Haven't read 1984? - It's available online if you want to read it

[Aerows]

Now you can if you have an internet connection.

http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/0.html

It's worth a read if you haven't already.

[I Have A Dream]

1. Good to know. Thanks! nt

[Aerows]

2. It was a good find, IMHO

If somebody isn't able to get to the library, at least they can get it in a browser :)

[Newest Reality]

3. ++Good!

[Aerows]

4. LMAO

Double-plus good, indeed :D

[and-justice-for-all]

5. Give it a little more time and we will be living in it...nt

[Aerows]

6. That's why more people need to read it. n/t

[immoderate]

16. Orwell wrote that in 1948 because we already were living in it.

One of the illusions of the Inner Party is that you don't know it's happening.



--imm

[Aerows]

26. Never hurts to introduce people to the book

and to see what we are fighting against.

[immoderate]

29. Kidding? I taught this book as literature.

Teaching out of license, I needed a novel for a high school group. I picked the one that I had read the most times. Also the best written, or one of them.

It went well. I bet those students are occupying somewhere now.

--imm

[Juneboarder]

7. Awesome!

I have not read 1984 and have LOTS of free time on my hands at work. This version will allow me to read at work without the appearance of actually reading a book :)

Thank you :hi:

[Aerows]

10. Glad to help :)

That's just why I posted the link when I found it :D

[backtoblue]

8. great find!

A classic that everyone needs to read. ( and in my case re-read over and over... lol)

:hi:

[Aerows]

11. I'm just glad it is out there

A lot of people may not have time or the means to get to a library, but if you get here, you can get there to read it, if you want to do so.

[backtoblue]

17. so much of our modern language came

directly from this book and so many people have no idea where the terminology actually came from. "Big Brother" is even downplayed by having a stupid tv show by the same name.

[Puzzledtraveller]

9. INGSOC

Oligarchical collectivism, English Socialism (INGSOC)

[Aerows]

25. Knowledge is power :)

[Aerows]

12. Animal Farm is also available there

Along with a bunch of other Orwell works.

Enjoy!

Animal Farm:

http://www.george-orwell.org/Animal_Farm/index.html

[Cali_Democrat]

13. One of the greatest books of all time. n/t

[Aerows]

14. Required reading for these times, imho n/t

[dtexdem]

15. Double plus good.

And Big Brother can read over your shoulder. ;-)

[Aerows]

18. LOL

But at least you get the knowledge.

[backtoblue]

19. The Giver

is a great book for older children and teens in case you haven't read it. It's basically a softer version of a dystopian society. There is a YA book called "Matched" that, while not extremely well written is very thought-provoking.

[Aerows]

20. I haven't read that one, but I will look it up!

Thanks for the recommendation.

[dipsydoodle]

21. As far I'm aware

you'll also find the whole film in parts on Youtube.

[Aerows]

22. Nice!

It would be great to post links to it :)

I'm just trying to help out those who may not have immediate access to a library read a good work.

[dipsydoodle]

33. Links here

First of all this the whole of the BBC's one that they did back in 1954 in black and white :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hATC_2I1wZE

And here's the later one with Richard Burton and John Hurt in parts . That was released in the year 1984 .

1984 The Movie - part1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdyKJ1xXph8
1984 The Movie - part2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55d7gMLqxqc
1984 The Movie - part3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_omI0ZkdvY

etc etc - just keep changing the suffix number and stick with the same Youtube user ID landofheroes

I'm sure I've posted this lot in the video section before - long ways back ?

[C. lupus familiaris]

23. Great site!

I'm going to re-read 1984 and other Orwell, along with some related things.

First, though, I want to read We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, at least.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel).

(...)
"George Orwell averred that Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) must be partly derived from We.<10> However, in a 1962 letter to Christopher Collins, Huxley says that he wrote Brave New World as a reaction to H.G. Wells' utopias long before he had heard of We.<11> According to We translator Natasha Randall, Orwell believed that Huxley was lying.<12> Kurt Vonnegut said that in writing Player Piano (1952) he "cheerfully ripped off the plot of Brave New World, whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin's We."<13>
Ayn Rand's Anthem (1938) has several similarities to We, although it is stylistically and thematically different.<14>

George Orwell began Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) some eight months after he read We in a French translation and wrote a review of it.<15> Orwell is reported as "saying that he was taking it as the model for his next novel."<16> Brown writes that for Orwell and certain others, We "appears to have been the crucial literary experience."<17> Shane states that "Zamyatin's influence on Orwell is beyond dispute".<18> Russell, in an overview of the criticism of We, concludes that "1984 shares so many features with We that there can be no doubt about its general debt to it", however there is a minority of critics who view the similarities between We and 1984 as "entirely superficial". Further, Russell finds "that Orwell's novel is both bleaker and more topical than Zamyatin's, lacking entirely that ironic humour that pervades the Russian work."<11>
(...)

(I have not tried these)links from the wikipedia article:
Full text of We - http://mises.org/books/we_zamiatin.pdf
Audio recording - http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/download/default.asp?refnum=1000365

[Aerows]

24. Thanks for your additional links

I love sharing the library with the world - some just don't have the time or the means to make it there, but we can all help spread knowledge :D

[Aerows]

28. Oh, and glad it was useful to you

That was the entire reason I posted it.

[Aerows]

27. I'm trying to spread the link around

So that those who want to read it, can do so.

[backtoblue]

30. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. (Pizza is a vegetable)

[polly7]

31. Thank you :). I read it many years ago and have been meaning to

do it again. This is great.

[malthaussen]

32. Wasn't there an OWS poster or something...

... that read "1984 was not intended to be a how-to book?"

-- Mal

[FirstLight]

34. I just saw this post

thanks! I read the book in high school, one of those required reading books. and that was far too long ago for me to recall all the details...

good time for a re-read...

[FirstLight]

36. omg

just two pages in...and i feel like i am going to throw up.

so many things are just exactly like our world now, so many things i can forsee if the corporate agenda continues to take more and more power.

:scared:

[FirstLight]

38. *shudder*

"The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale -- then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'
And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. 'Reality control', they called it: in Newspeak, 'doublethink'. "


this makes me think of the textbooks being rewritten, and the way vietnam and even the gulf war are still being spun...
:hide:

[sarcasmo]

35. Picked a paperback copy up last year on Ebay for 5 dollars.

[blkmusclmachine]

37. Imagine it'll be shut down as soon as they pass the Internet Gag Law.