1984....

Post by **Freakaloin** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:28 pm

fuck u george for giving them the idea!...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/ ... meras.html

Post by **Lenard** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 5:16 am

That book sucks.

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 5:22 am

Lenard wrote:That boot sucks.

it does indeed

Post by **Grudge** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:16 am

it's a great book

Post by **o'dium** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:40 am

The year i was born

Post by **Transient** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:06 am

Lenard wrote:That book sucks.

Why? Because it's accurate?

Post by **Freakaloin** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:17 pm

o'dium wrote:The year i was born

grow up junior...

Post by **R00k** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:32 pm

HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:
Lenard wrote:That boot sucks.
it does indeed

Really? I thought it was a great book.

Post by **Transient** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 5:59 pm

Puff and I agree. But Puff has a bit of a thing against Lenard's boots, it seems.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:06 pm

o'dium wrote:The year i was born

A little young to be gettin' married, no?

Post by **Transient** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:17 pm

51% of all marriages end in divorce.

Post by **Lenard** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:28 pm

Grudge wrote:it's a great book

It was good for it's time, I guess. It is very biased though.

Post by **Transient** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:29 pm

Hmm, I wonder why...

Post by **R00k** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:37 pm

Very biased? It's not a documentary, lol. It's one man's vision of a possible future.

Bias doesn't enter into it; it's essentially the inverse of a personal fantasy.

It's like saying Stephen King books are biased.

If things out of Stephen King's books started happening in the world, and people started denouncing his books as biased because of some of his fantasy predictions, I would think that sounds a little defensive. hehe

Post by **Grudge** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:08 pm

biased? it's fiction ffs

Post by **werldhed** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:10 pm

It was a disappointing book. Only marginally better than Brave New World.

Post by **R00k** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:24 pm

Aside from a few moments, I thought Brave New World was pretty overrated when I read it.

Post by **Grudge** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:26 pm

werldhed wrote:It was a disappointing book. Only marginally better than Brave New World.

It's been a huge influence, both on politics and popular culture during the whole post-WWII era. I'm sorry it did not live up to your expectations.

Post by **seremtan** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:44 pm

dear eric blair

according to werldhed, your book '1984' is 'only marginally better than Brave New World'. i would ask that when werldhed joins you in the afterlife, could you please stab him

thanks

p.s. say hi to franco for me

Post by **Lenard** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:06 pm

R00k wrote:Very biased? It's not a documentary, lol. It's one man's vision of a possible future.

Bias doesn't enter into it; it's essentially the inverse of a personal fantasy.

It's like saying Stephen King books are biased.

If things out of Stephen King's books started happening in the world, and people started denouncing his books as biased because of some of his fantasy predictions, I would think that sounds a little defensive. hehe

Actually, this sounds a little defensive. It was another one of those books whose message could have been summed up in a few paragraphs. A few good ideas, one basic, incredibly simple goal. Authoritarian communism is bad. whhoopt.

Post by **Tsakali_** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:08 pm

this just in: aluminum foil stock sky rockets

Post by **R00k** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:02 pm

Lenard wrote:Actually, this sounds a little defensive. It was another one of those books whose message could have been summed up in a few paragraphs. A few good ideas, one basic, incredibly simple goal. Authoritarian communism is bad. whhoopt.

That was hardly the message of the book. :icon27:

Post by **Transient** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:23 pm

Lenard wrote: Actually, this sounds a little defensive. It was another one of those books whose message could have been summed up in a few paragraphs. A few good ideas, one basic, incredibly simple goal. Authoritarian communism is bad. whhoopt.

Almost every novel's message can be summed up in a few paragraphs. There's a reason it's a book instead of an essay, you artard. :icon27:

Post by **werldhed** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:37 pm

seremtan wrote:dear eric blair

according to werldhed, your book '1984' is 'only marginally better than Brave New World'. i would ask that when werldhed joins you in the afterlife, could you please stab him

thanks

p.s. say hi to franco for me

:icon26:
My real problem with both 1984 and Brave New World is that they started out with such potential, but by the end they just become sermons that you wait to trickle down. If I wanted a lecture on sociology... well... I'd go to a sociology class.

Animal Farm is where it's at. :icon14:

Post by **seremtan** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:59 pm

yeah but look at the vocab 1984 gave us, without which we would stutter and hesitate when trying to describe an entire genus of bullshit