I am currently reading the book 1984, by George Orwell. I have just only started reading and from what I can tell, this story is not going to be like most others that I have read. The book starts out slow, but as I delve deeper into the story line I can see that it does have its perks.
The fact that this book was written right after World War II had ended makes me realize some of the connections the author was making as he was writing this novel. After WWII everyone was afraid of dictatorships. No one knew how the world would recover, but it did. What George Orwell did in his novel was he envisioned a futuristic world only 35 years into the future at the time. This alternate world was what everything could be if dictators ruled.
While I commend his imagination, I do wonder if the book could have been even better if someone with a different, more exciting, writing style had written it.
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