I just loved that book.
Shame I found it so late (ofc I knew it had existed but I always considered it as boring set book).

The interesting aspect I found out recently is that Big Brother has materialised in Northern Korea

Most problems showed in that book (ministries of love, peace etc./ structure of classes) is very similar or even same!

What do you do think about that?

BB represents communinsm, so obviously NK will have stunning similarities.

Its an OK book, interesting, eye-opening, but not thrilling or captivating for me.

i really love that book, read it several times in english and german

I like how Orwell deals with totalitaristic societies, especially his view on what "Communism" had developed into...
Especially beacause I see him as a very left-winged person, but very critical on certain developments out of this streaming...
interesting to know that the police observed him several years because of the suspicion he was a radical communist ^^''

If you didn't already read it i can recommend orwell's book "Animal farm" which describes soviet totalitarism in the best way i ever read ^^

Dude thats an amazing book if you liked it then you should read:

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Giver - Lois Lowry
V - Thomas Pynchon

I've read all of those books and they're freaking excellent.

This post was edited by Conri on Sep 26 2007 09:00pm

read up Heart of Darkness too (Joseph Conrad)

Heh, im bout to read that book for my pre-ap English.

I found Heart of Darkness unreadable. YMMV.

yeah -- i didnt fully understand the giver though

What did you not understand?

nice book read it few weeks ago
now i need to do a refery in my english lesson on school bout it ^^