1984: 75th Anniversary

I get this was cheap, but it was nearly impossible to ready because of its build. The pages are so narrow, the words get partially sucked into the spine because there is almost no margin.I had to jam the two sides of the book down as hard as I could on a flat surface to get it to open enough to read the words in the spine. This also meant you had to use two hands the whole time you were reading, which was also not ideal. Super annoying, but again, I guess you get what you pay for.

Exactly what we needed for class. Required reading is not enjoyable reading. lol

This is my second time around with this title...read it decades ago the first time. It's still a great book. Every single person on the planet should read it.

I wasn’t expecting an impact so heavy. This book is truly profound. In ways that you cannot prepare for. The treachery of total control. Of absolute planning. Breaking of human spirit. Destruction of past present and future. It’s a horrid thing to consider and even more-so in the present day with our knowledge of those groups that attempted to create such a nation state in the past.It should be required reading, perhaps not in high schools where the mind is too young to really grasp what is being said (except perhaps with a great instructor) but in literary courses in university. Democracy is at risk without knowledge of what the total absence of it looks like. The era of WW2 is starting to become seemingly ancient and so that risk of it disappearing forever from our minds is real.All I can say is, those who read it will find themselves captivated by what is potentially possible. It’s a world unlike anything you have probably explored, especially in full

Amazing book. So relevant it could have been written last week.