1984

This book is far from perfect. Its characters lack depth, its rhetoric is sometimes didactic, its plot (well, half of it anyway) was lifted from Zumyatin’s We , and the lengthy Goldstein treatise shoved into the middle is a flaw which alters the structure of the novel like a scar disfigures a face. Bu Leggi tutto

WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. Those words keep sounding in my head since I read this book. Gosh, probably the most haunting not to mention frightening book I've ever read. 1984 should also be included in the horror genre. 1984 describes a Utopia. Not Thomas More's version of U Leggi tutto

In George Orwell's 1984, Winston Smith is an open source developer who writes his code offline because his ISP has installed packet sniffers that are regulated by the government under the Patriot Act. It's really for his own protection, though. From, like, terrorists and DVD pirates and stuff. Like

1984 is not a particularly good novel, but it is a very good essay. On the novel front, the characters are bland and you only care about them because of the awful things they live through. As a novel all the political exposition is heavyhanded, and the message completely overrides any sense of story Leggi tutto

I'm gonna ask myself a mandatory question and say nothing more. Why the fuck had I not read this book before?

It's written 1948? Clearly History has its twisted ways to repeat itself.. A Note that MUST be written in the cover of every edition.. لم اتوقع أن هذا التحذير "إن هذه الرواية تحذير وليست بدليل" بهذه الواقعية، مازالت الحكومات العربية تراقب الجميع لحماية أمن الحكام..بينما مازال أمن الأفراد هزيلا..منعدم Leggi tutto

حدثني عن القهرعن الاستعبادعن الذلثم حدثني بأدق التفاصيل ‏عن مراحل تقويض الكائن الانساني‏حدثني كثيرا وطويلا كي أعي هذا الدماركي أتشربهكي أدميه في لحمي وأعصابي نصلا حادا طويلاكي أنزف روحي بكاءكي أتعلم شيئا نافعا قبل أن أغادر هذا العالم البائسحدثني يا أورويل فما أشهى وجع حديثكوما أشهى ألم المعرفة الناز Leggi tutto

This was the book that started my love affair with the dystopian genre. And maybe indirectly influenced my decision to do a politics degree. I was only 12 years old when I first read it but I suddenly saw how politics could be taken and manipulated to tell one hell of a scary and convincing story. I Leggi tutto

هذه الرواية لا يجب أن تصنف أدبا ورواية وفنا وحسب .. كلا .. هي أكبر من ذلك, يجب أن تدرس كحالة مستعصية في علم الاجتماع وعلم السياسة .. ! عندما كتب جورج أورويل في الـ1949 كان متشائما لدرجة بعيدة لما سيؤول له العالم بعد 1984 نعم، ربما لم يتحقق ما قاله أورويل تماما، لكنه قد حصل بصورة موازية وشبيهة في كثير م Leggi tutto

I am a big fan of speculative fiction and in my literary travels I have encountered a myriad of dystopias, anti-utopias and places and societies that make one want to scream and..... ... (with or without contemporaneous loss of bladder and other bodily functions) .... Simply put, George Orwell'