Nineteen Eighty Four Anniversary Edition: Anniversary Eidition (Penguin Modern Classics) Paperback – International Edition, June 23, 2009

I have a visual impairment, I don't read many books as the print in most books is too small and I find reading them to be tedious. The only real book I've ever finished was "Flowers for Algernon" a book that I really enjoyed.I wish there were more audio books like this. Now a days it feels like audio books are everywhere, but it's usually just "Celebrity reads book."This CD of 1984 is a radio drama, it is fully voice acted by multiple people, there are plenty of sound effects and the whole thing is done amazingly.I absolutely loved this CD and I wish more like them existed.1984 is not simply a fiction book that seems so far from reality anymore, unfortunately it feels more and more like this could be reality if people don't stand up for their right to privacy and free speech.I highly recommend this book/audio CD to whoever is interested in it.

Loved this book because invites the reader to think about our own political system and social media manipulation and perception of news and events, in this story or the the world we live in where perception becomes reality.Fascinating and scary, a black mirror that foresee perhaps the future, or present.

Liked the story. Just thought it was narrated

The adaptation was good. But reading the book beforehand would improve understanding the events.

The term Big Brother is almost a cliche today, but I imagine most folks who use it have never read the book that made the name so infamous. For Orwell's purposes, Big Brother was the personification of "the Inner Party" or just "the Party," that 1-2% group of elitists who ruled over the fictionalized country called Oceania [a.k.a., the UK, US and all other English-speaking countries].It's ironic that Orwell was so pessimistic throughout this book since he was himself a socialist. His idea of socialism, however, was not so malicious, even though just as powerful. Like most idealists, he had hoped socialism would bring about an end to elitism, where the law of the jungle would be managed by a brotherhood of man [Humanism, the religion of the New World Order]. By the late 1930's though, the soviet experiment was proving that true socialism was an impossibility for inevitably ruthless individuals always rise to the top, ulimately producing an oligarchy [rule by a few].I see in the figure Big Brother another evil that Orwell would never have suggested, being an atheist/humanist. Big Brother is the god of this world, the prince of darkness, the devil -- Satan. The issue that allows me to make this connection is knowledge. Note throughout 1984 that Big Brother's goal is to control minds by controlling knowledge. The "Proles" [85% of the people] were severely limited by their education, an education supplied [rationed] by the state. Sound familiar? Do you ever wonder why public schools are failing? Do you suppose it's possible they're actually succeeding in their intended purpose? Of course, a more forceful control was required of "Outer Party" members, that 10-14% given just enough education and training to perform complex tasks required by the state. Thus, the neccessity for the Thought Police [sort of like the PC pundits of today, only with official government power to cure thought criminals like pro-lifers, gun owners, Christian fundamentalists, etc.].Then too is the application of "Newspeak," that effort by Big Brother to control the minds of everyone by limiting vocabulary. Although a limited vocabulary doesn't limit one's ability to actually think, it does limit one's ability to articulate what he or she is thinking, so that eventually the thought vaporizes. Knowledge is built on knowledge. Prevent a core knowledge from developing and you can essentially control how people think about certain issues. Unborn babies aren't babies; they become fetuses. Sexual deviants becomes gay. And enemies of the state become anyone refusing to accept the absolute authority of the state.Where does Satan fit in with this analogy with Big Brother? Was it not Satan who beguiled us regarding knowledge by asking, "Yea, hath God said?" He has always tried to control our knowledge of good and evil, even to the point of quoting Scripture to the Lord Jesus in an attempt to trick the very Son of God into doubting Himself, if not the Father. Shortly after the 66 books making up the Bible were established as canon, papal decree forbid the lay Christian from possessing a copy of the Bible. Why? More recently, modern bibles have been edited for political correctness and reflect the belief system of the Gnostics who were thriving in Alexandria, Egypt in the 4th Century. Gnostics denied the deity of Christ and absolute moral values, claiming only that which is spiritual matters, so what men and women do in or with their bodies does not. Thus the roots of moral relativism.All those who attempt to control knowledge, academic and biblical, are doing the bidding of Big Brother. Those who fall for it are little more than simple "outer party" members, foolish "proles" or scornful "inner party" members. Think about it.Other books similar to this one include the following: Animal Farm, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, New Age Bible Versions, The Underground History of American Education, Educating for the New World Order and Legally STUPiD: Why Johnny doesn't have to read.

How much more famous does this need to be for more people to start noticing we are living this story right now and have been for over a century... I swear the internet is making us weaker and weaker as a species. Just an easier way for the elite to disseminate more and more subliminals and fear tactics.

This book should be manditory reading in grade school. As a whole, 1984 depicts the world as many in todays world want it to be,but won't admit it of course, a world with out free speech, with out free thought, without the ability to critique and question; yet Orwell created the book prior to the calamities we see around us. Prophetic in a fashion, buit also written in a time when PC sugar coating wasnt the norm and you could see and even say what needed to be said. Big brother is watching us, whether it be the ACLU, some church, some group of fanatics who want to take away freedom, the GOV't, whoever. This book shows the desolate result when human curiosity is censored and oppressed, and the will is stamped out. Dystopian literature is a good thing, it isnt all bells and happy ssmiles, but that is life, and in order to fight against terrible things you need to know why they are evil. This book shows why and how many things become evil even without the need for a diety. Collectively our "Room 101" is not far off if we dont wake up and stop the idiocy of placating becasue we dont want to offend. Part of being human is being offended, part of humanity is the capacity to be unhappy; some say being sad all the time is a sickness, but the person who thinks things are fine all the time I believe is far more ill because if you look around the world, things are not OK; they are turning out alot like 1984.

Book was slightly bent and crumpled at the side. Other than that the book was in good condition and I can't wait to read it.

Alles super, habe nichts zu beanstanden.

Le contrôle des masses par les média sociaux....La manipulation à grande échelle.Les dictatures en sont très heureuses.Les adultes devraient le lire ou le relire pour appréhender la direction que prend le monde...Ce n'est pas un livre réservé aux ados.

This at, the moment is my favorite book. I've never read a book that made me question reality, has this one has.

Tenía ganas de echarle mano al libro y me animé a leerlo en inglés (aprovechando que cursaba el curso de C1). Es cierto que en ocasiones se puede hacer un poco denso debido a la gran cantidad de adjetivos, pero la lectura se hace bastante amena (en mi opinión). No me resultó muy complicado de seguir, pero puede resultarte un poco frustrante si no dominas en un cierto grado el idioma, no lo recomendaría como lectura básica, sino intermedia-avanzada.Se trata una edición de tapa blanda pensada para estudiantes, ya que incluye un resumen de los principales personajes y de la trama en la parte posterior del libro, además de algunas preguntas sobre el mismo, la verdad que la edición está muy bien realizada, con un carácter académico. Por lo que si pretendes evaluarte o simplemente eres un apasionado de la lengua de Shakespeare, se trata de una lectura obligatoria.

Il più grande capolavoro della letteratura secondo me. Doveroso leggerlo per se stessi e per capire l’attualità