1984 - Anyone read it?

[SLVRSR4]

I would have liked a different ending, and i don't think social classes will ever get that distinguished. Still good though

 

[USMC]

this doesn't require orginisation. just timing. if the timing is right then orginisation happens after that. people need to be inspired to do the same and quickly. in 1984 it is the lower class that needs inspiring.

V did it nicely.

 

[USMC]

i don't think social classes will ever get that distinguished.

It's happening now.

 

[Rambo, John J]

Spoiler

But there was that moment when they met briefly after the Ministry of Love.

Spoiler

He was broken. Orwell made a point at that meeting - that she'd betrayed him just as surely as he'd betrayed her. That the influence and dominance of BB over the individual was so complete, so total; that the individual would believe whatever BB wanted them to believe, where once previously they might have known it to be contradictory.

Last line in the book - He learned to love Big Brother. (Or something to that effect)

Rockin' book.

 

[USMC]

Dude, use a spoiler tag, Malice hasn't finished the book.

 

[Danalys]

i really should read brave new world sometime. obviously drug culture inspired. and there has been a drug culture for at least the past 5000 years. it's an extention of the effect foods can have on us.

 

[The Man Of 16]

One really good audiobook that I began listening to at work is "Enders Game". The damn itunes folder it was in got messed up and now 30 chapters are missing. The voiceover was so good and Im really starting to get back into reading because of audiobooks. The problem with me before was that when I read things, it just gets really boring in my head unless I can imagine the voices of the characters in the stories.


So far in the last 2 weeks Ive purchase many books.
Access All Areas (about urban exploration)
Ultimate Spiderman Volumes 2, 5, & 12
and Amazing Spiderman 531, 532, 533, 534


Oh and one really good book I read when I was in grade 10 was "Charly". It was about this mentally handicapped guy who had an experiment done to him to make him smarter. Then you see how his life drastically changes for the better, then the worse. It was really good and Its highly recommended. If you dont like reading you can get the movie version of it. The actor who plays Uncle Ben in the spiderman movies was the star of it.

 

[Danalys]

V did it nicely.

V vs O'brien. wonder who'd win.

 

[USMC]

You should read the Dark Tower series. Possibly one of the best series of books I've ever read...

 

[USMC]

V vs O'brien. wonder who'd win.

V!

Wow. That looks good.

 

[kainedamo]

V did it nicely.

The Party is a much better system than the one V fought against. Plus, V is a superhero.

 

[USMC]

With a lousy costume.

 

[Danalys]

V!

Wow. That looks good.

it'd look good in a bed room but on the big screen it would be a travesty.

 

[USMC]

Can't be much worse that Superman Returns.

 

[Danalys]

i can't see how anyone could actually bring about the party as it stands. i can't believe they could ever work together. they'd be to busy back stabbing each other or preparing for that eventuality.

 

[kainedamo]

The proles are the only chance for the Party to be toppled. But it's so slim.

1. The proles are too apathetic.

2. The proles lack the education and intellect to even realise there is something wrong with their lifes.

3. Even the few people that would be able to recognise that they could have a better life would lack the will to do it.

You have to remember, these people think they're at war with another nation. They are reminded of this by constant bombings. These bombings keep their minds off the fact that their government is a fascist state.

The very nature of the Party is to devolve the human race. Each new generation is dumber than the last. Each new generation has less and less of an idea of what the world was like before the Party and Big Brother. In just a couple of generations after 1984, everything the Party is would be well ingrained into the people. 50 years after 1984, everyone would speak in DoubleSpeak, meaning the people wouldn't even be able to think of the words to describe feelings of rebellion or anything. It's a perfect fascist state.

 

[SentinelMind]

Read 1984...I'll admit in the middle is tedious, but the end was twisty, gripping and I couldn't put it down to the final....

..second.

 

[Bana]

I liked Animal Farm better cause the end to 1984 kinda sucked.. but it's still a good book

 

[\S/JcDc\S/]

1984, my favorite book of all time It had a dramatic effect on future writings as well as sci fi related stories. Even in movies we see plenty that have been influenced largely by 1984.