One of my favorite books is George Orwelle's 1984. It's all about control, and being watched by those in power. Has anyone else read this story?

that one is a classic...didn't know you were into high literature, Annie
you like Shakespeare, too?

Hey annie !! I read Nineteen Eighty Four in 1984. I was a junior in high school at the time. It was a fascinating book. I thought it was neat to compare Orwell's imagination to what was really going on in 1984 (We had to do a paper on it).

1984 and Brave New World are two great reads.

I read it years ago - then re-read it recently. It's one of those books that you get more out of on a second reading, like Animal Farm which I got so much more from after studying some Russian history - the kids at work do it for GCSE English - I wish I had, it would have been so much more fun than Jane Eyre.

I didn't like Brave New World at all - I read that recently too - should have read it at uni, but skipped that lecture. 1984 appeals to me much more because it seems so much more plausible and we're heading in that direction (just not on Orwell's original schedule) with things like CCTV and media manipulation (I read a book a while back about how the media was manipulated into provoking a mass demand for strikes against Iraq at the start of the Gulf War). I'm fascinated by the idea of totalitarianism anyhow - well just wondering what it would be like to live under such a regime - so you can imagine that I liked reading it.