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I mean, it‘s kinda true. 🤷🏻♀️
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I mean, it‘s kinda true. 🤷🏻♀️
Weekly #Bookreport Loved HORRORSTÖR & Randomly read 1984 all the way through for the first time. Using it for #BBRC #unpopularopinion prompt because I was not crazy about it! The weekly #forecast is finishing up the Little Book of Hygge and starting The Color of Magic which I hope to use for the #neverendingseries prompt
@cinfhen @LibrarianRyan
pick1984 is a good book and a classic for a reason - it‘s packed full of interesting ideas. On the other hand, it‘s a bit frustrating. There‘s a textbook section in the middle that brings the whole thing to a crashing halt.
This was actually a reread (for my #modernlibrarytop100 challenge). I initially read it about 13 years ago, and as always with reading a book again, it was interesting to see which things stuck with me.
It's been such a long week and I'm pretty sure that I'm coming down with some sort of cold so I'm treating myself to a little pick-me-up of some filet mignon wrapped sushi & miso while reading 1984 on kindle app. This book is making me especially grateful for good food! This sure beats a lunch of pinkish stew and victory gin! 🥢🍣😍
pickI have said it before, and I'll say it again. George Orwell is a genius. This book was written decades before it's time. What a fantastic story.
Damn, Winston! You didn‘t have to actually tell her everything! 😱😰 #tmi
I know I'm very late to this party. I'm not sure why I've never read this book. I'm quite a few pages in, and so far it is fascinating.
Still relevant
#cautionarytale
#namastenovember
"Until they become conscious
they will never rebel,
and until after they have rebelled
they cannot become conscious."
This book still send chills down my spine when I think about it.
It is easy to see parallels between the world of 1984 and the world we see around us but ultimately I don't think the world of 1984 would be sustainable. Be that as it may, deservedly a classic.
#bedsidetablebooks this morning
Hopefully I‘ll finish 1984 today and get started on The Moor‘s Account. The Light Fantastic is done but just hasn‘t made its way back to the bookshelf yet.
Arrived at the pool early so I took the opportunity to finally get through the textbook section of 1984. Yikes.
#modernlibrarytop100
#weekendreads
1️⃣ 1984 is a reread and also my next #modernlibrarytop100 book. Also finishing up The Light Fantastic.
2️⃣ Only one at the moment.
3️⃣ I‘m not sure I‘ve ever had a reading slump. If I‘m not in the mood to read I don‘t force myself. Not very helpful, I‘m afraid!
إن الولاء يعني انعدام التفكير ، بل يعني انعدام الحاجة إلى التفكير أيضا الولاء هو عدم الوعي
panUnpopular opinion 😬 Don't take away my book lover cool kid card!
#pop19 #popsugar2019 #popsugarreadingchallenge
A book that inspired a common phrase or idiom
He knew that in the cubicle next to him the little woman with sandy hair toiled day in, day out, simply at tracking down and deleting from the press the names of people who had been vaporized and were therefore considered never to have existed. There was a certain #fitness in this, since her own husband had been vaporized a couple of years earlier.
#QuotsySep19
#BannedBook
pickThe older I get the more respect I have for this book. I dont think i was old enough to appreciate it when i read it in HS. As an adult however i am able to appreciate the nuance of this book and the sutle things that happen that make this book so realistic and scary. Like O'Brien and his role in the party.
An important read for our time.
The book 1984 by George Orwell was written in 1948. See what he did there!?!
So i started reading this book and had a brief moment of panic right around the time winston starts to question the realty of what the world was like before the party took power. Because my brain was like: Did i really read this in HS or do i just think i read it because everyone read it in HS?!! How come i dont remember anything about this book... And then i remember human memory is totally fallible and that might be a useful tatic.
#7days7covers #CoverCrush
Day 2.
1984 is one of my all time favourites.
Seven covers for seven days. Tag whomever you please.
#7Days7Covers #CoverCrush Day 4
@Hooked_on_books
7 days, 7 covers you love, no explanation. Try to tag someone new each day.
Anyone else interested, consider yourself tagged as well! @RaimeyGallant
pickDefinitely an apt read for the present times, though don‘t hope for answers to questions it leads you to ask. The despair I felt when I finished the book was like biting into a grapefruit - though you expect the sourness, it still hits surprisingly hard, and it‘s so deliciously sweet.
pickSpectacular. The way Orwell gives us futuristic view on totalitarianism is marvelous. A must read for all politically motivated people.
This isn't really related to this book at all but more my experience of reading in general maybe. After I finish this book... hopefully by the end of the week...this will be my 8th book read this year. I know to some that is hardly anything but to me it's an accomplishment. It's one book per month when last year and the beginning of this year I was struggling to be able to even concentrate long enough to read a page. Yay for small accomplishments
pick“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows”.
Such a brilliant read. I was put off reading this after being forced to read ‘Animal Farm‘ in high school (I‘ve always resented being forced to read books not of my own choosing). Needless to say I‘m happy to have picked this up and forged ahead anyway. It is incredibly powerful, frighteningly insightful and so very relevant to our world today 👁
“If human equality is to be forever averted—if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently—then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.”
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake.”
“Power is not a means; it is an end. ....The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”
pickI have forgotten a lot of this book over the years. I remembered big brother, being spied on, and vaguely the fact that Winston is tortured. This book is scary! I understand now why everyone has been referencing it in today‘s political climate.
“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.”
1984 takes longer than I thought to read, but I‘ll finish up this morning. Between audiobook (I‘ll be there for you) and physical book, I read 4 hours yesterday. Not sure I like timing my reading.
#24b4monday #summersendreadathon @Clwojick
@ReadingMermaid @Andrew65
pickHello guys. I am still relatively new to the habit of reading but picked up this classic book. 😊 Now with more relevant than ever with authoritarian regimes like China and Russia. If you have any books that you would like to recommend, please do so!! Thank you!
So I know that I have read this book before. I remember reading it. I remember parts of the book. I thought when I started it "it's been a while since I read a classic and I remember liking this one...".
It is not the time for this book. I thought it was and it is not. Kinda makes me sad that it's not holding my attention the way I felt it should. So I'm going to out it aside for now and look for something else.
Finally lunchtime on this busy Monday in worklandia. Already starting my afternoon caffeine drink
I‘ve only read 2 books on this list. How many have you read?
𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞‘𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭:
📚The Giver
📚Brave New World
📚Feed
📚Animal Farm
📚Legend
📚The Maze Runner
📚Shatter Me
📚Fahrenheit 451
📚The Handmaid‘s Tale
I‘ve read the first book in the Hunger Games Trilogy but I need to finish the second and third books in order to complete the series.
pickBook #57: Out of the four 100 Greatest Books lists, there are only a few books that appear on more than two lists. 1984 is one out of the few on multiple lists and I can understand why. 1984 is a very powerful novel dealing with possible totalitarian future society and how one might survive in such a society. The only problem I really had with this book...
http://dinojim.blogspot.com/2007/03/the-306-greatest-books-57-1984.html
#100greatestbooks
Finally home after working overtime and getting my husband from work time for some me time with my fur babies
so-so
