1984
George Orwell · 1949
The definitive dystopia. "Big Brother," "doublethink," "Room 101," "thoughtcrime": Orwell's vocabulary has become the vocabulary of political resistance. More taught and more read than any other speculative fiction in universities worldwide.
The case against
The allegory is a blunt instrument. Julia is barely a person, the love story is scaffolding, and the book stops dead so Goldstein's treatise can lecture you for thirty pages. You read it for the architecture of the nightmare, not for the novel around it.
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