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1984 by George Orwell

209 reviews

emmoon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Death

Moderate: Violence and Alcoholism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

kittygracex07's review

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gaslighting, Torture, Violence, and Police brutality

Moderate: Alcoholism, Classism, Xenophobia, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and War

Minor: Death of parent, Misogyny, and Rape

leeyongjin's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Gaslighting

Moderate: Physical abuse, Eating disorder, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Classism, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Death and Body shaming

wvelociraptor's review

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Great book , but Julia's character was terrible

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Torture, and Gaslighting

Minor: Rape and War

reesecantsee3d's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Bone chilling. The last four words are like a gut punch. Not a lot happens plot-wise but that's okay because the world is just so intricately woven and expansive, and leaves very little untouched. Incredible read that will make you contemplate for hours. So many concepts are introduced that very well exist in the real world that one wouldn't think to notice or be able to put words to, and this book puts words to it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Torture, and Vomit

Minor: Rape

kianga_black's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Animal cruelty, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, War, Xenophobia, Sexual content, Violence, Alcoholism, Classism, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Police brutality

sp0okysandwich's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Classism, Alcohol, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Murder, War, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, Death, Cursing, Confinement, and Sexual content

w333d_w0rm's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

This book superseded my expectations

Spoiler

The ending was heartbreakingly realistic. This book should be a requirement for every person on earth to read. The way it tackles totalitarianism, the constructed language  in the book was incredible. especially when the appendix  goes to to much more detail on how oppressive the truth of newspeak really is. you do get the idea while reading the book but even more so at the end. I felt sorry for Julia, Winston even Parsons and Symes surprisingly. The journey through Winstons eyes was sometimes so violent or anxiety inducing or paranoid, i couldn't tear my eyes away from the page. Towards the end i felt like i lost my mimd with him. My heart broke at the realization of the decrepit broken old man he had become. The bleak acceptance that there may never be a change in the minds of individuals because BigBrother has realized every psychological advantage.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Xenophobia, Torture, War, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Body horror, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Suicidal thoughts, and Physical abuse

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, and Vomit

Spoiler

I think the world can benefit from reading this book and knowing Winston’s story. The amount of commonalities between the book and the world we already live in brings dread to my stomach. What makes me dread it even more is the final message in the book which is that an individual no matter what they believe has no choice but to go with the flow of the collective mind. Even if the collective is wrong, the individual alone can’t fight the current nor can they change the power in which controls the current of the collective minds. An individual WONT change the “party” aka gov’s kind if their (gov) only concern is gaining more and more power. Each day I pray that the small sect of people that want to uprise against their gov will find each other and with all their might (together) push against the wrongness that’s been perpetuated in the first place… I feel sorry that Winston quite literally got the fire put out from him. I think everyone can learn something vital from this novel

vikito_botz's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

A great book but clearly written by a man. 1984 had me feeling nauseous, anxious and spiral into philosophical discussions with myself. Not sure why exactly but it really got a visceral reaction out of me every time I picked it up. Mostly the ending had me in a choke and I needed to take a break between some chapters to continue forwards.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Physical abuse, and Death

Moderate: War

Minor: Rape

angeryuu's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Pensaba que viviendo en el siglo XXI nada me sorprendería de este libro, conforme lo leía pensaba: "ah, esto ya sucede", "a esto llegaremos dentro de poco", etc. Aún así, la tercera parte del libro me ha dejado tieso y roto y con  muy mal cuerpo. Jamás pensaba que un libro podría dejarme con tanto miedo y mal cuerpo, para mí es un libro político de terror.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Physical abuse, and Police brutality

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Suicide