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TruckOSaurus on 30 July 2012
| non-gravity said: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four I consider this novel so important for a young person to understand, I read the entire thing out loud to my dyslexic teenage son a few years ago. Orwell had a unique understanding of the political future planned for the world by powers we're not supposed to know about. He put this picture together in his horrifying novel about a society gone mad with control. The characters want to live normal lives, but are prevented at every turn by "Big Brother" - the eye of the government. Orwell also wrote Animal Farm - a much shorter novel about how power corrupts. The characters are all animals - a strange thing in a novel intended for adults. I consider both his books to be VITAL reading for informed citizens. |
I went in here wanting to recommend exactly this book but it seems my work is done. Although it certainly doesn't fit the light-hearted criteria (the last third of the book is incredibly chilling), it is a book no one should pass up.
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