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Listening Length | 12 hours and 19 minutes |
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Author | George Orwell |
Narrator | Andrew Wincott |
Whispersync for Voice | Ready |
Audible.com.au Release Date | 05 November 2015 |
Publisher | Canongate Books Ltd |
Program Type | Audiobook |
Version | Unabridged |
Language | English |
ASIN | B016E6FTR2 |
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Reviewed in Australia on 15 April 2019
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I have always seen this book around forums or sites in general when looking for a book to read and the "top 100 books to read in your lifetime" etc. I sadly could not get into the book, it wasn't for the writing or how it was written it was just a bit over the top and went straight over my head at some points. Something I'd be happy to skip. I thought the concept was interesting but it took me a long time to read because I wasn't really into the book as I'd like to.
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Reviewed in Australia on 26 February 2020
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This book will leave you with an unnecessary sense of anxiety at it's end, it is that well written. It bears similar cases of surveillance of the modern age which probably makes it the single most significant piece of fictional literature for us to consider as we delve further into the information age, where our information is everywhere and our personal lives are increasingly more revealed unwillingly. Unfortunately, at the time of writing this review, the formatting of the e-Book from Amazon is pretty abysmal. Incorrect paragraphing, and typo errors plague the e-book.
Reviewed in Australia on 4 May 2017
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I read this book over thirty years ago and have had many an Orwellian moment since. The increasing use of CCTV around the globe, revelations about intelligence agencies hacking smart TV's and computer webcams plus the retention and monitoring of citizens Meta Data ( justified in Government 'Newspeak' " as keeping us safe") and the ongoing and never ending conflicts around the world just show how insightful Orwell was. Reading this story again has underlined to me how relevant Orwell's novel still is today.
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Reviewed in Australia on 13 August 2019
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It made feel very angry to realize that much of what was written in book 50 yesrs ago, is the current reality in many societies. Imagination is very powerful, we should use to imagine a better world.
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Reviewed in Australia on 19 April 2019
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This book really makes you think. Winston is a complex and intriguing character. Orwell builds a fascinating sense of society.
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Reviewed in Australia on 19 January 2016
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I have never read 1984 before now! What a bold, insightful, scary view of what could be. And George wrote this back in the 40's! If only he could see how many aspects of the big brother disease has infiltrated our world. He would say "it was a warning, not an instruction manual" (I pinched that line from a FB post I saw a few weeks ago that prompted me to read this). Now will read Animal Farm. XxJ
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Reviewed in Australia on 4 September 2018
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Loved the book. Orwell built the scene magnificently and allowed the reader to be engulfed in the world of Oceania and all that entails. The conclusion is a reminder to people everywhere of the folly of blind faith in authority. Beautiful read. You keep forgetting the book being published in 1949.
Reviewed in Australia on 11 October 2020
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Riddled with errors and advertisements which I don't appreciate.
Want to read the book but not with adverts in it... Not able to return or exchange this version this now, even though I haven't read more than 5% of it, disappointing.
Want to read the book but not with adverts in it... Not able to return or exchange this version this now, even though I haven't read more than 5% of it, disappointing.
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Truth Seeker
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Message To Young Readers Who Have Been Assigned This Book
Reviewed in the United States on 17 June 2018Verified Purchase
This is one of the first books I have read more than once. I first read "1984" in 1985 and now for the second time in 2018. The book has remained the same, but both the world and I have not. I cannot begin to convey how genuinely frightening this book is. I am a lover of popular science fiction and am astounded by Orwell's ability to be more compelling, entertaining and engrossing than authors with the benefit of light sabers, phasers and teleportation.
To every young person who has been assigned this book, know that you are reading a literary work of art. Many of you will understand and appreciate it, but if you love literature, please make a mental note to read this again when you are older. Youth brings with it eternal hope, boundless optimism and of course, hormones, so you will find yourself rebelling against the pessimism of the book itself - you will effectively be Winston raging against the machine, hoping, searching, questing for a way out. In short, you will cheat.
