I don’t really know how to write this one as I am not really one of those who report on books.

Just wanna say to y’all who didn’t read the book you should really go get it. It tells the story of a very dark world, where each uniqueness of our world is exaggerated and shaded, where all is inspected, monitored and controlled by a central authority. a centralized world, where nothing is beautiful but one thing - the common truth. How does living in a world like this feels? How far fetched is this world from ours? What is the nature of truth, and freedom?

These are my thoughts. hope that’s working for you.

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    1 year ago

    Never heard of Orwell plagiarizing 1984… I’ll have to dig deeper thanks for the info! And 100% brave new world was such an amazing read… it was my first novel in like a decade after reading popular science books and it seriously got me thinking.

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      1 year ago

      Not sure if I’d call it plagiarizing, but he did heavily borrow from “We” by yevgeny zamyatin. Which he actually wrote a review of not long before starting with 1984. This Wikipedia section is an interesting read.

      Definitely worth reading both and compare what Orwell copied and which original ideas he added.