1984 and Brave New World

Whats your opinion on it? What comparisons have you seen in the books? I think they were good, but I couldn't really get into it.

You couldn't get into either one?

1984: Dystopia
BNW : Utopia
I wouldn't want to live in either.

1984 = incredible.
BNW = mediocre, at best.

1984 will always be more relevant and higher ranked than BNW. 1984 was and is incredibly thought-provoking. As for BNW, the first chapter would've made a nice short story in a sci-fi mag, but other than that, it was just kind of stupid.

I never got really into 1984, and I started BNW, which seemed pretty cool, but didn't read it very long.

1984 would be perfect except that it has a few parts where it's just too damn boring. BNW is good for the ideas it presents,but the story itself kind of sucks.

The restriction of thought by the restriction of language and thus expression is fucking brilliant, and brings up questions like how our minds would work if we weren't taught a language, but were simply grown up in seclusion.

they were both ripped off of zamyatins "we."
orwell, however develops some amazing metaphors throughout 1984. i read bnw in high school but didnt think it was worth returning to.

I like to read Brave New World and mentally replace all instances of the word "Soma" with "4chan"

It ends up being an eerie description of my life

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Well now I'll certainly look at it differently.

only thing I liked about BNW is the savage quoting shakespeare

seems to me like the basic difference between the two is that BNW was trying to warn us about where society is headed (ie, Huxley was worried that increasing technocracy would lead to the end of freedom in the future) whereas 1984 tries to warn us about how society is today by means of a caricature of modern society (ie, Orwell wanted to show that the presently existing modes of governance had undone much of our freedoms, though things of course are not as bad as they were in the book).

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I shat brix