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Anyone read this book?
I remember reading it at school but didn't take much notice
I have just finished reading it again at the age of 59
Wow!! She wrote this book in 1949 about a future dystopian world beginning in 1984
So many predictions have come to reality
CCTV listening devices, tablets and computers, the national lottery etc etc
Amazing read highly recommended |
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I’ve never read the book but remember watching the film adaptation starring the late and very sadly missed, John Hurt when I was younger.
…..it was mightily bleak viewing and that scene with the rats……  |
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I’ve always been fascinated by it … but have been with much of Orwell’s stuff, like Animal Farm.
Equally applicable to many recent events such as lockdown/austerity etc - everybody’s equal but some are more equal than others |
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"Anyone read this book?
I remember reading it at school but didn't take much notice
I have just finished reading it again at the age of 59
Wow!! She wrote this book in 1949 about a future dystopian world beginning in 1984
So many predictions have come to reality
CCTV listening devices, tablets and computers, the national lottery etc etc
Amazing read highly recommended "
think i read it in 1984 |
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"Anyone read this book?
I remember reading it at school but didn't take much notice
I have just finished reading it again at the age of 59
Wow!! She wrote this book in 1949 about a future dystopian world beginning in 1984
So many predictions have come to reality
CCTV listening devices, tablets and computers, the national lottery etc etc
Amazing read highly recommended "
He not She. |
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It was one of those big important books when I was a kid.
It had two moments in the text that just blew my mind in a way that only techniques within prose really could. Still go back to read it decades later.
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"Anyone read this book?
I remember reading it at school but didn't take much notice
I have just finished reading it again at the age of 59
Wow!! She wrote this book in 1949 about a future dystopian world beginning in 1984
So many predictions have come to reality
CCTV listening devices, tablets and computers, the national lottery etc etc
Amazing read highly recommended
He not She."
George Orwell was a female
Back in 1949 society wouldn't accept a female author as much as they would a make. She adopted the name George in order to seem male |
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"I’ve always been fascinated by it … but have been with much of Orwell’s stuff, like Animal Farm.
Equally applicable to many recent events such as lockdown/austerity etc - everybody’s equal but some are more equal than others"
I agree Animal farm is also a true adaptation of the world we live in |
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He not She.
Maybe George self-identified as female 
She was a cis female
I thought George orwell was the pen name of a guy called Eric Blair "
He may have been confusing him with George Eliot. |
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He not She.
Maybe George self-identified as female
She was a cis female
I thought George orwell was the pen name of a guy called Eric Blair "
You're correct! Just looked it up, I have always thought he was a she. Must have got muddled up with another author
My bad |
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"Anyone read this book?
I remember reading it at school but didn't take much notice
I have just finished reading it again at the age of 59
Wow!! She wrote this book in 1949 about a future dystopian world beginning in 1984
So many predictions have come to reality
CCTV listening devices, tablets and computers, the national lottery etc etc
Amazing read highly recommended
He not She.
George Orwell was a female
Back in 1949 society wouldn't accept a female author as much as they would a make. She adopted the name George in order to seem male "
George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair - very much male. |
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Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism. |
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"Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism. "
^^ thank you Mr Wiki  |
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By *rtyIanMan
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"Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism.
^^ thank you Mr Wiki "
Mr Pedant please |
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He not She.
Maybe George self-identified as female
She was a cis female
I thought George orwell was the pen name of a guy called Eric Blair
You're correct! Just looked it up, I have always thought he was a she. Must have got muddled up with another author
My bad "
George Eliot of Mill on The Floss fame was a woman is that whi you're thinking of? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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He not She.
Maybe George self-identified as female
She was a cis female
I thought George orwell was the pen name of a guy called Eric Blair
You're correct! Just looked it up, I have always thought he was a she. Must have got muddled up with another author
My bad
George Eliot of Mill on The Floss fame was a woman is that whi you're thinking of?"
That's it! George elliot, thanks I was wondering how I got it wrong |
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By (user no longer on site)
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He not She.
Maybe George self-identified as female
She was a cis female
I thought George orwell was the pen name of a guy called Eric Blair
You're correct! Just looked it up, I have always thought he was a she. Must have got muddled up with another author
My bad
George Eliot of Mill on The Floss fame was a woman is that whi you're thinking of?"
All this reminds me of that sketch in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, where Stephen Fry tries returning a book by Jane Austen.
So funny. |
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You should read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley in tandem with 1984. It's a different take on a dystopian future but just as thought provoking and as scary. |
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"You should read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley in tandem with 1984. It's a different take on a dystopian future but just as thought provoking and as scary."
Good shout thank you, just ordered it |
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"You should read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley in tandem with 1984. It's a different take on a dystopian future but just as thought provoking and as scary."
I would definitely agree with this. Another amazing book
As is Catch 22 by Joseph Heller |
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"You should read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley in tandem with 1984. It's a different take on a dystopian future but just as thought provoking and as scary.
Good shout thank you, just ordered it "
Most welcome , hope you enjoy it. |
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"You should read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley in tandem with 1984. It's a different take on a dystopian future but just as thought provoking and as scary.
Good shout thank you, just ordered it
Most welcome , hope you enjoy it. "
Only £3 including postage (used) from a well known auction site |
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"Anyone read this book?
I remember reading it at school but didn't take much notice
I have just finished reading it again at the age of 59
Wow!! She wrote this book in 1949 about a future dystopian world beginning in 1984
So many predictions have come to reality
CCTV listening devices, tablets and computers, the national lottery etc etc
Amazing read highly recommended "
SHE? |
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