1984 - Part One

....WOW.

This book is much more depressing than I had previously suspected. Before I cracked the spine of this classic and beloved novel, my knowledge of it's plot was sketchy at best. I knew that it was about the horrors of totalitarian barbarism, and that the premise was that in 1984, roughly 25 years from when this book was written, the world has turned into a horrible distopia, and Great Britain was virtually dissolved and is now ruled by one 'Big Brother', who is always watching you. But as I began to read further into the book, I realized it was about much more. The only problem I have found in this book so far (I am about at page 50), is that it makes you think too much. I can hardly read one page without having to stop and having an internal ethical debate for several minutes before continuing. This book is very dense, and takes quite a while to read. Unfortunately, I don't have a while in which to read it, so I'm in quite a predicament. But alas, an assignment is an assignment and as this blog has been assigned for me to do by a higher power which I have no control over, I must do my best. And so, internet, wish me luck, and away we go.