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Feb 22, 2014i_am rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Nineteen Eighty-Four is an eerily prophetic novel by George Orwell which shows a bleak world from which there is no escape for people from tyranny of a few as they seek to control the masses through a steady dose of patriotic wars, constant misinformation and by changing the history itself. In this world, not only saying things as they are is unimaginable but even thinking them through is a crime as the citizenry needs to be dumbed down into a servile and mindless horde. Knowledge is power and it must be destroyed so that the perceived reality can be more easily shaped by oppressors who will settle for nothing less than blind devotion from people to perpetuate their own rule. This is literature in its finest hour.