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  1. Hurricane JD Hurricane

    Then you were too young.

    It is one of the better books ever written.
     
    Hurricane, Jan 19, 2015
    #1281

  2. Toolman TR Man

    Probs.. I was like 12 I think.
     
    Toolman, Jan 19, 2015
    #1282

  3. Alec AD Funkotron

    1984 is kinda boring. It's got an amazing backstory/world building, but the actual story is kinda shit IMO.
     
    Alec, Jan 19, 2015
    #1283

  4. hedger OX Gbagbo

    It wasn't written to be entertaining imo. It was written to make you think.
     
    hedger, Jan 19, 2015
    #1284

  5. Alec AD Funkotron

    Yeah, hence it's actually kinda boring. The best part is the back story of the bleak future it predicts.
     
    Alec, Jan 19, 2015
    #1285

  6. Toolman TR Man

    Yeah that was exactly what I thought.
     
    Toolman, Jan 19, 2015
    #1286

  7. hedger OX Gbagbo

    It being thought-provoking actually made it quite the opposite of boring to me, but each to their own.
     
    hedger, Jan 20, 2015
    #1287

  8. BoyBlunder BOY Blunder

    I enjoyed animal farm but gave up on 1984 half way through because i couldn't get into it and stared reading other things
     
    BoyBlunder, Jan 21, 2015
    #1288

  9. Furball G Furball

    Animal Farm's over-rated, it's just the Russian Revolution retold.

    1984 is a great book though.
     
    Furball, Jan 21, 2015
    #1289

  10. HeathDavisSpeed HT Davis

    I was reading an interview with Richard Adams on a newspaper website (Grauniad or Independant or summat). I thought it was very interesting that he didn't have any political thoughts in mind when he was writing Watership Down given how many parallels there are to despotic societies of the 20th Century.

    Shame really, as I think it's as good a political allegory as Animal Farm and also more subtle about it.
     
    HeathDavisSpeed, Jan 21, 2015
    #1290

  11. BigGuns DA Astele

    Giving the sequel to River God a look.
     
    BigGuns, Jan 21, 2015
    #1291

  12. Hurricane JD Hurricane

    1984 is brilliant but scary in that the author believed it would come to pass,
     
    Hurricane, Jan 21, 2015
    #1292

  13. SmellyStuff MP Chung

    Funnily enough I read 1984 when I was about 13 and loved it even then; even though I obviously didn't understand the deeper messages in it but I've read it again since then at least every 2-3 years and it just seems to get better on every read.
     
    SmellyStuff, Jan 21, 2015
    #1293

  14. hedger OX Gbagbo

    Maybe it will.
     
    hedger, Jan 21, 2015
    #1294

  15. Rego RS Hutchinson

    Hate them both but preferred 1984 - don't get me wrong they're good but not when you analyse the shit outta them in high school in yr 11 and 13 respectively.
     
    Rego, Jan 21, 2015
    #1295

  16. Hurricane JD Hurricane

    Hope not. I see signs it could with the amount of electronic surveillance. I don't like to carry on about it too much or I end up sounding like the tin foil hat brigade.
     
    Hurricane, Jan 22, 2015
    #1296

  17. hedger OX Gbagbo

    Yes, quite so. However, the technological surveillance capabilities of the every day devices people have in their poessesion in the present day far outstrip (in some ways anyway) those present in Orwell's fictional dystopia. Though they are more in the hands of the private sector than the state, I suppose.

    Still, deeply troubling.
     
    Last edited: Jan 22, 2015
    hedger, Jan 22, 2015
    #1297

  18. Julian BJ Taylor

    I've read all of his novels and his 3 main non fictions works (plus some essays) and I love most of it.

    While I acknowledge I'd never have read it if not for loving his big 2 books, I found Down and Out and The Road to Wigan Pier the most interesting. The re-relling of the class gaps from those eras was really interesting IMO.

    I'm on a bit of a binge of things written not far post Orwell atm.
     
    Julian, Jan 27, 2015
    #1298

  19. Harps ZAF MacDonald

    Reading The Stand by Stephen King. Such an epic.
     
    Harps, Jan 27, 2015
    #1299

  20. hedger OX Gbagbo

    Yeah, it's great, if a little contrived.
     
    hedger, Jan 27, 2015
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