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1984....
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:28 pm
by Freakaloin
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 5:16 am
by Lenard
That book sucks.
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 5:22 am
by HM-PuFFNSTuFF
Lenard wrote:That boot sucks.
it does indeed
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:16 am
by Grudge
it's a great book
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:40 am
by o'dium
The year i was born

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:06 am
by Transient
Lenard wrote:That book sucks.
Why? Because it's accurate?
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:17 pm
by Freakaloin
o'dium wrote:The year i was born

grow up junior...
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:32 pm
by R00k
HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:Lenard wrote:That boot sucks.
it does indeed
Really? I thought it was a great book.
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 5:59 pm
by Transient
Puff and I agree. But Puff has a bit of a thing against Lenard's boots, it seems.
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:06 pm
by Massive Quasars
o'dium wrote:The year i was born

A little young to be gettin' married, no?
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:17 pm
by Transient
51% of all marriages end in divorce.
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:28 pm
by Lenard
Grudge wrote:it's a great book
It was good for it's time, I guess. It is very biased though.
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:29 pm
by Transient
Hmm, I wonder why...
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:37 pm
by R00k
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
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:08 pm
by Grudge
biased? it's fiction ffs
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:10 pm
by werldhed
It was a disappointing book. Only marginally better than Brave New World.
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:24 pm
by R00k
Aside from a few moments, I thought Brave New World was pretty overrated when I read it.
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:26 pm
by Grudge
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.
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:44 pm
by seremtan
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
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:06 pm
by Lenard
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.
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:08 pm
by Tsakali_
this just in: aluminum foil stock sky rockets
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:02 pm
by R00k
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:
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:23 pm
by Transient
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:
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:37 pm
by werldhed
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:
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:59 pm
by seremtan
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