1984 is kinda boring. It's got an amazing backstory/world building, but the actual story is kinda shit IMO.
Yeah, hence it's actually kinda boring. The best part is the back story of the bleak future it predicts.
It being thought-provoking actually made it quite the opposite of boring to me, but each to their own.
I enjoyed animal farm but gave up on 1984 half way through because i couldn't get into it and stared reading other things
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.