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I'll be reading this, when it arrives. It better be good.

...... It's a classic for a reason, you know

Thanks for the recs, team!

And 1984 is a great book. One of the most eye-opening and depressing novels I've ever read.

Unfortunately, that isn't always the case. So many 'classic' things have been huge let downs. Though I don't think I've ever read a book that could be deemed a classic. Except maybe Catcher In The Rye.

Yeah, I've heard it's pretty bleak. I'm planning on listening to some dark evocative ambient while reading. Maybe Music Has A Right To Its Children or Untrue or F♯ A♯ ∞, something along them lines.

He's got a point. I hated Brave New World, for instance. Awful novel.

I've read 1984 a few times... it's very important, very well told, and should be read by all.

I got to read it in high school the first time. Y'all didn't read 1984 in school?

I didn't have a teacher who hated humanity until 11th grade, and then all we did was dystopian work. :laughing:

Even then, we did Lord of the Flies, Fahrenheit 451, Hamlet, Heart of Darkness, and Oryx and Crake, but not 1984.

I wonder if in the next 10 to 20 years kids will be reading Cormac McCarthy's The Road in their English class. Better yet, if they do I wonder how that will affect teen suicide rates.

When's the last time a book read in high school affected suicide rates?

I was being facetious given the general bleakness of the novel.