Nineteen Eighty-Four
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 eggnogg - at 10:10 am on Thursday June 12‚ 2003 |
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 Just started reading this book (I am well awair that I am an uncultured swine) and tis indeed a good book, abit slightly scary.
I shall bring further enlightenment later.
egg
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Bones - at 8:58 pm on Thursday June 12‚ 2003 |
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 there is a programme about george orwell on bbc2 very soon, not sure when
looks good
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Universal Sea - at 11:57 pm on Thursday June 12‚ 2003 |
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 great book. it's very far-reaching and there are things in there that will influence some of your later behaviour in life.
it had mild influence over some of my ideas.
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chique - at 12:00 pm on Saturday June 14‚ 2003 |
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 Then read Animal Farm (also by Orwell), then read We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, then read A Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. And don't come whining to me when you've found you've turned into a raving lunatic when you're all done. 
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eggnogg - at 10:35 pm on Saturday June 14‚ 2003 |
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I think it's actually made me more sane, if that was at all possible.
egg
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chique - at 1:12 pm on Tuesday June 17‚ 2003 |
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Didja like it?
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eggnogg - at 11:24 pm on Tuesday June 17‚ 2003 |
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Twas one of the best I've read (even if it didn't have any pictures). And the programme on tele about him recently was also very enlightening.
egg
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Universal Sea - at 12:05 am on Wednesday June 18‚ 2003 |
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there were pictures in my version.
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bosstard - at 12:34 am on Wednesday June 18‚ 2003 |
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 You sure that was't "The Beano Annual -1984"
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Jess - at 1:00 am on Thursday June 19‚ 2003 |
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I remember |
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 I liked it much better than Brave New World (which I never finished since I got bored) but I vaguely remember not liking the protaganist. I think he was kind of wimpy, wasn't he? Anyway, he could have been more likable and not so motivated by fear..
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Billy_Tascademo - at 8:25 pm on Tuesday October 21‚ 2003 |
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Posted by Jess:
I liked it much better than Brave New World (which I never finished since I got bored) but I vaguely remember not liking the protaganist. I think he was kind of wimpy, wasn't he? Anyway, he could have been more likable and not so motivated by fear..
Surely the whole point in 1984 is that Winston Smith is motivated by fear, and that he isn't likeable; that the constant whittling down of the dictionary reduces avenues for original thought, and that even somebody trying to make a stand, (albeit in a rather pathetic way) is beaten by the system? So as much as he wants to rebel, when it gets to the horrible rat sequence, he screams "Do it to Juila, not to me!"....cos it's...like a society run on fear and ignorance....and nobody is really likeable.
I don't know why, but I seem to gravitate towards novels with really unsympathetic characters.
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Jess - at 4:11 pm on Wednesday November 19‚ 2003 |
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Ah yeah that's it. The unsympathetic character. I think I do, too. Actually my problem is, I tend to dislike the ones I'm supposed to like and like the ones I'm supposed to hate.
Marketing doesn't work on me either. *shrug*
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jj_4487 - at 5:35 pm on Wednesday November 19‚ 2003 |
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 Cue Marcus Brutus, Hamlet and Romeo Montague.
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Billy_Tascademo - at 3:17 am on Thursday November 20‚ 2003 |
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Steerpike from Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy.
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Jess - at 6:16 am on Monday November 24‚ 2003 |
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Ah someone made a mini-series out of Gormenghast and it was on TV a few years ago. Looked REALLY interesting but I think it was back when I had no access to tv. Wonder if I could find it on video somewhere.
There's no way in hell I have time to actually read a trilogy right now..
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Billy_Tascademo - at 9:48 pm on Monday November 24‚ 2003 |
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It wasn't great. The first two books in the trilogy were my favorite books for years, so maybe it's an unfair thing to say. I thought Jonathan Rhys-Meyers was a bloody awful, hammy Steerpike. Christopher Lee was very funny as Flay, however.
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p-steer - at 2:07 pm on Tuesday December 9‚ 2003 |
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 lord of the flies has some supreme links to society and its behaviour
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