"This book is essentially the same as 'The Brave New World' but expressed in a totally different way."
"It was a very good description of life during anti-social time"
"The greatest prose stylist the English language has produced."
"must we really keep reading in full detail the horror and disgust of Winston's vericose veins?!"
"This is a good example of the fact that pessimistic and shocking books often receive rave criticism while dynamically optimistic books are dubbed 'unrealistic'... NO further comment."
"DON'T READ ANY GEORGE ORWELL. Your just waisting your time."
"The book was a great read and a good use of time. I personally think big brother is the man."
"Orwell has an imaginative mind, I must say, but thuis book talks about 1949, when he published it when there were such things as totalitarism. How could he know it would still be the exact same thing in 1984? This book also has strange events. The author skipped around too many times. At one sentence, he would be in the appartment in Winston's home, and without telling a reason for it, he would be some where else."
"The words are difficult. I had no clue what was really going on. It would be less boring if it was shorter and broken down so it would be easier to understand. You might like this book if you are interested in predicting the future and you can read lots of difficult words and know what they mean."
"People would complain of sexism and demand a 'big sister.' As ideals of beauty changed and people decided that Big Brother's omnipresent facade was unnatractive (too fat, maybe) they would lose all respect for him."
"I have to ask, 'What's the point?' Maybe if you live in a country that's a monarchy, this book's worth reading, but this is *America*, ok? The whole reason we live in a democracy is so that we the people don't have to worry about things like this."
"Unlike Mr Orwell apparently, I can actually remember 1984 and believe you me some of his recollections of the era are well off the mark."
"THS BOOK SHOULD NOT BE READ UNLESS YOU LOVE THE DESTRCTION OF THE WONDERFUL HUMAN NATURE GOD CREATED."
"CONFUSING!!!
tHE BOOK WAS ABOUT A GUY NAMED WINSTON WHO FOUND A DIARY AND WROTE HIS FEELING IN IT WHICH WAS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN. I THOUGHT THE BOOK WAS RATHER BORING AND CONFUSING TO READ. I DIDNT UNDERSTAND MOST OF THE THINGS HE WAS TALKING ABOUT. WHEN READING THE BOOK I SUGGEST THAT YOU PAY CLOSE ATTENTION SO THAT YOU UNDERSTAND IT COMPLETELY AND WONT BE CONFUSED."
"R-E-J-E-C-T-E-D
This particular piece of literature, entitled 1984 and written by Goerge Orwell, was 1980 boring. Being a seventeen year old teenager, with a mind of my own, made it extremely difficult to stay focused on something so morbid and [weak] as this so-called "classic." I can sum up my thoughts of this book using few words...Reading this book was like HELL! And for those of you who are more visual, it was like trying to keep a white T-shirt clean while eating spaghetti."
"For me the book took a downword turn during the time where Winston started having a love affair with some girl. This girl latter became a thought police inforcer, which surprised me none. I found the book to be a bore of a read and very predictable. My advise to all of you fair readers is to steer clear of this vile book. You will live longer because of it."
"For the people who read and enjoyed this book...GET A LIFE!"
"Quote from '1984': 'Humanity is nothing more than one man shoving another man's face in the mud'
So, '1984' tells us that humans are completely useless and we have no reason to exist."
"It was just thoughts of a sad man with perverse and suspicouis thoughts."
"I think it's absolutely disgusting that just about every book that we had to read in freshman English had sex in it."
"This book isn't as good as Harry Potter in MY opinion, and no one can refute me. Tastes are relative!"
"Nice try George
The main character, Winston Smith, spends his time throughout the novel trying to overthrow The Party and Big Brother, while running from the "Thought Police," a justice department that monitors the thoughts of citizens of Oceana, the predicted future state of London, England. Winston fails in his attempts. He is captured, set up by people whom he believed to be on his side, and is later brainwashed into loving and following Big Brother.
Great attitude George. I truly believe that Orwell's sole purpose for writing this novel was to encourage anarchy, and to convince his readers to be subordinate to authority ... Let's try to be a little more optomistic, and work on a happier ending, shall we?"
"The plot is fairly simplistic but with redundant lines. 'Oceania has always been war with Eastasia.' 'Freedom is slavery.' 'Big Brother is watching you.' In other words, it was nothing but a lot of nonsensical fillers."
"The book has multiple plot holes as well. Beware the 'government runs the world unchallenged, but still needs to brainwash old people' hole."
ANOTHER PLOT HOLE: IN THE OPENING PAGES, WE SEE WINSTON WALKING HOME. BUT THEN HE GETS HOME! AND IF HE'S HOME, WHY DID HE NEED TO WALK HOME AT ALL? YOUR MOVE, ORWELL
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