Book #4 – 1984 by George Orwell

First published hot on the heels of World War II, this dystopian novels has become a favorite of high school reading lists. Mine veered a little and went with Fahrenheit 451 and Animal Farm instead. So, I got the taste for anti-thought dystopia and the anti-communist propaganda without reading 1984. I will say this, if you haven’t read Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, Animal Farm, The Handmaid’s Tale, Ender’s Game, The Hunger Games, the Giver, or Divergent… I might reference them. Because it’s very difficult to reference Big Brother without referencing rival thought processes and contemporaries.

Also, I definitely didn’t set out to make this review read like a book report I’d write for high school, but that’s sort of how it ended up…