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- Demq, on 10/12/2007, -4/+32just an ebook on the web... what's so news about this. A nice one though
- mozzep, on 10/12/2007, -6/+31how are we heading towards To Kill a Mockingbird?
- BlackMagic2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26Thats what Big Brother wants you to think!
- fasda, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Wouldn't it be more enjoyable if you just got it from a library or bookstore?
- samadam, on 10/12/2007, -7/+26Well someone has read his mandatory high-school english books! Can I ask how this relates to Julius Caesar or Flowers for Algernon or Romeo and Juliet or Of Mice and Men or Lord of the Flies or Farenheit 451?
I am sure you can fit in a The Giver reference!
Jeez people, read some other quality literature outside of school. If you can find this many references in the four you read, try reading 20 others. - antifreeze11, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17its been online for ages. i personally dont like reading books online though. its just not the same.
- scabbers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16http://www.mininova.org/tor/194156
Audiobook - George Orwell - 1984
Just imagine it's a "podcast" or something. - jeffiek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16It's all there:
http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/ - orbit1979, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14"Read George Orwell's "1984" online in it's entirety"
.....and go blind staring at what is effectively a light bulb. - noamsml, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17We were, but the 2000's actually steered the US towards both a brave new world AND 1984. An interesting, and seemingly unlikely combination.
- mfratt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14I have the text in a doc so that I can give it to anyone who may need it. 1984 is probably one of the most important books people should read today, especially with the direction our governments are headed in.
Hell, Orwell was only 20 or 30 years off. Almost every one of the aspects of that book are in effect in society today (somewhat here in the US, apparently more in GB), albeit to a lesser (read: more silent) extent.
Another movie people should watch is V for Vendetta. I see that as much of a modernized version of 1984 that we can relate to.
Yes, the 1984 text is not "news" or "new", but it is very important, so keep on spreading it around. - karlthebug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Its funny that people think the shocking central theme in 1984 has to do with government surveillance. The real mechanism of control in the book is the manipulation and perversion of language, something that has been going on in the US for decades now. If you watch any major cable news network you can see this in action - buzzwords, soundbites, language designed to generate anger and fear.
If anyone thinks that 1984 never happened because there isn't an obvious "Big Brother", just read the book, then sit and watch 15 mins of Fox or CNN. I mean really watch and pay attention. Doublespeak is everywhere. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11one of the best books i've ever been forced to read!
- musicmantrs, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Actually its more London with the most cameras per person in the world.
- xtmno3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Yeah, you may be able to read 1984 online, but Big Brother will watch you when you do it!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10We are DEFINITELY heading towards to kill a mockingbird. Why, just yesterday I defended a negro in court and was paid in corn.
- prisoner24601, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"We're heading more towards Brave New World..."
Since it seems like there's a front page article on digg just about every day where people are complaining that "drug possession laws are too harsh" or "we ought to legalize marijuana" or something, I think you might well be onto something there. It seems a large portion of our society has indeed come to the "Who cares what's going on in the world? Just give me my soma dose" mindset. - grimjestor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10to all of you who think this is not the full version:
only the first chapter shows up when you follow the link. you have to go back to the index and all the chapters show up.
if someone has already posted this, go ahead and bury me... i'd be happier in the ground anyway. - anoneMoose, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Don't give Scientologists any more ideas. hehehe
- seventoes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Man digg... it seems like every time i start reading a book in English class, you guys find an eBook of it and post it on digg the next day. Anyways, this is a pretty good book, even if this isnt the full text.
- fasda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Orwell's Animal Farm is a nice read too.
- grimjestor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7just read the book. it's better than any movie could be anyway.
- sembetu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6While I've owned a couple of physical copies over the years, and I have one now... it is nice to be able to access great books like this online.
- JimXugle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7It's also illegal in the USA since 1984 is still protected by copyright.
However, I'm not the FBI nor the copyright owner.... so I don't really have an interest in what people download onto their own machines. - baalzebub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6for other great books in several file formats to choose from all for free...
