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Nineteen Eighty Four

Mon Oct 31, 2011 9:22 am

Reading it again. Crazy, crazy book how so much has come true.

Orwell must be a time traveller.

Re: Nineteen Eighty Four

Mon Oct 31, 2011 9:43 am

maccydee wrote:Reading it again. Crazy, crazy book how so much has come true.

Orwell must be a time traveller.



A classic of a book, well worth reading more than once :ayatollah:

Re: Nineteen Eighty Four

Mon Oct 31, 2011 9:55 am

It's actually scaring me a little bit though.

I am wondering whether it is just my interpretation of it or whether it is actually THAT clever.

Re: Nineteen Eighty Four

Mon Oct 31, 2011 10:21 am

A classic book, and unfortunately very true and gonna get a lot worse i'm afraid.
Big brother has ruined our privacy.

Re: Nineteen Eighty Four

Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:53 am

maccydee wrote:It's actually scaring me a little bit though.

I am wondering whether it is just my interpretation of it or whether it is actually THAT clever.

It is that clever Macc, Orwell was a genius, his other books are great as well " Animal Farm", " The Road to Wigan Pier", "Down and Out In Paris And London" to name a few :ayatollah: :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

Re: Nineteen Eighty Four

Mon Oct 31, 2011 4:37 pm

blue nile wrote:
maccydee wrote:It's actually scaring me a little bit though.

I am wondering whether it is just my interpretation of it or whether it is actually THAT clever.

It is that clever Macc, Orwell was a genius, his other books are great as well " Animal Farm", " The Road to Wigan Pier", "Down and Out In Paris And London" to name a few :ayatollah: :ayatollah: :ayatollah:


I've read Animal Farm. Thinking I am going to read the others once I have finished 1984.

Re: Nineteen Eighty Four

Mon Oct 31, 2011 4:58 pm

I wonder how a book written now about 2084 would turn out?