1984...

[Sar]

I bought this today to read this week as I'm off work until the 16th (hurrah for Hols).

This is a book I've never read yet always meant to - has anyone else read it recently?

Thoughts, opinions etc...?

 

[pcg79]

s'good.

 

[ECA]

Yeah its a good book :-]

Definately worth a read.

 

[mank!]

Good, although the bit about The Theory of Oligarchical Collectivism (or whatever) is extraodinarily dull.

 

[Will]

I really liked that book. In fact, I liked it so much, for Higher English I did an essay comparing it to Brave New World.

Enjoy.

I refuse to give spoilers just before you read the book though.

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

Originally posted by Will.
I really liked that book. In fact, I liked it so much, for Higher English I did an essay comparing it to Brave New World.

Along with every other kid who had to read 1984 at school?

 

[xane]

1984 is a masterpiece, it has a "book within a book" and invents a whole new language, on a par with Clockwork Orange.

Don't forget the other Orwell classic Animal Farm.

 

[whipped]

Doesn't that invlove naked people and gerbils?

 

[xane]

Yeah, as the gerbils said "four legs = good, two legs and a cardboard tube up the bum = bad"

 

[Sar]

Originally posted by Scooba Da Bass
Along with every other kid who had to read 1984 at school?

I had: To kill a mocking bird.

 

[mank!]

We had Kestrel For a Knave :\

 

[Gumbo]

We had a term where we had to choose a book from a list, I did Billy Liar, a mate of mine did Northanger Abbey because he thought it would be a ghost story. How we laughed.......

 

[Will]

It wasn't a list book...I did it myself. Our list book was...so bad I've blanked it out, but it was some Scottish period drama nonsense.

 

[Xtro]

1984 is def.

 

[-Ultimate]

We did 'An Inspector calls' and 'Kes' oh how we laughed

 

[mank!]

I did An Inspector Calls as well. How strange, you're six years older than me yet we did the same curriculum.

 

[Xtro]

Strange...I did an Inspector.

 

[ECA]

I did inspector and kes as well.

 

[mank!]

Originally posted by Xtro
Strange...I did an Inspector.

You can get arrested for that

 

[Xtro]

Originally posted by mank!
You can get arrested for that

I did.

 

[mank!]

Harsh, but fair. Harsh but fair.

 

[-Ultimate]

Did you get to watch the quality black and white movie too mank?

 

[xane]

I did Wuthering Heights, To Kill A Mockingbird and My Family And Other Animals, plus MacBeth.

 

[mank!]

Fuck knows. I spent half of year 10 and 11 'sick'

 

[ECA]

Originally posted by mank!
Fuck knows. I spent half of year 10 and 11 'sick'

Same here.....fucking hope we're not related

 

[mank!]

So do I.

 

[echo]

Reviving an old thread and all, but how did you like 1984 Sar?

And I'd like to say that An Inspector Calls is good, I went to see a production of it at the Theater Royal in Nottingham a few months ago (off my own back, not for school or anything) and it was really, really good..!

Incidentally I read An Inspector Calls, MacBeth (alright) and Of Mice And Men (good) at GCSE, and Othello at A Level.

 

[mank]

I did An Inspector Calls at GCSE, wasn't bad but studying books in the manner we did more or less ruins any chance you have of enjoying it :/

 

[echo]

Ahh, we just read through them, acted bits out etc.. The A Level books were the best to study because my set consisted entirely of stoners and dropouts, so everyone was off their tits and trying to act scenes from MacBeth

 

[Sar]

Never really got very far into it - started Altered Carbon shortly after posting this and I'm currently reading Chasm City atm.