This is a great book.Every chapter is suspenseful.

Amazing book. It's a must read for everybody.

Before I write the review of the actual book, there are a few things I'd like to say about today's politics and privacy. A) Obama is constantly linked to the recent breech in privacy, but this monitoring had been going on years before he was elected. B) In 1984, the government watches citizens and tries to smother personality and rebellion, while today's government is watching for terrorist attacks like the Boston Marathon and 9/11. C) Obama told us about these privacy laws, which is more than can be said for prior presidents. (But I'm only 13, and this is purely opinion.) Now onto the fun part of the review! This book was thought provoking, intellectual, and clearly written by a very smart man. At times, it was gripping. But you know those celebrities and smart people who write books because there's not much else to do? I think books should be written by people who need to write and have a passion for storytelling, and I don't think George Orwell is one of those people. There were entire chapters I skimmed because of the remarkable tedium. So overall, I give this book three stars.

just finished reading this book.. wow!!! so accurately described OT (Obama Time). IRS, Obamacare fines, criminalizing journalism, criminalizing whistleblower.... scary... except this is no fiction.

The story itself is a very simple, straightforward one with very few twists and surprises in the plot, but this is the least important element of the novel. The really important thing is that George Orwell's idea of a dystopian (or "Orwellian") society is not so far off from what society has really become. It really helps readers to reflect on what their country was and what it's become. How free are we really?

This is by far my favorite book. It's ahead of its time and it's timeless (as any real art is). It's scary to think about the society structure pictured in this masterpiece. What's more scary is that it is very realistic and it may actually be true. I recommend this book to anyone.

A perfectly bleak picture of the future where reality is whatever the controlling power says it is. The language that Orwell introduced in this book is so influential in our politics that it's worth reading to see how Orwell's ideas permeate our society today.

1984 is a defining book about a tyrant whose goal is to control all and have a so called “peace” everywhere. Winston is like an everyday person who strives to achieve his goal as a worker. He finds himself as a slave to “Big Brother” when actually he is equal to “Big Brother”. This sensational feeling Winston gets every time he sees everyone’s suffering makes him want to change the way his life turns. He along with Julia, try to save everyone from his reign. This is also shown in everyone’s daily life with how people control us and manipulate us even though we are their equal as a boss to employee or father to son. People choose what they want to do with their lives, not bad choices where others can help but good choices which cause good things to happen. The choice that Winston has made has caused him to see the good in everything and people have a right to be who they want to be. Julia is more like a saint that showed Winston his error in following Big Brother for all those years. Winston had seen signs like a doll which was destroyed from a war. This relates to the Spanish civil war that Orwell had fallen into and he had brought up and amazing book. This science fictional book demonstrates tyranny is not an answer for survival, its freedom of “good” choice that will help people reach happiness. Once again and finally see what they have been missing for so long.

This book is fantastic! I couldn't put it down.

Orwell used logic and knowledge of his present to tell us of our future. This book disturbs me as it's implications are coming true today.