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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

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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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

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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By *avid4olderMan
over a year ago

North Coast

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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By *TG3Man
over a year ago

Dorchester


"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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By *ittlebirdWoman
over a year ago

The Big Smoke

I love the book and re-read it often OP. It’s very telling about human nature

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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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By *affeine DuskMan
over a year ago

Caerphilly

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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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds


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He not She."

Maybe George self-identified as female

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

I had to do it as part of my O level in 1984, the other two were a Shakespeare play and a Chaucer tale.

As a fifteen year old I found it a drag.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"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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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"

He not She.

Maybe George self-identified as female "

She was a cis female

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By *ittlebirdWoman
over a year ago

The Big Smoke


"

He not She.

Maybe George self-identified as female

She was a cis female "

I’m not sure he was OP. But still the book and many of his others are marvellous

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"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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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT


"

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

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"

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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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"

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 "

It was

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By *ellhungvweMan
over a year ago

Cheltenham


"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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By *gent CoulsonMan
over a year ago

Secret hideaway in the pennines


"

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 "
correct

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By *TG3Man
over a year ago

Dorchester


"

He not She.

Maybe George self-identified as female "
crossdresser

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By *rtyIanMan
over a year ago

Gateway to the Beacons

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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By *ittlebirdWoman
over a year ago

The Big Smoke


"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
over a year ago

Gateway to the Beacons


"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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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex


"

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   
over a year ago


"

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)
over a year ago


"

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds


"

He may have been confusing him with George Eliot."

Good point

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"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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By *ittlebirdWoman
over a year ago

The Big Smoke


"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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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