Nineteen Eighty-four - George Orwell Reviews

Edgar Cayce was a great 'prophet'; he made of 15,000 predictions about the future which he claimed to have got from a 'higher' universal source of knowledge whilst in a 'trance like' state. He was great, no doubt, and many of his prediction DID come true. He did not, however, predict the rise of the Democratic Peoples Republic of ..., ...  Read the complete review

Big Brother is watching you, George Orwell's amazing futuristic view of the world eerily close to reality, you walk a fine line between acceptance to outrage of this world, I've read it pre 9/11/2001 and post somehow post 9/11 it seems an even finer book.

George Orwell's 1984 is, at best, a mediocre read. While many trumpet it as the definitive dystopian novel it is in fact a rather soulless copy of "We" the 1921 classic by Yevgeny Zamyatin. That Orwell wrote his work after reading the Russian's effort is uncontroversial; so too is the fact that Orwell used "We" as the ...  Read the complete review

I could rehash the usual shpeel about Orwell's 1984: it paints a grim perspective of the future, it is chilling in its foresight, we should watch for propaganda, etc, etc. However, I think that this would be a great disservice to a great novel. After all, there are others who wrote about dystopias before Orwell, and many have written ...  Read the complete review

Winston Smith lives in a world filled with media lies, wicked propaganda and omnipresent CCTV. How could Orwell have known that this nightmare vision would come true? In this dystopian vision of a nightmare future, written in the 1949, there are many parallels to modern life. Many opinions are illegal today despite the notion ...  Read the complete review

I can guarantee that after reading this book you will have a found a new favourite for your bookshelf. My own copy is rather worn as it is the kind of book you get more out of after a second reading. Winston Smith, a worker in the totalitarian future Orwell has created, begins to question the world that has aged and numbed him, and ...  Read the complete review

Orwell wrote this book in 1948, an imagining of the dystopian nightmare that was 1984. As a lifelong socialist, Orwell was extremely concerned with the way that society was headed and it was in this novel that he explored his ideas. As in the satirical Animal Farm, 1984 takes a sidelong glance at the politics of the country. While Animal ...  Read the complete review

A chilling book, by one of my favouirte authors, George Orwell. I use the word chilling in hindsight. I really enjoyed reading this book- once I started to read it, I could barely put it down. The themes and the way that it is written made drew me in, making me feel like I was part of this Uptopian society. When ...  Read the complete review

This novel introduced new words into our vocabulary, most notably "Big Brother", but double speak, newspeak, though police as well. The book crystallizes the ideas of population control through thought control which is done through information control. In this world, history, culture, prejudices are written and ...  Read the complete review

This is one book that everyone should read though schools seem to concentrate on Animal Farm, 84 is far superior. It really strikes a chord because it is so real and remarkably prescient. The misinformation or 'double speak' which the protagonist encounters is how I would imagine living in North Korea would be like. The constant ...  Read the complete review

This book is perhaps the most moving and thought provoking book I have ever read. George Orwells style of writing enables you to identify with the characters and question modern ideals and societal mannerisms. The dystopian novel follows Winston Smith, one of many people subdued into a society of fear and propaganda. The ...  Read the complete review

I've never read a book that captures the atmosphere of dictatorship in the way that 1984 does. Its a book I've read over and over again and I can't recommend it enough. I'm originally from Iraq and I visited the country several times in 1989 and 1990. I was only 10 at the time but it really affected me - the worst thing was ...  Read the complete review

A lot of people have read this book as part of their English literature studies at school. I didn't get that chance, so made sure I included this in my recent drive to read all the great novels. I'm glad I did! I was expecting a dry and difficult book, but as I've found in so many of the great novels- they're still read for a reason, as ...  Read the complete review

Having always been intrested by the status of 1984 , I thought maybe its about time I read it , and found out what all the fuss was about. Well its all based around a man called Wilson , living in the dystopian state of Oceania , made up of Britain , USA , Australasia. He works , like many people , for the party. A government ...  Read the complete review

I was first introduced to this book through the many articles i had read which used the term orwelian to describe the happenings. I was intrigued by this word and still had no idea of what it meant, until that it is I stumbled across this deceased author. Orwelian of course, is a term synonymous with this book Nineteen Eighty ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review