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1984 by George Orwell

You know how “Pick Your Five” is popular on Facebook right now, and one of them is called something like “5 Things I hate that everyone else seems to like”?  Mine include things like running/jogging, dogs, yellow cars, etc.  The book 1984 might not be in my top five of such a category, but it’s definitely up there.  

I’ve tried and tried to read this book, and can’t get through it.  Some people have said things like, but what about the part with the rats?  To which I have to say, that I’ve never gotten that far.  I might like that part, but I just can’t get to it.

And it’s not for lack of trying.

But OMG, it just starts off too slow.  The whole thing about the paper moving a little tiny bit and all that bores the crap out of me.  

I like dystopia novels a lot, too.  But this one is just way overrated in my opinion.  It’s got great concepts, it’s just not well-written.

I’ve never seen any movie versions of it.  It might be a case where seeing a movie version would compel me to read the book.  I don’t know.

I mean, I know that this is an important book.  I do.  But that doesn’t make it enjoyable.  Not for me, at least.

If you like this book/author, you might like:

Farheit 451 (F) by Ray Bradbury
Brave New World (F) by Aldous Huxley
We (F) by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Kallocain (F) by Karin Boyle
The Handmaid’s Tale (F) by Margaret Atwood
Bad Monkeys (F) by Matt Ruff
A Clockwork Orange (F) by Anthony Burgess
Lord of the Flies (F) by William Golding
The Fountainhead (F) by Ayn Rand
The Stranger (F) by Albert Camus
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (F) by Ken Keasey
Finnegan’s Wake (F) by James Joyce
The Crucible (D) by Arthur Miller
Never Let Me Go (F) by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Fate of the Earth (F) by Jonathan Schell
Children of Men (F) by P.D. James
Men Like Gods (F) by H.G. Wells 
Catch-22 (F) by Joseph Heller 
The Trial (F) by Franz Kafka 

Other works by George Orwell:

Burmese Days (F)
Animal Farm (F)
A Clergyman’s Daughter (F)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (F)
Coming Up for Air (F)
Down and Out in Paris and London (CNF)
The Road to Wigan Pier (CNF)
Homage to Catalonia (CNF)

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