Why do people like this again?
It can be used to attack political ideologies like other dystopian novels
Because they read it in 7th grade
>>7414275
Despite the lack of subtlety at times, Orwell tries to make a point and delivers it in an unoriginal -he admitted Zamiatin's We was his main reference- yet convincing and fresh fashion. Even if you don't share his political views, it's still an interesting reading when you're young. It's overrated, and people still talk about it because it's a high school tier reading, but it doesn't need a superb style or flourish prose in order to be an interesting novel. Besides, plebs thinking they're "literate" for reading it are hilarious.
>>7414306
So does /lit/ think it's good or nah
>>7414323
It depends. Usually it gets a lot of backslash, yet it was on some Top 100 books list we made, for instance. Also, /lit/ is not just a single person with an univocal opinion.
Idk. A Brave New World is 10x more accurate.
>>7414354
Orwell wasn't trying to write a prediction, so why would accuracy matter?
>>7414347
> yet it was on some Top 100 books list we made
So is Harry Potter, really. That doesn't mean much.
so cliché and edgy
the problem with this book is that it's meant to be subversive,to be some kind of counter-power but the fact that it has become so popular and used widely to make a point has totally ruined the thing
>>7414306
what books make you "literate"
>>7415039
It's not about what makes you literate; it's that some people think they are indeed literate just bacause they read a couple of books.
>>7414306
Perfectly said.
>>7414275
Because Orwell never tried to force an ideology down your throat like every other political novel. It is a book about evil in power.
>>7414275
i liked it because of the "woah dudebro" moment of realizing that truth is determined by opportunity
>people still getting upset that other people like other stuff
lmao