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page - grimjestor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7digg this up.
why? because even if you don't like the book (which makes you some kind of idiot, i may add) this is basically an online library of classics, mostly essential literature that everyone ought to read.
you in america have local libraries, if you can pry yourselves away from the wii or whatever, but we in the rest of the world are not so lucky. so yeah. good stuff. - CarpeFishem, on 10/12/2007, -7/+13We're heading more towards Brave New World or Mockingbird rather than 1984.
- sembetu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Also check out titles from these and other great authors:
Aldous Huxley
Hermann Hesse
John Keats
Niccolo Machiavelli
William Wordsworth
Leo Tolstoy
Lord Alfred Tennyson
I was happy to see titles like Siddhartha, and Steppenwolf, and Brave New World, The Prince, Anna Karenina, and others. Very good stuff here. - spookyttws, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8@mozzep
His mom must've named him Scout. Either that or he's convicting an innocent black man. - DStuart, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10I may be missing a link, but it doesnt look like the full version...isn't it still under copyright????....and it should be buried merely for the stupid diescription. It was never a description of the future, but of the 'present' when it was written.....oh get educated people
- geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Slide into socialism? How about pushing through the "patriot act" then using provisions to further your political agenda. 1984 was based off the Spanish Civil War, specifically Franco's anti-democratic and rightist regime. Europe's "socialist" agenda is far different from the USSR's socialist idea. One limits freedoms, the other doesn't. I think that after we've seen the rightest regimes of Franco, Pinochet and the leftist regimes of N Korea and Russia, restricting freedom isn't dominated by one end of the political spectrum.
- MasterQ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@seventoes
It is full text... this is just a direct link to chapter 1. Here is the chapter listings http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/ - geekee, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11N. Korea, a socialist country, is by far the closest thing to 1984. They have speakers in every home broadcasting propaganda that cannot be turned off. They don't like citizens to have even bicycles because mobility of citizens makes the govt. nervous. This is what Orwell was afraid of. At it's inception, the US was probably the most free country to ever exist. However, the slide into socialism that has pervaded Europe and the US is slowly limiting freedom, for the common good.
- SuperMank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'd rather just borrow a copy from a library, I mean, then I can take it anywhere without worrying about battery/straining my eyes as much.
- j0siahAstacy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Fantastic!!! I just finished reading this book last week.
- afdager, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Thank you SOOO much
We're currently reading this book in school, with a test on Monday... and I forgot my book in my locker. How fortuitous for me that I just happened to find it while surfing digg! - edverb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Lots of diggers here are recommending 1984 and Brave New World, and debating which (if either) better describes elements of modern society. If you've read them both and want to explore this theme further, read "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman, I can't recommend it highly enough.
From the foreword:
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What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions". In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.
This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.
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link: http://www.serendipity.li/jsmill/post_1.html - mozzep, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6the governments in BNW and 1984 both had similar goals: limiting information, controlling the public, letting a few run the many, etc. They accomplished it different ways, 1984's way is always discussed. if anything the government in 1984 is less like ours than BNW, but we're still terribly far from either... the only example that sticks out in my brain between BNW and our society is the use of Xanax or other pills like that to make people happy. Also, people and children becoming more promiscuous. I'm sure I'd know more if I read the book again. It's been a few years with both.
- adalgiso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Ingsoc is short for English Socialism, the government of 1984, not English Society...
- paulcooper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4What kind of counrty doesn't have local libraries?
- charlie55, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4that would be a terrible thing if there were not thousands of other news sources and bloggers for us to choose from.
- Leomarth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5When you read it, read it slowly and try to extract the principle behind each action in the book. Once you start thinking of the principles behind actions, you'll begin to look at your life, and the actions around you, in a different way.
- InfamousX241, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Digg prevails! Excellent book, you'll be glad you read it.
- Clbck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4^^ Spoilers.
Also, there is not supposed to be an "And" right there. - noamsml, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wait, you mean that wasn't the newspaper?
- llamabox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The audio book is wonderful. I just finished it recently and i loved the person doing the reading. Really brought the book alive for me.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8Yes...PLEAE do, Diggers. That way,m when you all stupidly say "Big Brother" over something like cameras in a public place, you will finally realize how stupid you have been.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Bad link.
Here's the menu link: http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/ - spyd3rweb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Equillibrium is another good movie to watch.
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