This book changed my lifeThe Goat writes, "Some books have made a huge impact on my life." It's true. It wasn't until the b3ta mods read the Flashman novels that we changed from mild-mannered computer operators into heavily-whiskered copulators, poltroons and all round bastards in a well-known cavalry regiment.
What books have changed the way you think, the way you live, or just gave you a rollicking good time?
Friendly hint: A bit of background rather than just a bunch of book titles would make your stories more readable
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chthonic, Thu 15 May 2008, 15:11)
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Nineteen Eighty FourAlthough Winston Smith and his fellow inner party workers are under constant and intrusive surveillence - and as a result both Winston and Julia are tortured in the Ministry of Love, it should be noted that the Proletariat are shown to be relatively free from such intrusion in the novel.
Indeed, Eric Arthur Blair discusses how Smith is awaiting his fateful visit to Room 101 in a cell containing a number of inmates, that the "Proles" seem relaxed and not fearful.
Big Brother is a device to control and monitor those close to the party, those regularly working with its' media rewrites and literature an allegory to the subjugation of the intelligensia in Eastern Europe both by the invading Nazis and by the Stalinist ideology.
Ultimatelty, the people responsible for rewriting the historical news bulletins and reforming the language into Newspeak are themselves rewritten. The very people closest to the regieme who can overthrow Big Brother end up overthrowing themselves.
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