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  • Benny1
    FFR Player
    • Sep 2003
    • 1147
    #1

    1984

    Yes, this is a book. Nobody said media didn't include books.

    Anyways, for lit I had to read this book.
    Words cannot express how much I love this book. It is incredible how everything works out.

    It is by George Orwell. It is a book about a political party that conntrols everything you think, see, say, taste, touch, and do. It is a world where even having the wrong facial expression will get you killed. There are telescreens watching you no matter where you are. Your coins watch you. Big Brother's face is everywhere, with Big Brother is Watching written under it. Then you meet Winston, who is not controlled by the party. This book is about him trying to figure out whether or not the party is for the good, and why he is not controlled. He meets many interesting characters as well, and some aren't what you expect.
    This is an incredibly scary book when you think about it like what if I was in Winston's shoes. I'll tell you this much, he is pretty much a dead man since page 6, and a lot fo this book is him just desperatly staying alive. I am almost sure you will be hooked on this book, for it is one of the best peices of literature I have ever read.

    [SPOILERS DO NOT READ IF YOU DO NOT WANT A WHOLE CRAPLOAD OF THE BOOK SPOILED]

























    So I got to part III today, and have not stopped reading it. I have actually been carrying it through the hallways at school reading it. I'm sure I almost fell down the stairs at one point from it, but i don't care. This is incredible. I'm trying to understand how it all works. I mean, the way Winston is explaining it right now, it seems like O'Brien says he can float like a soap bubble, if the party says so, and Winston will see it, if the party says so. So basically, wouldn't that mean their whole lives are mass hallucinations, or the like?
    Oh yeah, so in room 101, you go see what is behind that door in your nightmares, so how does the room work, I remember there was the cage, the bucket or something, and the mask, which had one wire coming out of it.

    I've been reading it really fast, I'll go back and reread all of part III later, but I really like this book, and you should all read it.










    [SPOILER END]
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    • Afrobean
      Admiral in the Red Army
      • Dec 2003
      • 13262
      #2
      RE: 1984

      I read it a while back for fun while I was grounded.

      Great book. Good twist there in the middle. Relatively unnexpected.

      It really does get into some psychological stuff by the end there.

      And the scary part of the book is: Our lives aren't as far from the book as one would think.

      Also, I think there was a movie made of it. Is this true? And is it worth seeing?

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        • Omeganitros
          auauauau
          • Jun 2003
          • 8897
          #3
          RE: 1984

          Our lives are FAR from that book. The awesome thing about 1984 is how the government is absolutely infallible (short of a catastrophe of miraculous proportions) from every point you could assault it from.

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            • suicidalmuskrat
              FFR Player
              • Oct 2003
              • 739
              #4
              RE: 1984

              I should reread it. I read it as a freshman in highschool. I enjoyed it, but I think I'd enjoy it much more now.
              I'll trade you this delicious doorstop for your crummy old danish.
              Done, and done.

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                • Kefit
                  FFR Player
                  • Apr 2003
                  • 1517
                  #5
                  It was a fun book when I read it four or five years ago.

                  However, just like Animal Farm, it completely fails to consider the possibility of a revolution by the masses, which is silly, as history has shown us that revolutions almost always follow oppressive reigns.


                  Originally posted by seinno
                  and also thank you everone for clearing it up for me I will try to start using my two hands iv tried quit a bit i put my left hand index and middle finger middle finger is on the up arrow index on on left arrow and right hand i use my index for the down button and middle for the right button does that seem weird?

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                    • Omeganitros
                      auauauau
                      • Jun 2003
                      • 8897
                      #6
                      Originally posted by Kefit
                      it completely fails to consider the possibility of a revolution by the masses, which is silly, as history has shown us that revolutions almost always follow oppressive reigns.
                      Excuse me, but WTF were you doing while your eyes followed the words of the book? Because you certainly couldn't have read it. A massive part of the book was explaining how the government could never be overthrown, because "revolutionaries" weren't even given an inch to go a mile with, the Thought Police were very good at picking off "rebellious" people or people at the lowest level of society that were too smart and could cause an uproar, and the simple fact that about 99.9999% of the population was completely fine with the concept of Double-Think, so whenever Big Brother did something that contradicted "himself," there was no contradiction at all. One absolute replaced a previous absolute, as if it had always been that way, so Big Brother could never be pointed out at fault. A revolution starts out small, sometimes with just one person. If that one person can't convince the people how evil Big Brother is, there's no revolution.

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                        • Benny1
                          FFR Player
                          • Sep 2003
                          • 1147
                          #7
                          The people loved the governemt, because they knew nothing bettter than it. Or thats how I felt about it, anyways.

                          Anyways, with the end, I kind of didn't like it, I mean, it just ended, nothing happened.
                          I mean, it would've sucked if a rebellion happened flawlessly, because that is just horrible.
                          But, just finishing it like this left way too many holes. LIke, okay, so the thought police let him go, so they let him live, I know that much. But he still thinks rebellious thoughts, and nothing really fully changed. He still could go back. I'm thinking if it wasn't for hte fact this book was released with the guy on his deathbed, I would be mad that there was no 1985 or whatever.

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                            • Omeganitros
                              auauauau
                              • Jun 2003
                              • 8897
                              #8
                              OMG WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU GUYZZZZZ


                              When they let him go, he did NOT think rebellious thoughts. Stupids! It all happened in the final phase of his Room 101 treatment. Even after all that torture and he told them every single thing he could, he still felt that he loved [that one chick forgot her name] and by loving her he still defied Big Brother. Then they broke his final strand of resistance by threatening him with Rats, which were his absolute worst fear. When they released him back to public, he was a broken man, and they successfully brainwashed him into loving Big Brother. He loved Big Brother so much, that after a few months he voluntarily went back to the Ministry and confessed to crimes that, while he didn't really do, he felt he must confess to them so he could be executed for hating Big Brother in the past.

                              NNEEEEEWWWWBIIIIIEEESSSSS

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                                • talisman
                                  Resident Penguin
                                  FFR Simfile Author
                                  • May 2003
                                  • 4598
                                  #9
                                  didn't dude bang a chick in the middle of a field in that book?

                                  but yeah, 1984 is very good. One of my favorites. And omega is right.

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                                    • blahblah18
                                      FFR Player
                                      • Aug 2004
                                      • 1662
                                      #10
                                      1984 one of my favs, omega is spot on, go watch the movie, and I've actually heard its a pretty solied movie (haven't seen it yet, coming up on my netflix queue)
                                      but for now... postCount++

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                                        • Hr2
                                          FFR Player
                                          • Mar 2005
                                          • 2350
                                          #11
                                          One of my friends quoted it and that made me say hmm, I better read this because I have been wanting to for a while. He said I'd probably find it dry and boring, quite the opposite I actually started laughing many times during the book. So opposite! Just hilarious in my opinion. The book is a masterpiece, I thought the ending made you think very hard about humanity. Even the strongest are very fragile, and sometimes the most fragile are the strongest of them all. A book revealing of character and of government. Yeah I finished it pretty quickly because I couldn't put it down. I was at a cottage and just read it outside in front of the lake, ahh good times.

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