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I think lots of people like 1984. It is my favorite book because I read it at the ideal, impressionable age. I tend to re-read bits of my favorite books, and have probably re-read it 3 or 4 times putting it all together.

Like the above poster, I also recommend We. I probably like 1984 better overall, but We has dark humor and more elegant prose, depending on the translation you get.
 
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Speaking of 1984...I read an article a couple of days back that addressed the issue of replacing history books with only online materials in our schools.

Anyone else think this is a bad idea?

Why is this a bad idea? It will save schools money to use on other things. You can just as easily lie in a physical textbook as you can in an electronic textbook so I don't see why this is part of some massive conspiracy.
 
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Yes bad idea...big brother is watching you.

One of Heinlein's stories If This Goes On actually has instructions for surviving in a Big Brother society. Good adventure story in a dystopian society. More or less a happy ending, at least for the setting. And a bit of rather horrible but appropriate vengeance.

Some here will hate it as the dystopian society is a Christian Theocracy. Catholics can read without fear on that point, it is very clear that they are on the persecuted end of things. Fundamentalist Evangelicals should approach with caution.
 
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One of Heinlein's stories If This Goes On actually has instructions for surviving in a Big Brother society. Good adventure story in a dystopian society. More or less a happy ending, at least for the setting. And a bit of rather horrible but appropriate vengeance.

Some here will hate it as the dystopian society is a Christian Theocracy. Catholics can read without fear on that point, it is very clear that they are on the persecuted end of things. Fundamentalist Evangelicals should approach with caution.
Interesting - thats actually something Schaeffer was concerned about but in a different way, not a theocracy as such but a monolithic culture in another direction, an elite. Rushdooney I admit scared me a bit but I don't really know much of what he said, or actually thought.

So I agree a hyper calvinist theocracy is scarey.

Anyone still around these days advocating something like that - some kind of Christian [but Old Testament] theocracy?
One can't find any support for it in St Paul, or the Gospels.

I think there are many putting forth their own visions for new world orders - M. Scott Peck, Eckhard Tolle, Marrianne Williamson, probably half the self-help gurus!! Which one is selling the most now? LOL

For instance how many people have been Oprahised (partly anyway - I was almost totally in my late teens "Ma turn that freaking show off - while there's still time, before the process is complete - its doin something, im not sure, I don't know what, it might be too late. Just turn it off in case" - lol) the world over - both Christian and non-christians?

Oh boy - hope its not a night of bad vibes!

Send me none please , neither good or bad. Prayers welcome
 
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Does anyone else love this book? I read it again and again.

I have it, and have read it several times since high school to referencing it now.

I am a fan of post-apocalyptic political novels by people before [or privy to information to] our time.
 
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Speaking of 1984...I read an article a couple of days back that addressed the issue of replacing history books with only online materials in our schools.

Anyone else think this is a bad idea?

Yes it is, in the same fashion Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 illustrated the problem with burning books.


And essentially, hard print - script - has a class of authenticity to it. You can change the words of anything when it is simply digital because the original footprints can fall victim to revisionist history if done away with. How can I say with certainty that Oedipus Complexes are focal on inappropriate son-mother relationships if Oedipus is amended to say he gouged his eyes out after finding out he slept with a sorcerer, for example? Where would the physical, hard proof come from if not the actual book?

"Manuscripts" are what vindicate the authenticity of most all stories, religion and history. Not the cloud.
 
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I have read 1984 about four times. According to the story's postscript, the year 1984 only symbolizes the beginning, not the fulfillment, of the totalitarian state. This likely means that the writer expected things to get worse.


Read Jack London's The Scarlet Plague [written in 1912] which takes place in the year 2072. This is what anti-utopians were warning about.
 
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I've never read the book but my husband keeps telling me I should read it. It's supposedly some type of American required reading that I missed out on.. lol.

As far as digital textbooks instead of paper, I think it's a fine idea, and far less expensive for school districts.

I spent 30 dollars on a 16 gb tablet (black Friday sale) and 10 dollars on a tablet case (eBay) and I'm perfectly set with a Kindle app to read all the books I want..

There are times I'll hit up the library for the paper, sometimes curling up with a book is just nice, other times, I really like the tablet. I can read with minimal lighting which means I can read in the middle of the night, and it's not heavy like some of the large hardcover volumes can get..

So yeah, for kids? awesome idea.. the majority have tablets anyway, and lower income families could get assistance with school supplies of this nature if communities got together on it..

Just has to work..no need for fancy.
 
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I've never read the book but my husband keeps telling me I should read it. It's supposedly some type of American required reading that I missed out on.. lol.

As far as digital textbooks instead of paper, I think it's a fine idea, and far less expensive for school districts.

I spent 30 dollars on a 16 gb tablet (black Friday sale) and 10 dollars on a tablet case (eBay) and I'm perfectly set with a Kindle app to read all the books I want..

There are times I'll hit up the library for the paper, sometimes curling up with a book is just nice, other times, I really like the tablet. I can read with minimal lighting which means I can read in the middle of the night, and it's not heavy like some of the large hardcover volumes can get..

So yeah, for kids? awesome idea.. the majority have tablets anyway, and lower income families could get assistance with school supplies of this nature if communities got together on it..

Just has to work..no need for fancy.
I agree with your husband. But if you want to watch the film I recommend the 1984 version starring Richard burton (in his last film appearance before his death) and john hurt. It's as true to the book. They actually filmed it on the dates mentioned in the book itself. There is some nudity and short sex scenes though.
 
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