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A Quick Tip by peoplepowergranny

Jun 2, 2010

by peoplepowergranny
posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More

A classic that may yet tell the future, although by now about 20 years later.

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Quick Tip by thorjanke. December 02, 2011

posted in SF Signal

A Quick Tip by thorjanke

i do not like it ---I love it! this is my favourite dystopia

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review by Valsviews. June 23, 2009

MUCH ADO ABOUT 'SOMETHING'

This negative utopia called "1984" was written in 1948. The author, George Orwell, (whose real names were Eric Arthur Blair) was already dying of tuberculosis (in his native England) when it was completed. The book used metaphors to convey the author's perception of the Soviet Union. It has all the essences of a future read: at least in that 1948 when it was first published. And like the "Animal Farm" before it, offers its reader only one functional gear: forward. I often enjoy … more

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review by jelundberg. February 23, 2011

posted in SF Signal

Thoughtspeaking Truth to Power

There are very few writers whose work has been so profound that their names have become adjectives. Shakespearean. Kafkaesque. Orwellian. 1984 remains George Orwell's greatest legacy, a fact shared by Roberto Bolano's novel 2666; both books with a four-digit number as the title, both written frantically by authors who knew they were dying, both profound in their exploration of human cruelty, both lifting the veil of propaganda and rhetoric to get to the Truth underneath. … more

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Quick Tip by Jvstin. February 19, 2011

posted in SF Signal

A Quick Tip by Jvstin

1984 is an essential book, not just for SF readers, not just for readers, but for everyone, everywhere.

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Quick Tip by Scotoma. February 23, 2011

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A Quick Tip by Scotoma

Pretty dry (dare I say boring) read in places, but the discussion about total context manipulation and its implications still remain pretty scary and relevant

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Quick Tip by jelundberg. February 23, 2011

A Quick Tip by jelundberg

One of the greatest books of all time, at the very top of my list of favorites.

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Quick Tip by Robin_Shantz. February 19, 2011

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A Quick Tip by Robin_Shantz

It's been years since I've read 1984, but it made a huge impression on me.

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Quick Tip by ifsomina. December 19, 2010

A Quick Tip by ifsomina

the formal political and the weird life style.I'm a chinese girl, and I have to say, some of the pictures seems incredible....fimiliar.

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Quick Tip by ssjakira1. October 06, 2010

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A Quick Tip by ssjakira1

One of those novels where you find yourself just fascinated.

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review by MemoryShock. July 06, 2010

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1984 - A Cautionary Tale

This was a well written book and one that receives not even a modicum of the attention it deserves. While the book begins by describing the social caste system and the dangers of becoming to personable within such, it is more of a descriptor of how technology and the application of social labels tends to be an implicit divisionary tactic between those within a social group. Winston's difficulty in negotiating his own personal feelings and the enforced loyalty to his … more

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Concerns life in an authoritarian regime as lived by Winston Smith, an intellectual worker at the Ministry of Truth, and his degradation when he runs afoul of the totalitarian government of Oceania, the state in which he lives in the year that he presumes is 1984

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