I LOVE reading books. I'm weird like that. I absolutely adore classics (yes stuff like Shakespeare and Pushkin, Tolstoy, Sir Walter Scott etc.) as well as fantasy. Absolutely adore it.
At the moment though I am reading a fantastic book by George Orwell called "1984". It's actually a really famous book. You know this is where Big Brother comes from. Yes it used to be in a book before it became a TV reality show.
Basically the story is about a society where people are like robots. They are not allowed to think outside certain ideas. They are constantly watched by TV screens (Yes just like Big Brother) and listened to by mics. As well as that there's the thing called the Thought Police which actually listens to your thoguhts and if they detect a single thought that's slightly more individual than the rest they can take people under arrest.
Really it's a fascinating book. You can really see the connection to the USSR. SO many things are similar to Communist Russia. Even the things shown on TV screens to the people remind me of what my Russian grandmother told me, from her times in the USSR. The propaganda movies of the poor, starving population of the USA and Europe. But there are many more things that are an exaggerated version of the situation in Communist Russia.
All in all it's a really great book. I'm really enjoying it and advise anyone who's interested in reading, or interested in history or societies to read this book. You'll probably really enjoy it.
At the moment though I am reading a fantastic book by George Orwell called "1984". It's actually a really famous book. You know this is where Big Brother comes from. Yes it used to be in a book before it became a TV reality show.
Basically the story is about a society where people are like robots. They are not allowed to think outside certain ideas. They are constantly watched by TV screens (Yes just like Big Brother) and listened to by mics. As well as that there's the thing called the Thought Police which actually listens to your thoguhts and if they detect a single thought that's slightly more individual than the rest they can take people under arrest.
Really it's a fascinating book. You can really see the connection to the USSR. SO many things are similar to Communist Russia. Even the things shown on TV screens to the people remind me of what my Russian grandmother told me, from her times in the USSR. The propaganda movies of the poor, starving population of the USA and Europe. But there are many more things that are an exaggerated version of the situation in Communist Russia.
All in all it's a really great book. I'm really enjoying it and advise anyone who's interested in reading, or interested in history or societies to read this book. You'll probably really enjoy it.
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