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Gavajabra2
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I just got done reading this book, and it's probably the worst book I have ever read. They dragged it on way too much and when I read the ending I looked through the rest expecting something else. Anybody else read it?
May 14 2007 6:03PM
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golf
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I read it, I think alot alot of people read it thinking its going to be a book full of predictions for the future. when it actually just another boring book with lots of symbols and the predictions he made weren't very hard ones to make
May 14 2007 6:06PM
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Gavajabra2
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The end was totally philisophical, trying to day that if he thought o'Brien was floating and o'Brien thought he was floating, then he was floating. And that 2+2=5.
May 14 2007 6:10PM
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Gavajabra2
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K the only decent part is Winston has tons of sex with Julia, just drop the book at page 200.
May 14 2007 6:25PM
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zepscratch
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read it, was definitely dissapointed. however animal farm is one of my favorite books ever
May 14 2007 6:58PM
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skiierman
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Animal Farm was pretty funny. I liked the movie as well. The pig scared me though.
May 14 2007 7:00PM
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C.R.420
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Dude I am reading Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens for my English class at UC and it BLOWS. Such a boring read.
I like to read novels occasionally but this one is just ridiculous.
May 14 2007 7:02PM
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FUUUCK
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who has seen the wind was the worst book ive ever read
May 14 2007 7:42PM
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RudyGarmisch
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Dude, 1984 was sick. Great book, only surpassed by Vonnegut.
May 14 2007 7:50PM
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StealthSteez
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The searchbar has read 1984 about 4 or 5 times. Try there.



ban.
May 14 2007 7:54PM
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shagalabagala
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1984 sucks balllls
im supposed to be reading it right nw as a matter of fact!
May 14 2007 7:55PM
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waterville_NH
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are you guys fucking retarded? 1984 is one of the best books i have ever read. im acutally in the middle of writing a 12 page paper, most of which is on that book.
May 14 2007 8:27PM
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Gavajabra2
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What was good about that book? It had tons of potential but it just dropped the ball.
May 14 2007 8:28PM
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french_fry
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I didn't like the story either, but I am pretty sure I missed a lot of the literary genius Orwell used, and you most likely did too.
May 14 2007 8:30PM
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EastcoastAR5
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if you think 1984 "sucked", you are a fucking idiot.

try reading something other than dan brown books.
May 14 2007 8:37PM
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comeatmebro
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whats the 2+2=5 one???
May 14 2007 8:40PM
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Gavajabra2
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1984 was just babbling, on and on about all this philisophical shit while they explain how he was tortured into loving big brother.
May 14 2007 8:40PM
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Gavajabra2
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Just saying how the party could make them believe anything they wanted them to believe.
May 14 2007 8:42PM
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comeatmebro
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sounds stupid enough for me to not read it...
May 14 2007 8:43PM
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lushlaxstr
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i dont read
May 14 2007 8:44PM
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C.R.420
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The pig was representing Karl Marx.
May 14 2007 8:46PM
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-+Siver+-
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i liked the book 1984
May 14 2007 8:56PM
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fappy
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napoleon = stalin. not marx
May 14 2007 9:14PM
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The_Oakley_Kid
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that book is deep dude. deep.
May 14 2007 9:14PM
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ThaLetterM.
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"those who dont read are far less than those that dont." - Mark Twain

im just kidding i havent read a book since 1997
May 14 2007 9:15PM
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General_Shredgnar
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Im reading the book right now and Im enjoying it a lot. I think people either are totally engaged by it or blow it off, depending on how deeply you read it. Its amazing some of the predictions he makes into society that become true and the ideas he has about the world. Amazing book, cant wait to finish it.
May 14 2007 9:18PM
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C.R.420
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You are incorrect.

I was talking about Old Major - the pig. He was a metaphor for Karl Marx.

"Old Major is the first major character described by George Orwell in Animal Farm. This "purebred" of pigs is the kind, grandfatherly philosopher of change – an obvious metaphor for Karl Marx, though some elements of Old Major are directly from Vladimir Lenin." -wikipedia.com
May 14 2007 9:19PM
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MarkieR
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took the words right out of my mouth. 1984 is great. you kiddies are obviously just retarded.
May 14 2007 9:23PM
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lushlaxstr
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hahah
May 14 2007 10:11PM
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fappy
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well i'm pretty sure skiierman was talking about napoleon. why would he be scared of old major? he dies like the first or second chapter.
May 14 2007 10:23PM
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mtbakerteacher
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Technically you are reading right now...

On another note, with 1984 you have to understand the time period and the context. It was written during the red scare times, and was just an extreme prediction to help get people aware of complete totalitarianism, and was partly written to preserve capitalism. It is not a book intended to have a happy "hollywood" ending, which is what us, as Americans are programmed to enjoy.
May 14 2007 10:32PM
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waterville_NH
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yeah the animal farm argument is stupid...most people think of napoleon when they hear 'the pig' and napoleon represents stalin...old major represents marx/lenin
May 14 2007 10:40PM
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C.R.420
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Well, I thought of Old Major.
Both sides of the discussion are legit.
May 14 2007 10:49PM
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pommes_vertes.
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agreed. its because the fucking downies that say it sucked are either like the kid that said "i dont read" (which makes you soooo much cooler than the rest of us, by the way. enjoy delivering my pizzas for the rest of your life), or they are the type that read a book, and if it isnt exactly like the da vinci code, and has some substance and is worth thinking about rather than taking at face value, they immediately hate it.
May 15 2007 2:28PM
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