1984

It's so shocking that I can't express it in words. The process of reading it was shocking, terrifying, depressing, despairing, and giving me nightmares. A masterpiece, an indisputable masterpiece. I will write a long review if I have the chance. "1984" Should be regarded as the most shocking book I have read this year. It shocked me even more deeply than "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (of course, its use of writing techniques, word choice and sentence structure, and text information density are far inferior to "One Hundred Years of Solitude"). Even if you put aside its strong political implications, it is still a great science fiction suspense novel. George Orwell's grasp of human nature and his understanding of totalitarian society reached an extremely profound level. Before reading "1984", I had no idea what a "political horror" novel was, and I couldn't imagine why "politics" and "horror" could be connected. But as I read, I felt the deep fear step by step. From the initial shock and shock of the extreme control of people's thoughts by this society, to later I really felt this control and the terror brought by this control. Orwell's superb writing allowed me to achieve a profound transformation from a simple reader to a real participant in the story - I even had nightmares because of Winston's arrest at the end of the second part. This kind of fear is not the fear of ghosts in the secular sense, but a more profound fear of trying to maintain the most basic emotions and cognition as a person, but being unable to succeed. Yes, in the world depicted in the book, dying happily is an impossible victory. Being subjected to inhuman physical torture and dying of one's own will is a huge victory (which is also impossible). However, being tortured both mentally and physically will be a huge victory. Your basic emotions, basic desires, and basic understanding of the world as a person are completely stripped away, and you are completely reshaped into a human skin with only the worship of power and support for the party. Death is the destined destination of those who commit so-called "thought crimes." When reading the third book, I always couldn't bear to read after seeing one-third of the torture. Orwell not only wrote three-thirds, but also five-thirds and nine-thirds, so that the pain that almost overflowed the book made me extremely depressed and desperate. You always think, ah, this should be over soon. Winston even thinks that 2+2=5 - but it is far from enough. He cannot even maintain the basic emotions of a person. He can't love Julia, he can't hate Big Brother. So the torture continued, and in the end, even what the hero and heroine said in the attic, "Keeping one's own consciousness is a victory" was impossible and a complete failure. You know, when I read this, all I thought in my mind was "what a humble hope." But later, even such a humble hope was impossible to achieve: those consciousnesses that were mysterious to Winston himself were actually peeled away, destroyed, and reshaped by the party. In the end, an ending that was extremely desperate and depressing, but extremely consistent with the fate of the character and the laws of the worldview was born: Winston was completely dehumanized and reshaped into a person whose emotions, thoughts, behavior, and cognition were completely controlled, and then he was shot. The story ends here. This is undoubtedly an extremely depressing and extremely shocking ending. It is precisely this ending that leaves no trace of hope at all that truly gives this political epic its charm that transcends time. It allows Winston's tragedy to still touch us living in the free world even today, nearly a hundred years later, and leaves Orwell's profound thoughts in our hearts across the long river of time, leaving an indelible mark of awakening in our hearts.

Yes, this is a beautiful book. It tells the life perspective of ordinary people living in unutopia, and it is very close to the characters and the actual narrative. Thought experiments that can broaden people's horizons and cognition…

2026.3.12 A repressive society, a society in the shadows. The extreme political conception is shocking and worth reading.

This book is very interesting! Orwell created many interesting words, such as "Big Brother", "Doublethink" and "Newspeak". His descriptions were very vivid and made me feel like I was in the world in the book. Moreover, this book is not simply an anti-communist or anti-Soviet work. It made me think about a lot of issues about politics and power. I think this is a book worth reading again and again!

It's shocking. Human death begins with the death of thoughts. The thought control in the book is very naughty, taking advantage of physical pain and depriving love to eliminate the freedom of thought.

Wonderful. Fear. Worth reading.

I can finally watch it. I am watching it now.

Conservative paradise

Nb, nothing else but nb

Although I know the ending is not good, it will still make people sigh when they actually see it. However, I think this book should be read in the context of the times, otherwise it will reduce half the fun.

Shocking, my brain is shaking after reading it

After this night, I was deathly afraid of rats. The scariest novel I have read in my four years of reading.