1984 [Kindle Edition]

Product Description
In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions.

Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.

Customer Reviews
perfect for the times By thomas
Kind of like how you feel in an airport these days. This is the Tsa and homeland security rolled into one nasty picture.

One of the first and best Dystopian futuristic fantasies By Daniel J. Henk (Philadelphia, PA)
Engrossing and well written, this dark novel about a futuristic fascist government, where individual freedom is a negative concept, has been endlessly copied, the concepts repeatedly utilized. But rarely have the successors been nearly as well told. Written in 1948, but still timeless and a great read. There is a reason this is a modern classic, while still a favorite among everything from the sci-fi crowd to the acolytes of horror, thrillers, and anyone into an intense vision of the future. One that is proving all too real.

Great book By Yimeng Zhang
The book is very well written. Although there're some wrong concatenation of words in the book, it doesn't matter much.

Dystopian Masterpiece By Mark Cohen (Atlanta, Georgia)
If you haven't read this book you should, if you have, you should read it again. There is prescience in this book and in many ways it is as poignant today as it was when first published. Orwell writes with nourishing intensity rarely ever seen in other writers and his sentences are like prose pregnant with meaning and depth.

Required Reading By ASiccan (Los Angeles)
This book used to be required reading. It's the scariest book I ever read and it's becoming scarier as time goes on. Orwell was a true prophet of where we are headed; his timing was just off. While the book has London as its setting, the story could take place anywhere in the world. Despite the American Founders' best plans, America is heading in the direction of Orwell's 1984 world, tiny tiny bit at a time.

The book is well written and reads fast. If you love America, you owe it to yourself to read this book. If you haven't read it and don't intend to, you are probably sticking your head in the sand, hoping things will be OK anyway.

Awesome By Mary
This book was AWESOME. I had to read it over the summer for class, and I was totally bummed out because I had already spent half the summer reading other really old, lousy books for the same class, but I really liked this one! It went fast, which I liked, even though it was on the long side, and it was just really cool. The storyline was different, and though I was sort of expecting some of the events, they were still surprising and realistic. The end was also really interesting, and I wasn't expecting it to end how it did. Read it, it's a classic, and it's really good!

A Timeless Cautionary Tale By Jeff Williams (Boston, USA)
Volumes have been written about this book, so it's hard to add something new to everything that has been said about it. So I'd like to emphasize one aspect of 1984 that in my opinion is often overlooked when people discuss this masterpiece. Quite often, this book is criticized for things like simplicity of its plot or flat dialog. Whether you agree or disagree with this kind of criticism (I personally disagree) I think reviews like this totally miss the point. Yes, there are books with more compelling characters, with much more sophisticated plots and with more complex relationships. But this is not the reason 1984 stays popular. What make this novel special is its masterful portrayal of totalitarianism.