This book did not disappoint! Absolutely loved it.

داستان فوق العاده، شخصیت پردازی عالی یک داستان کوتاه اما زنده
هزاربار هم خونده بشه کمه

If you read this book as a straight fiction then it’s a novel for children and I am sure they will enjoy it and of course they will start to hate the pigs (maybe that’s why we don’t see many cartoons or stories with pigs for children except Peppa pig which my grandkids love so much).

However if it’s a political story that represents a party that overthrows a government and takes over the country giving promises to the people and then in years to come changes those promises, then the writer had succeeded in proving the point. The book can be applied to any country as in my opinion any new comer wants to make himself lovable by the people, slowly making changes that benefit himself and maybe his party and forgets about the livelihood of the public. We can also apply the novel to revolutions, new comers to politics, whether religious or otherwise, and personal takeover of governments. When economy shows improvement then a human being will show his real self, he or she will think of maximum gains to oneself and forget about the others, ensuring that they will either be killed or imprisoned.

The story narrates our life since time memorial and I have to say that I had felt great pain after reading it.

I left the preface to the story to the end. It seems that the writer meant The Soviet Union!! What was interesting to me that I read the book on the way to Russia, and when I reached there I was discussing it with my Russian friend who said that the book was written about UK government. So there is a great misconception in the book that I am not going to indulge in.

Good book. I gave 3 stars because of my sad feeling and not because it’s a bad book.

This collection contains two of Orwell's greatest works that most certainly complement each other and are thus worth reading together. Yet because I wrote a separate review for Animal Farm, I will stick to 1984 in this review.

Not only can Orwell write with the best of them, but his philosophical and intellectual insights are notable. A story about one man's ultimately futile resistance against a powerful and totalitarian regime, 1984 illustrates how absolute power corrupts absolutely.

I think what is so disturbing about Orwell's terrifying dystopian world, where War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength, is that it doesn't seem so far-fetched. In some ways it feels more like an exaggeration of some tangible reality than science fiction.

Written more than half a century ago, I wonder what Orwell would've thought if he had lived to see the advances in technology that make his vision not only more plausible but more probable.

I happened to start reading The Believing Brain by Michael Shermer as I was finishing up this book, and was amazed by Orwell's discussion and commentary on belief and belief systems and how perfectly his musings fit with advances in the neuroscience of today.

I would personally recommend this book to everyone. Gripping story, memorable characters, poignant subject manner, all delivered with a chillingly prophetic narrative that demands your thought and reflection.

Too true. So scary.

Animal Farm and 1984 are two exceptional novels, both of which I originally read as a young teenager, and have returned to several times. Need I say more?

Animal Farm

Much like 1984, Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, Animal Farm is disquietingly morose and prophetic. In fact, if you substitute Hillary for "Snowball" and Donald for "Napoleon," it reads like the Daily News.

Update 24 Jan 2021: when I wrote this years ago I was unaware how injurious it might be to compare the actions of a sitting American president to those of an Orwellian pig. Now, after four years of president Donald J Trump, I feel I owe an apology—to the Orwellian pig.

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1984

So wonderfully written yet totally bleak and disconcerting. I don't think Orwell's Oceania is beyond the realm of possibility. In fact, many aspects are already disturbingly familiar.

Big Brother is watching

این کتابو به همه پیشنهاد میکنم بخونن

I never saw that ending coming!

The introduction gave me the lens I needed to enjoy this book. It said it was a fairytale, and defined that specifically as a tale in which all the characters are amoral, and one which reveals an undeniable truth that you don’t like. I listened to the audiobook with this lens and because of that, enjoyed it immensely.

These are Orwell's most famous books. Both are dystopian tales of the dangers of a totalitarian government.

Similarities between the books:
• The government's assertion that it knows best.
• The intelligentsia seize power.
• The naive proletariat are oppressed and kept ignorant.
• The government bends or breaks its own rules for its benefit.
• The government uses propaganda to keep the proletariat in check.
• The government rewrites history to prove that it's correct and that life is better with the government than it was before the government's rise to power.
• Both books have pessimistic endings.

Here are my reviews of the books:
Animal Farm
1984

The SparkNotes for both books are very good: Animal Farm and 1984.