finished reading 1984 and animal house

[hunterwoundedft]

now that times have slowed a bit for me i have been able to enjoy a few books. in 4 days i have read both of george orwells books "1984" and "Animal farm". i have read many books, no where near even a hundred but i would say somewhere nearer 50 to 70. of all the books i have read these 2 stand out as truelly the most dreadfull thoughts that could come w/ our lives in republics and democracies. each book is based on revolutions comming to be and how everything ends back to where it was b4 the revolutions. many take power from the few, the few of the many take it back slowly w/ lies and eventually force. these books have spelled out GW's reign of power, we r not at all lost just yet but the end is soon IMO. another 20 to 50 years and wewill be ready for another revolution here in the states. another thing i have taken from these books is how it should not be feard to have another revolution at our present time. we r not actually in any kinda of war that has not been created outa of pure imagination.

 

[ozzy]

Never read either of the books but the movies were good.

 

[Feyd]

Do you mean Animal Farm? I think I read that in my expository writing class, even though I had read it in junior high...good book

 

[b8man]

You mean Animal Farm?

Both great books. The written word can pull you through the emotional wringer much better than film - it's a much more intimate experience in my opinion.

Though these days the news depresses the shit out of me, so I tend to read more upbeat or escapist books. Big fan of Douglas Coupland for that - very light reading.

 

[TheGoodStuff]

Yeah Animal House is a movie about a frat house...
US Gov't is getting to be like in 1984

 

[medical_shed]

Both classics.

 

[begeesterdechol]

indeed, george orwell is the man.

I'm reading homage to catalonia right now, by orwell too.

 

[daddy fingaz]

'animal house'

^ that doesnt bode well for his understanding of the book!! ..only joking mate, good reads well done!

 

[guest]

"With intent .."

Thought crime.

 

[9Lives]

I am a BIG fan of Orwell..and 1984 is my favorite book so far.

What i liked most about 1984...was the DETAIL! Especially the FOOD! The taste of fake coffe and gin..the same meals over and over again. That IMO is true despair. Life without variety is hell! (Everyone who has seen the film i really really must recommend the book...The film does not reflect much on Winstons inner thoughts..and that IMO is key!)

I also think that's what many people forget when discussing such post-modern world. I asked my father once how he imagined living when all we know now is perished. His answer was..''Well no problem there..we'll just grow potatoes or something!''..

Good luck with that!

 

[greenhead]

" Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me. "

- George Orwell

The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not to follow their thoughts beyond that point. But there is a minority of intellectual pacifists, whose real though unacknowledged motive appears to be hatred of western democracy and admiration for totalitarianism. Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one side is as bad as the other, but if one looks closely at the writing of the younger intellectual pacifists, one finds that they do not by any means express impartial disapproval but are directed almost entirely against Britain and the United States

- George Orwell

 

[Guest]

Read "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.

 

[The Uncola]

Americans are now living in a real life version of 1984. The implications are terrifying. Few Americans realize this b/c they are mostly occupied by American Idol and think that Dr. Phil is a true genius! They still think that Saddam committed the 9/11 crimes, just as GWB ordered them to believe.

 

[greenhead]

Americans are now living in a real life version of 1984.

Bit paranoid ? If this was really 1984, then your face would currently be inside a steel cage with a hungry rat waiting to chew off your nose.

You should move to the UK with their millions of CCTV cameras capturing everybody's moves multiple times every day.

 

[hunterwoundedft]

animal farm.lol give a guy a break.

animal farm u can tell is a precourser to 1984. this i believe is where he realy honed in his ideas. although a poster recognized the peril we in the US r having he did not mention what is happening in Russia right now as well. both the US and Russia r having our own seprate boughts w/ "Big Brother". in the US the vast majority of people recognize we r being taken control of and we r loosing liberties for reasons made up by the government and just refuse to or have no idea how to do anything about it. in russia the majority r happy this is happening and see nothing wrong w/ it, they encourage it. alot like the beginings of animal farm.

in anycase revolution is a human cycle and its course will come if government does not check itself. when it does come it will be quikly.

 

[RandyMarsh]

1984 was probably the only book (aside from the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy series) I read more than once, and I've read it around 5 times now. Such a great commentary on the government's struggle for control and very easy to apply it to the modern world (though saying we're in a modern day 1984 is reaaaaally stretching it)

It's also a great contributer to my ever growing paranoia about everything.

But that could be the reefer's doing too....
ah well

 

[Harry Gypsna]

you should check out aldous huxleys brave new world... a totally opposite view of the future(at the time it was written)
Huxley was a bit condascending to arwell about 1984, comlimenting the book oin being really good, and then saying afterward that he really thinks things are actually more more likely to turn out how he said win brave new world... OI was watching a documentary about old school scio-fci/fantasy genres and the Utopia/Distopia theme whch was common-for good reason in the time that the works of huxley and later orwell were written...
Now I ask you this..
What what be in YOUR room 101

 

[thcbound]

Americans are now living in a real life version of 1984. The implications are terrifying. Few Americans realize this b/c they are mostly occupied by American Idol and think that Dr. Phil is a true genius! They still think that Saddam committed the 9/11 crimes, just as GWB ordered them to believe.

That is one of the most ignorant posts I have ever read.

 

[dfa]

If you liked Animal House you should check out Beverly Hills Cop 1 and 2. Which most consider to be a "Timeless Masterpiece"

 

[hunterwoundedft]

in my room 101 would be the cops ripping my plants to pieces.
don't do it to me do it to...............