1984 was an awesome book.

Some one very wise once told me two things. One, "In order to have peace there must be war." And two, "Evil is good, and good is evil."

This next saying is from the third SW book,

"The dark is generous.
Its first gift is concealment: our true faces lie in the dark beneath our skins, our true hearts remain shadower deeper still. But the greatest concealment lies not in protecting our secret truths, but in hiding from us the truth of others.
The dark protects us from what we dare not know.
Its second gift is conforting illusion: the ease of gentle dreams in night's embrace, the beauty that imagination brings to what would repel in day's harsh light. But the greatest of its conforts is the illusion that the dark is temporary: that evry night brings a new day. Because it is day that is temporary.
Day is the illusion.
Its third gift is the light itself: as days are defined by the nights that divide them, as stars are defined by the infinate black through which they wheel, the dark embraces the light, and brings it forth from the center of its own self.
For each victory of the light, it is the dark that wins."

I live by this.

1984 IS an incredible book – I just finished All Quiet on the Western Front which was equally incredible…

… Jiro, nice passage – Oh, when you say “third SW book”, which one do you mean? The Last Command?

Revenge of the Sith.

...That is from Revenge of the Sith? Why the hell couldn't dialogue like that be in the freaking movies!?!

Damn you George Lucas!!!

That is what I would like to know.

Actually Animal farm is a good read too...

"All animals are equal..."

"though some are more equal than others..."


:P

Four legs good! Two legs better!

We finished reading 1984 in my english class the other day, and we read animal farm in my freshman english class last year.

But orwellls like a super creepy genus. In that part where O'breins torturing winston, and he say that stuff about freedom is slavery, and slavery is freedom, and that man would rather be happy than free. That is so true it's creepy, even though you may not like it. "you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad" -neil boortz.

I found a copy of all quiet on the western front from the 60s in my grandmas garage, and I am happy to say that is the 2nd best book ever on my list, after Battlefield Earth but before 1984.

And when you're done with 1984 read Brave New World. That was not bad as well. Read both last year in 11th grade.

I get to read pretty good stuff in school. Like Lord of the Flies and Catcher in the Rye just to name a few.