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I feel a bit wrong

that I've seen V for Vendetta (which I've heard is a direct take on 1984)
and I have neither read nor seen 1984 :(

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Zumf Ham banjo, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 13:29, archived)

1984 is my favourite book

its amazing

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op op op op op I stink therfore I spam, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 13:30, archived)

*ahem*

The book is called Nineteen Eighty-Four. It's the film that's called 1984

/pedant blog

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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 13:32, archived)

you are right of course

i cant spell eighty very well thats all

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op op op op op I stink therfore I spam, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 13:34, archived)

hehehe.

I had to check I'd got everything correct there... wouldn't want to be hoist by a pedantic petard...

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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 13:35, archived)

It is absolutely imperative that you read 1984, and also Huxley's Brave New World.

As if you combine the two you have the Western world as it is today.

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Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 13:31, archived)

its almost terrifying...

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op op op op op I stink therfore I spam, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 13:31, archived)

By contrast, if you synthesise Brave New World and 2001...

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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 13:34, archived)

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Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 13:35, archived)

Entirely this.

Who's idea was that? Did no one think to reply "No, seriously - WHAT?"

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Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 13:37, archived)

I'm sure the guys/girls at the advert agency were giggling like fools when the mayor's office gave it the go ahead

Also I love how there are nearly as many copies of Nineteen Eighty-Four for sale in non-fiction as there are in fiction on eBay.

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Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 13:39, archived)

Aye, I may do this.

Reading Star Maker and The Forever War right now.

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Zumf Ham banjo, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 13:44, archived)

this

and watch Brazil

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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 14:05, archived)

I'm more disturbed that you've 'seen V for Vendetta'

but possibly haven't read the book. The film's a shallow bastardisation, which turns a deeply ambiguous story about anarchism into some kind of happy-clappy neocon fantasy about painless regime change.

Oh, and Orwell's book is an arguably inferior rip-off of Zamayatin's 'We'.

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George Spiggott, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 13:54, archived)

Controversial.

I don't think that We matches up to Nineteen Eighty-Four. Mind you, it's about 5 years since I read the former, and about 17 since I read the latter, so I could be mistaken...

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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 14:10, archived)