'Splain to me 1984?

[Richard Hakluyt]

Any prole showing signs of independent thought was liquidated IIRC. So the method of control differed, a prole was fine as long as he went down the tracks laid for him by the Party.

[citizen k]

Anthem by Ayn Rand. Loads of good stuff.

Best Rand book, IMO (the shortest one, too)

I'm proud to say that's the only Rand book I've ever read. I was sixteen or so when I read it and quite liked it. Unlike "1984", it ends on a hopeful note. I've also read Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We", which is a pretty good dystopian novel as well. Fahrenheit 451 is good, too.

[Alexandru H.]

Any prole showing signs of independent thought was liquidated IIRC. So the method of control differed, a prole was fine as long as he went down the tracks laid for him by the Party.

Not necessarily. Proles could even say fuck off to Big Brother, nobody would take them seriously. Winston's words, not mine.

[Josephus]

Anthem by Ayn Rand. Loads of good stuff.

Best Rand book, IMO (the shortest one, too)

I'm proud to say that's the only Rand book I've ever read. I was sixteen or so when I read it and quite liked it. Unlike "1984", it ends on a hopeful note. I've also read Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We", which is a pretty good dystopian novel as well. Fahrenheit 451 is good, too.

Yeah read both of those as well, though outside of that course.

[Razgovory]

I've read it several times but it is intertwined in my mind with Brave New World.

My high school made us read that instead of 1984. 

One of the best courses I took at university was a course on Utiopian and Dystopian ficiton. While the Utopian stuff was crap we read some really good Dystopian ficiton including 1984, Brave New World, This Perfect Day by Ira Levin and Anthem by Ayn Rand. Loads of good stuff.

You should be thrown from a bridge.

[Josephus]

I've read it several times but it is intertwined in my mind with Brave New World.

My high school made us read that instead of 1984. 

One of the best courses I took at university was a course on Utiopian and Dystopian ficiton. While the Utopian stuff was crap we read some really good Dystopian ficiton including 1984, Brave New World, This Perfect Day by Ira Levin and Anthem by Ayn Rand. Loads of good stuff.

You should be thrown from a bridge.

Why? 

[Barrister]

I've read it several times but it is intertwined in my mind with Brave New World.

My high school made us read that instead of 1984. 

One of the best courses I took at university was a course on Utiopian and Dystopian ficiton. While the Utopian stuff was crap we read some really good Dystopian ficiton including 1984, Brave New World, This Perfect Day by Ira Levin and Anthem by Ayn Rand. Loads of good stuff.

You should be thrown from a bridge.

Why? 

Is Raz: a proponent of BASE jumping?

[dps]

I've read it several times but it is intertwined in my mind with Brave New World.

My high school made us read that instead of 1984. 

We had to read Animal Farm instead.

[Razgovory]

I've read it several times but it is intertwined in my mind with Brave New World.

My high school made us read that instead of 1984. 

We had to read Animal Farm instead.

We read both.  Though I had read 1984 before I was assigned to read it in world novels.

[Martinus]

What is it you teach, Grumbler?

Retarded Semantics 101?

[Martinus]

I've read it several times but it is intertwined in my mind with Brave New World.

My high school made us read that instead of 1984. 

We had to read Animal Farm instead.

Animal Farm isn't really about a totalitarian state, though. It's about a self-destructive mechanism of a revolution.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Now I have to re-read 1984. Looking for dogeared tattered copy at used bookstores later today, or tomorrow. I haven't read it since High school. I keep meaning to though. Now you guys have given me food for thought on it. thanks.

[grumbler]

What is it you teach, Grumbler?

Retarded Semantics 101?

No, I don't teach you and your buddies, you moron.  And the fact that your nation annihilated your "Semitics" does not make the rest of you "Semantics!"

[Razgovory]

Zing!

[The Brain]

grumbler teaches Special Ed. He makes it Special.