Even this review made me remember the story somewhat! It's funny how our understanding of books change on second readings as adults. 1984 read in my 30s was wildly different, for example, from my reading it at 16.
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I have a copy of 1984 within a metre of where I'm sitting right now. I don't want to read it again because it will prove to be as prophetic as it always has been. I am fucking certain! That Orwell didn't intend for it to be a governance instruction manual.
Ha it's super depressing. Also a bit repetitive - I think it'd be a better book condensed a little. Still, very powerful, and yes, prophetic. The condensing of language bothers me the most. Our right to express ourselves through art, literature, voice. Is AI going to take our ability to do that? Or perhaps there's always an artist inside us who will find a way to express itself when the need is so great. Oh .. I have a story forming! I haven't written in ages... If I don't lose this idea maybe I'll write it when I get back from Bali.
Oh! And I'm reading this on Kindle ATM... It was a booker short list I think. Very interesting...might be worth putting on hold at library?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205673377-under-the-eye-of-the-big-bird
Yes they doo.... Its a several month wait, but I anticipate I'll still be alive then.
Fingers crossed