Review of Nineteen Eighty-Four from 1949
Fascinating review of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four from the year 1949. Seems this particular reader had a similar experience with it that I had.
Nineteen Eighty-Four is a book that goes through the reader like an east wind, cracking the skin, opening the sores; hope has died in Mr Orwell’s wintry mind, and only pain is known. I do not think I have ever read a novel more frightening and depressing; and yet, such are the originality, the suspense, the speed of writing and withering indignation that it is impossible to put the book down.
via Boing Boing.
2 thoughts on “Review of Nineteen Eighty-Four from 1949”
Clearly, they had no idea what the future held for them. 🙂
We’re heading that way…
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