Glad you dug into it Scott. A worthwhile read. Now, are you ready for Animal Farm?

I've already read it several times. Great book.

One step ahead of me Scott *S*.

Scott,

It is whimsical how most people today don’t understand that an essay, which i am sure this is, is used to make others aware of possibilities such as 1984 is still relevant today. There are many takes I have on this subject. One being that you are know better than "Big Brother" and the other is that you are doing exactly what Winston was trying to do(and from writing this I may be falling into the same trap as he).

`In addition, to what you have said about the invasion of privacy, in New York they have in stalled hundreds and hundreds of monitory cameras on streets and in subways.

I, a self-confessed alcoholic, see the purpose of the victory Jin. Alcohol is the only readily available inebriate in the United States. Under the affects of alcohol one can be easily persuaded of transformed into persistently stubborn. In 1984, Jin was used as a way to weed out undesirables. Today it is use to make us to drunk to have a say in anything. There were no laws against it in 1984 (not that I know of). Alcohol is basically considered illegal today. In this day and age I know a lot of people who drink and become rather truthful in the way a messiah would be considered a speaker of ‘the truth’.

The foremost thing I see in today’s society relating to 1984 is our new and ‘loved’ president who shares the same name as the first president of the united sates (the president that was never really taught to an extent in public schools due to his lack of contributions of bettering the entire world). G. W. has come up with words like pluralism, which have no meaning today considering the standardized English language. I am sure you can comprehend the meaning of a word like that considering ‘Newspeak’. After my spell check I have been proven wrong to the origin of this word. Still, the orientation of this word has a weight greater than I am willing to bear (or Winston is willing for that matter). It may be the dialect (the one with a southern draw and lack of keep-up) to the English language that Bush possesses that makes me come to the conclusion of Bush being no better than ‘Big Brother’. This never ending war on terrorism is the same as the world war fought in ‘1984’ (the war on drugs also comes to mind; I may be wrong, but was the war on drugs not enticed by G. W.’s father? If I am they are the same things; drug and terrorism, they even made drugs be the endorsant of terrorism).

I am drunk and prove the point of today’s society or maybe I don’t really care about the drunken madness I have possibly just created. No matter what I write people will just keep on fueling the economy with blind faith just as the people in ‘1984’ favored ‘Big Brother’ over themselves. Maybe I should speak up above all the conformity of the world and act upon my desires. In 1984 desire was not a word contrived in their new optimist never-never land.

Douglas M. McCue

p.s. get back to me please,
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and i could have made my first suporting topic suport more if i didn't write this as quickly as iu did... thanks for reading (who ever)

I predicted this during a previous administration.

Okay... umm... douglas M. Mcue... THAT JUST SOUNDED STUPID (which I am sure you are) hahaha

wow did i write that... you are right... i need to be shot in the face...

hi everybody!yes,it is true,the book is timeless and also relevant for our 21.century.
bye daniel

wow i cant believe i wrote something so...so....FUKIN TERRIBLE i think i need to be hung then have my balls amputated and fed to starving african greyhounds then have my appendix removed and slowly blled to death while watching my wife fuking my arch enemy and enjoying it

doug, get some professional help and some self esteem

I COUDNT BE BOTHERED 2 READ IT LOL

Despite the extremely intelligent comments from some of the other contributors on this website, I thought it was a very good review :D

I just read 1984. It was a spooky book. What even more spooky is the number of articles like this onw on the web dated recently as 2002. Who knows how closely watched we are now.

A truly creepy book, one I won't forget for awhile.

Oh, and Douglas? Please, for the sake of the world, get mental help.

i will be using this for school........Thanx

thanks, i used the articles you have the links posted on here to write a paper and do a project. i appreiciate it.

anyone can be anyone on this shit page
please dont go around all high and mighty

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hey dumbass... whats your point?

It is probably one of the most terrible and frightning looks into where intellectuals and scholars alike saw the world heading after the rise of Communism and the totalitarian states seen in pre-WW2 and during. Sadly, we have taken this book a little to much for granted, can we not similarities in our society today? The Patriot act--the government can watch our purchasing receipts, our phone calls, even read our private e-mails. There's litterally and we've known this but not said much about this but there's a camera in every isle of the grocery store, hospital, etc. We're being watched all the time! Also if your in the mood for some side-splitting laughter and a overall good time hammering on the policies of the Christian right come to the site. www.ihatepatrobertson.com---its a non-register site for guests and a good forum.!

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1984 was PUBLISHED in 1949

1984 was WRITTEN in 1948 not 1949. the last two digits where swapped for the title. 48 into 84.

if you would be so kind as to fix it.

Has anyone read 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand? It's equally as frightening and thought provoking. Not as well known as Orwell's 1984, but I think a classic in it's own right whether you agree or disagree with Ayn Rand's politics.

Regards Bob.

I enjoyed your review Scott, and I also love "1984". Anyone who enjoyed reading "1984" would probably like reading other books with dark visions of the future, including "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley and "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury (these, alone with "1984", are probably the most famous and most referenced futuristic books. They are also both very well-written and good reads in their own right, as opposed to being boring books you just read because you feel like you have to. "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood is another good one.

How young and naive you were at the time you read that book. I wonder what score you would give it today.