Nineteen Eighty-four - George Orwell Reviews

This book is the last of Orwell's collection, and was published in June 1949, just before Orwell's death in January 1950; it is my favourite book of all time. The book is brilliantly written, and in my opinion is a seminal piece of work, that is not only entertaining, but prophetical at the same time. It is set in a ...  Read the complete review

This book is from one of the best visionary writers of the past century. Perhaps spelling out his own fear for the future of Earth, split into three super continents constantly at war, perhaps just a true work of fiction, this man is a literary genius. Following Winston throughout the majority of the text, you soon begin to see the man ...  Read the complete review

I first read Nineteen Eighty Four 17 years ago, and even after multiple readings it's power hasn't diminished. First published in 1949, George Orwell tells the story of Winston Smith, an everyman living in a dystopian Britain in the year 1984, and his attempts to rebel against a totalitarian government headed by the all-seeing ...  Read the complete review

Welcome to 1984 as George Orwell predicted it to be, where Britain is a vast dictatorship where thought police monitor your every move, watch your every facial expression and check your every word. Say the wrong thing? 25 years in a forced labour camp, that's if you don't get sentenced to room 101 and the death penalty. Pull the wrong ...  Read the complete review

Nineteen Eighty-Four is without a doubt one of the most influential and scarily prescient books of the 20th century - George Orwell's opus observe a dystopic surveillance state that very much serves as a disturbing warning regarding the nature of government-sponsored surveillance. The story unfolds largely in London - a desolate, ...  Read the complete review

How often have we heard the phrase Big Brother is watching you and not really given much though to where the phrase came from. For my generation who grew up in the computer age certainly, but not in the internet age. we didn't really see a society where cameras watched your every move, where you would freely, of your own volition, carry a tracking ...  Read the complete review

It is somewhat depressing now that when you mention the phrase 'Big Brother is watching you' so many people seem to assume that it is attributed to the television programme, and not to one of Orwell's finest works, 1984. His depiction of a dystopian world, but serves to horrify as well as to warn us of the dangerous of an over powerful state. It ...  Read the complete review

Being a lover of dystopian fiction, I've had this book for a while now. Although I've only read it once I've dipped back in many times to read certain chapters and passages. To briefly summarise the plot without giving too much away, the novel is set in a segregated society gripped by war and riddled with censorship in an imaginary ...  Read the complete review

Nineteen Eighty-four is an enlightening novel with a fascinating plot. I particularly enjoy the fact that the world that Orwell creates is so similar to ours allowing the reader to identify with it, yet with some freshly interesting modifications. The book genre is hard to limit; although it is largely about a strange world, there is also a ...  Read the complete review

If imitation amounts to flattery, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four has, it is reasonable to say, been flattered rather a lot. Apart from all manner of derivative dystopian fiction, the author's classic has of course provided the inspiration for one of the most enduring, if not endearing, televisual hits of the last decade in Big Brother. What ...  Read the complete review

George Orwell, like many social idealists of the mid-20th century, was horrified by the political excesses of Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union. 1984 was Orwell's often macabre fictional interpretation of the 'perfect society' turned into a living nightmare. Seventeen years after the novel's famed date and eight years after the fall of the Soviet ...  Read the complete review

1984 ==== This is the book that gave us, Big Brother is watching and Room 101. We follow Winston Smith who whilst living in this futuristic society, (when it was written) longs for something more and begins to wonder if it's all true. Is there really a war going on, is he really always under scrutiny, why can he ...  Read the complete review

Nineteen Eighty Four, the book that established George Orwell a literary colossus, confronts the reader with a brilliantly realised vision of a dystopian future wherein the Government is all powerful and the slightest hint of dissention will spell certain death. The story takes place primarily in London (or, as it is known in the ...  Read the complete review

Sometimes you have to remind yourself that this book was written in 1949. It is so brutal, bleak and uncompromising that you think it had to have come from a more modern time. I am not sure if it was the post war bleakness that brought it about or not, but it is one powerful book. I am sure George Orwell would be turning in his grave right now ...  Read the complete review

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a fascinating read, I did it for my English Literature GCSE, and I must admit, I quite enjoyed it, despite my usual "I don't read books" mentality. Nineteen Eighty-Four is basically a warning of what the world could become in 1984 (it was written in the '50s) if nothing was done to change what was going on at ...  Read the complete review

1984 Ignorance is Strength. Author - George Orwell. The World is divided into 3 great powers, Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia. All of them constantly at war with each other. Oceania is ruled by the "Party" which itself is divided into 4 controlling ministries. The Ministry of Peace. The ...  Read the complete review

This was (and still is) one of my most favourite novels I have ever read, and I've read it a few times. Normally I would never read a novel more than once but the dystopian world which George Orwell portrays is magnificent. I first read this novel a couple of years ago when I was studying English Literature and it was the only novel ...  Read the complete review

The time when Orwell was writing this book was only a few years after the end of World War Two, in 1949. Around this period there were huge differences in political views around the world. There was the American approach of democracy, where everyone had the right to vote for a leader; and the communist approach of Stalin's Russia where everyone ...  Read the complete review

I'll assume most people will have heard of Orwell's 1984 - even if you have only the vaguest idea what it's about, certain phrases such as Big Brother and Room 101 have become parts of our popular culture (generally for the worse of TV). The fact that the book itself may be described as literature, however, means I reckon far fewer have actually ...  Read the complete review

I first came across 'Nineteen Eighty Four' by George Orwell when i was recomended it by a friend. A whole year past, untill i finaly decided it was a bout time i read it. I was brimming with excitement all the way home once i'd purchased it, and started reading it straight away....i wasn't disapointed! 'Nineteen Eighty Four' is a ...  Read the complete review