2006-09-22 00:46:59 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
People keep saying 1984--so scarry because it's all coming true. Big Brother is watching! Blah blah blah. I'm still waiting for my gin ration!!!!
2006-09-22 02:24:18 · answer #1 · answered by Alobar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I don't think it is the greatest book ever, but it's a really, REALLY good one!
Why? Well, I read the book as a young teenager in the mid 70's and it scared the living h*ll out of me.
Now, as an adult, with 1984 way behind us, I can see things happening to our government and society that are so similar it is really eerie. We are losing so any personal freedoms... video cameras are everywhere... spyware creeps into our computers without our knowledge... a plethora of things that are so much like the loss of freedom in '1984'. It took a bit longer for it to get really bad enough to notice, but still, the book seems almost like a prophecy!
2006-09-22 01:02:28 · answer #2 · answered by Zombie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a good book but I prefer down and out in London and Paris by Mr Orwell. It is somewhat superfluous to call a book the greatest ever as that negates any new reads that you may have. To enjoy a book and call it the best book I have read of late would be more fitting.
George Orwell was a great prophet and an amazing wordsmith. With our present govenment he was perhaps right it would be interesting to hear his comments on present day society. The way that govenments are bringing in new laws under the gise of prevention of terrioism is frankly unerving, we seem to be heading into an Orwillien vision. He predicted that as oil runs out govenment would want a tighter control on their population as unrest will ensue.
2006-09-22 01:02:24 · answer #3 · answered by andham2000 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it extremely is a great question. I actually have a sturdy theory of what the wonderful works are however the books that replaced my existence do no longer continuously agree. conflict and Peace is arguably the wonderful novel ever written. i found it rather obtainable, even though it extremely is a gargantuan e book. nevertheless it extremely is rather useful. yet I won't study it back for some destiny years. in all probability something by Dostoevsky is as complicated and spectacular as something you are able to study. i'm questioning incredibly of The Brothers Karamazov (I even have not study it yet). In English or eu lit I truthfully recommend 1984, and Madame Bovary by Flaubert. good older American Lit may be the Sound and the Fury (although i found it rather perplexing to conflict by two times!), For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway, seize 22 by Joseph Heller, and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. you are able to not beat something by Philip Roth for contemporary situations. he's our maximum spectacular tale-teller. See The Human Stain exceptionally. John Updike is impressive yet you study him for the brilliance of his shape extremely than his memories consistent with se; examine out the Witches of Eastwick, and Rabbit Run. Now books that have replaced MY existence are old Yeller, the gown, Airport, American Tabloid, long previous toddler long previous, Lonesome Dove, chilly Mountain, Carter Beats the devil, and finally something by Elmore Leonard. seek for a number of those books on Wikipedia. i think of that some, no longer all, will charm to you. i've got have been given to function one author purely simply by fact somebody else has already reported him. Charles Dickens is the grasp. you are able to desire to study each and every thing by Dickens. and study them again and again back!
2016-10-17 10:49:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't... It was okay but not great... I actually waited until January of 1984 to read the book...
Trivia.. Do you know where he got the title for the book??
It was 1948 when he thought about it so he transposed the last two digits of the current year and got 1984....
2006-09-22 00:53:06 · answer #5 · answered by Andy FF1,2,CrTr,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually, I don't think it's such a great book. But I can tell you I graduated out of high school in 1984.
2006-09-22 00:56:19 · answer #6 · answered by Mike M. 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do not think that. It is a good book but not the greatest... in my humble opinion.
2006-09-22 00:50:34 · answer #7 · answered by birgit_london 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's not even Orwell's best.
2006-09-22 18:25:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it is all coming true.
2006-09-22 00:55:16 · answer #9 · answered by stik 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not, but it is very significant.
2006-09-22 04:33:22 · answer #10 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