Welcome to Litsy!

A pretty tough book, not exactly a light read. It's an interesting world but I wasn't exactly mind-blown by it. 😔
#classics #dystopia

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I am kinda undone with myself because I DNF'd 1984. I was doing the audio for a bookclub (pairing with Newman's Julia) and then when I was unable to make bookclub I realized there were other things I wanted to read more than 84 for the fourth or fifth time. But still it is lingering in my mind so i will likely pick the audio back up!

A reread, almost 30-years to the day that I last read it for A-Level English Literature. Wanted to reread before Sandra Newman‘s retelling, Julia. I loved it then and I loved it again now. Can I feel another Orwell deep dive coming on?

I've been #audiobaking and apparently my devices are listening too 🎧😑 #BigBrother

#bookhumor

Dystopian butter 😂🤣😂

"We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."
-George Orwell, "1984"
#GeorgeOrwell #1984

#CoverLove #White
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

"Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right."
-George Orwell, "1984"
#GeorgeOrwell #1984

"It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx. The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words, but it was not speech in the true sense; it was a noise uttered in unconsciousness, like the quacking of a duck."
-George Orwell, "1984"