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Originally Posted by Brianna
Read Animal Farm (loved) read BNW (loved) and Atlas Shrugged (despised) but never 1984. Do the above reads exempt me from reading 1984?
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Read it. Read it for the story at least. It will round out the cultural allusions you've heard for years.
And bear in mind that many of the ridiculous shortages suffered by the populace were fact at the time Orwell wrote it. To an extent we still are subject to baffling shortages. As Bill Bryson noted in Notes From A Small Island - try getting bread from a British supermarket on a Saturday afternoon! Or in my experience, any kind of fruit at all after 14.00 on Sundays.
Not to hijack the thread, but if you haven't read Notes then I suggest you do - especially those of you with a sympathy for this sceptered isle. It's very affectionate rather than warts n all, but it made me laugh so hard I disturbed a whole carriage on the Circle & District line one drowsy weekday afternoon.