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Originally Posted by Trollheart
I found it engaging at first then I got really bored with it. Probably didn't help that I had just wolfed my way through Nineteen Eighty-Four in three days. Again.
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Originally Posted by Frownland
Interesting, I found it engrossing. I had a little difficulty trudging through some of the denser sections of 1984 (the orthodoxy/unorthodoxy compare and contrast section that goes on for like fifteen pages was rough).
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I read
Brave New World in two days this summer. The dystopian world was chilling (in part because it was fairly accurate), but the characters and plot were weak. The symbolism in the final sentence is awesome though.
Nineteen Eighty-Four, on the other hand, is flawless... except for the section Frownland mentioned.
If we're talking about classic dystopian novels,
Fahrenheit 451 and
A Clockwork Orange are just as good as either one, if not better.