I'm back from the 2 minute hate - what happened, ya pukes????!!!!!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

So, obviously I started reading 1984 today. We read Animal Farm in High School so I missed this one. Figured I'd give it a go. Um - fucking scary folks!


Please, no spoilers!

[Nevernose]

1. Re-read Animal Farm

We read it in high school, and it was a criticism of Totalitarianism.

Then we read it in a Russian history course, and I was shocked at how much it parralleled the Russian Revolution. Every single tiny little event that is left out of most history books is recreated, by animals, in Animal Farm.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

2. That was the point, n'est-ce pas?

Mais oui!

[Nevernose]

8. Yes, but most people don't get that from a high-school read

Unless you went to very different high schools than I did...

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

10. I had a great teacher who really explained things in a way that got even

the most ignorant sweat sock monkey interested.

[Nevernose]

18. Lucky bastard. Lucky, lucky bastard. n/t

[liberalhistorian]

3. We read 1984 in my senior year of high school. I

remember how relieved we all were that nothing like that could or would ever happen in our own country. And now the parallels, especially the media nowadays, are downright frightening. Scary and depressing as hell.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

4. Thought police!!!! Enemy of the state here!!!!

Big John is watching

[RandomKoolzip]

5. YOU NEVER READ 1984?!?

Dude, I read that when I was in Mrs. Evenwel's class in 5th Grade (it wasn't assigned, I just wanted to read it.).

Better late than never......Enjoy the teachings of Emmanuel Goldstein!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

6. The ENEMY OF THE STATE? Never

:grr:


ps - kiss ass - you would read on your own. I always hated you! We read animal farm in Mr Reale's class. We DID read Brave New World - however - c'est magnifique!

[RandomKoolzip]

11. To put this in perspective: I read Stephen King's "The Stand"

that same year. As much as I loved "1984," I was OBSESSED with "The Stand." Ah, youthful pretention! And my father let me read his copy of "The Anarchist Cookbook" the year before. I was raised in a house that REALLY valued reading, especially dangerous political stuff.


Yes, I am a proud kiss ass.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

12. I remember you having the anarchist cookbook - you always had that off the

wall shit - you fuckin crazyman!

I loves you Porgy!

[RandomKoolzip]

13. And the capital of Nebraska is Lincoln!

Help computah.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

14. Fuck - now we're all dead!

Get the fuck outa here!

[RandomKoolzip]

15. Yo not cookeen!

Yeah dude.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

16. mmmommmoononommomonnnnommomonnom

[TroubleMan]

7. I was in Junior High in 1984, and they made us read it in English class

I would have read it anyway, and Animal Farm is one of my favorites.


"FOUR LEGS GOOD!!!......TWO LEGS BETTER!!!!!"

[Cleita]

9. I had to read both in high school! You had a choice?

eom

[No2W2004]

17. I got Animal Farm in Jr. High

complete with discussion groups after every chapter! Today I own the aniversery issue hard cover with illistrations by Gerald Scarfe!

I read 1984 on my own.


(For those who may not know Gerald Scarfe)