Nineteen Eighty-Four (Real Reads)

Everyone needs to read this book to see what is happening in the world today with Pollical Correctness and the Woke Culture. This book is a warning about what is happening now, and the consequences, if we ignore it. A must read for everyone who does not want to end up living in a Left Wing Totalitarian State.

It has been a while since I first read 1984. After I heard of speech laws coming into place I had to read this again. It would appear that governments are using it as an instruction manual instead of citizens using it as a warning/wake up call to watch for someone wanting absolute power. After 3 chapters you'd swear you were reading a diary

Read this and your see what's happening now,those that control how the past is learned,control the future.just keep changing it keep control of the people and their mind set.

There's so much great stuff in the book that I was disappointed that this was different. I think I should have got the novel just being read. It's my favourite book so to hear it changed is not great. The John Hurt film was better because that stuck to the original text and spirit of Orwell's work.

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right". - George Orwell, 1984I write this review as monuments are defaced, historical statues are toppled and streets are renamed in the UK and USA in the wake of a movement fuelled by outrage and captured by identitarian ideology with no apparent limiting principle. Statue toppling and removal of monuments at the behest of political activism may yet seem a distant world to that of Orwell's 1984. Nonetheless, the parallel signifies that a trip wire has been triggered and an alarm sounded. This is one of many such trip wire alarms that Orwell left for us to demonstrate that it is authoritarian ideology and the machinations of totalitarianism that drives such alarm triggering events. A rival identitarian ideology (or ideologies) with totalitarian goals will almost certainly emerge re-actively, and it too will trip these alarms.The novel demonstrates how authoritarianism seeks to control and eliminate independence of thought, in particular by controlling words and language. Much inspired by Churchill's morally courageous stand against totalitarianism - both fascism and communism - Orwell wrote this novel a few years after the end of WWII and in the emergence of the USSR as a tyrannical superpower. It is no coincidence that Orwell chose 'Winston' as the name for his protagonist. Earlier than most, Churchill became aware of the false dichotomy that was the choice between Communism and Fascism and pushed a movement for the 'middle way' of liberal democracy, ie a system based on reason and liberty of the individual, which fundamentally includes the liberty for the independence of thought of the individual. It seems a similar false dichotomy is to be presented presently. Read this book.

This story is still scary, and relevant, in 2018. It has very insightful things to say about the media, about the uses of repression and sexuality to control people, about technology and so-called progress, about hate as a political tool, and ultimately about love and humanity."1984" is one of those books that I've always meant to read, but I hadn't gotten past the excellent film starring the late, great John Hurt.Philip Glenister reading this (abridged) audiobook is quite an inspired casting (or am I just reading Gene Hunt into it?). I do still need to read the entire novel at some point, but I feel better prepared for it now. I am a natural coward, and I detest horror in any form.I've also bought "We", by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937) which inspired Orwell.

I had been meaning to read 1984 for a few years and finally bought it. it is an absolute must-read, especially with the way the world is going in 2021. very eye-opening considering it was written in the 1930s/40s

A great book giving an interesting perspective on the future as written 50 years ago. Worryingly accurate in some ways but thankfully not in lots of others.

Alles super, habe nichts zu beanstanden.

Le contrôle des masses par les média sociaux....La manipulation à grande échelle.Les dictatures en sont très heureuses.Les adultes devraient le lire ou le relire pour appréhender la direction que prend le monde...Ce n'est pas un livre réservé aux ados.

This at, the moment is my favorite book. I've never read a book that made me question reality, has this one has.

I have a visual impairment, I don't read many books as the print in most books is too small and I find reading them to be tedious. The only real book I've ever finished was "Flowers for Algernon" a book that I really enjoyed.I wish there were more audio books like this. Now a days it feels like audio books are everywhere, but it's usually just "Celebrity reads book."This CD of 1984 is a radio drama, it is fully voice acted by multiple people, there are plenty of sound effects and the whole thing is done amazingly.I absolutely loved this CD and I wish more like them existed.1984 is not simply a fiction book that seems so far from reality anymore, unfortunately it feels more and more like this could be reality if people don't stand up for their right to privacy and free speech.I highly recommend this book/audio CD to whoever is interested in it.

Tenía ganas de echarle mano al libro y me animé a leerlo en inglés (aprovechando que cursaba el curso de C1). Es cierto que en ocasiones se puede hacer un poco denso debido a la gran cantidad de adjetivos, pero la lectura se hace bastante amena (en mi opinión). No me resultó muy complicado de seguir, pero puede resultarte un poco frustrante si no dominas en un cierto grado el idioma, no lo recomendaría como lectura básica, sino intermedia-avanzada.Se trata una edición de tapa blanda pensada para estudiantes, ya que incluye un resumen de los principales personajes y de la trama en la parte posterior del libro, además de algunas preguntas sobre el mismo, la verdad que la edición está muy bien realizada, con un carácter académico. Por lo que si pretendes evaluarte o simplemente eres un apasionado de la lengua de Shakespeare, se trata de una lectura obligatoria.