Georgy was a little bit to paranoid. wtf was hate week? I haven't read it in 4 years lol.

cloudoffire

I have read both stories and i have to admit i liked animal farm better. 

Your lucky you read stories like that in high school im stuck to reading Huck finn over and over:(

WantsumBier

I read 1984 in 1982 in jr high. I too was bored by the writing , but it did cast some interesting images. What I remember most is the TV (flat screen) that monitored you... knda interesting.

I liked adn hated amimal farm, but I enjoyed it much more than 1984.

Refnu

whats this animal farm book about? I've heard of it but don't really know what its like.

Blurr

Read the book, saw the movie, lived through the year, lol.

Interestingly enough, I think the guy who starred in the 1984 movie was also the guy who was the big bad dictator in 'V for Vendetta '.

Animal Farm I never read but from my understanding, it's about a bunch of animals on a farm that go through a bunch of political stuff and the different animals are supposed to represent different countries or ethnicities or something.

PyscoJuggalo

Read both Animal Farm and 1984 and loved em both.


Ofcourse I generally hate most tevevision programming so I am not in the norm.

kimosabe

1984 as a book, was overall pretty decent. It had an interesting story, some slow parts. some exciting parts, but the writing is really boring. The end starts to pick back up again, but the ending (last paragraph), in my opinion, is the worst part of the book. As a satire, it's horrible. The best satire I've read has to be "Candide", followed closely by "How I Became Stupid" both are really great, and funny, books that are pure reading entertainent.

Infliction

I for one thought the book was pretty dull. George Orwell's writing as a whole kinda bored me. I absolutely hated Animal Farm. V for Vendetta on the other hand is pretty much an action-packed 1984 with a better storyline, awesome movie 

tetsul

Animal Farm was about the animals chasing away the drunken farmer and taking control of the farm for themselves. They starts out with the concept of equality but slowly falls into a corrupt dictatorship. It's pretty much an animal version of the Soviet Union.

Refnu

Oh Thanks for reminding me. I have to see V for Vendetta sometime. I've heard really great things about that movie.

hazmats

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Originally posted by Refnu
Oh Thanks for reminding me. I have to see V for Vendetta sometime. I've heard really great things about that movie.

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I thought it sucked.

And to the person that said they like Ayn Rand..... you might like a fantasy series by Terry Goodkind.  Called the "Sword of Truth."  I havn't actually read all of Ayn Rand's stuff,,.. but the Goodkind says that Rand is the "inspiration" (bad word, couldn't think of anything else) for the books.

JelloB2000

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Originally posted by hazmats

Originally posted by Refnu Oh Thanks for reminding me. I have to see V for Vendetta sometime. I've heard really great things about that movie.I thought it sucked.
And to the person that said they like Ayn Rand..... you might like a fantasy series by Terry Goodkind. Called the "Sword of Truth." I havn't actually read all of Ayn Rand's stuff,,.. but the Goodkind says that Rand is the "inspiration" (bad word, couldn't think of anything else) for the books.

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"Sword of truth" is really really good fantasy-series, you can count it as "grown-up" fantasy (although I think its the 3rd book that goes on a bit much about politics).

Vertex1980

I don't read.