But when you get older, have a family, lose loved ones and see some of your dreams unfulfilled - when you witness entire nations and races of peoples born, live and die in brutal squalor - when you reflect on the technological advances made over the decades and gaze, with mouth agape, at how a people can be less advanced, less informed and less enlightened, not despite these innovations, but BECAUSE of them, then you will read 1984 as it was meant to be read...not as a dark, dystopian world you enter when you open the book, but a beautifully brutal warning that, even as you read it, is prophetically coming true around you.
To every young person who has been assigned this book, know that you are reading a literary work of art. Many of you will understand and appreciate it, but if you love literature, please make a mental note to read this again when you are older. Youth brings with it eternal hope, boundless optimism and of course, hormones, so you will find yourself rebelling against the pessimism of the book itself - you will effectively be Winston raging against the machine, hoping, searching, questing for a way out. In short, you will cheat.
But when you get older, have a family, lose loved ones and see some of your dreams unfulfilled - when you witness entire nations and races of peoples born, live and die in brutal squalor - when you reflect on the technological advances made over the decades and gaze, with mouth agape, at how a people can be less advanced, less informed and less enlightened, not despite these innovations, but BECAUSE of them, then you will read 1984 as it was meant to be read...not as a dark, dystopian world you enter when you open the book, but a beautifully brutal warning that, even as you read it, is prophetically coming true around you.
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Rakesh Agrawal
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beware, He (not he)! is watching us!
Reviewed in India on 8 September 2018Verified Purchase
A Bihari angarez, Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his penname, George Orwell, wrote this book in 1949, supposedly A satirical description of A totalitarian state. Little did he realize that it will describe India, A so-called democratic state of 2018, so vividly!
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Megha
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Reviewed in India on 7 June 2018Verified Purchase
1984 by George Orwell is no doubt, a mind blowing and must read book.
But I'll be rating specifically with regard to the Rupa Classics edition of this book which i bought.
On many pages, text printed on the other side is visible. The initial pages seems to come out of the binding. The dimensions of the book are quite small. Its quality is not impressive.
I really wish if I would have bought from some other publisher of this book.
But I'll be rating specifically with regard to the Rupa Classics edition of this book which i bought.
On many pages, text printed on the other side is visible. The initial pages seems to come out of the binding. The dimensions of the book are quite small. Its quality is not impressive.
I really wish if I would have bought from some other publisher of this book.

2.0 out of 5 stars
Not content with the copy
Reviewed in India on 7 June 2018
1984 by George Orwell is no doubt, a mind blowing and must read book.Reviewed in India on 7 June 2018
But I'll be rating specifically with regard to the Rupa Classics edition of this book which i bought.
On many pages, text printed on the other side is visible. The initial pages seems to come out of the binding. The dimensions of the book are quite small. Its quality is not impressive.
I really wish if I would have bought from some other publisher of this book.
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Ian T
5.0 out of 5 stars
Soul crushing
Reviewed in Canada on 9 April 2018Verified Purchase
This is such a powerful book. Written in the 1944, Orwell perfectly describes the world that is to come. We may be a few decades late from 1984, but his words are becoming reality, and it’s scary.
Did you know, in Canada, there are now laws governing compelled speech, and it’s possible for you to go to prison for using the wrong words?? Well, the same is true in Orwell’s 1984.
If you read this book, you will look at our world differently. Maybe it will inspire you to create change, or maybe it will pummel you into submission just like so many people in Orwell’s novel.
Did you know, in Canada, there are now laws governing compelled speech, and it’s possible for you to go to prison for using the wrong words?? Well, the same is true in Orwell’s 1984.
If you read this book, you will look at our world differently. Maybe it will inspire you to create change, or maybe it will pummel you into submission just like so many people in Orwell’s novel.
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Ursula
1.0 out of 5 stars
Il libro é in inglese
Reviewed in Italy on 25 March 2020Verified Purchase
Il libro é in inglese. Avreste dovuto specificarlo

1.0 out of 5 stars
Il libro é in inglese
Reviewed in Italy on 25 March 2020
Il libro é in inglese. Avreste dovuto specificarlo
Reviewed in Italy on 25 March 2020
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