Hmmm.
What a strange book. What a heavy-handed message. What unlikable characters.
Seriously—when asked, Winston describes his first impression of Julia by saying he wanted to rape, then murder her. And then she laughs at this. Seriously.
There is so much dystopian lit out there right now, and a lot of it leaves a lot to be desired. But at least most of those stories make us care about the people in them, make us hope for change, make us look into the evils of our own society and think.
While I'm sure this book was thought-provoking, numbing, terrifying in 1949, this reader found it to fall a little flat today.
