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There are all kinds of reasons a book might be difficult to read - length, sophistication of language, difficulty or complexity of subject or treatment, emotional power, literary style. Some books are difficult reads now for no reason other than having been written at an earlier point in linguistic or cultural history, so that their language and references are obscure now though they were not to contemporary readers. Dismissing something just because it's popular or well known, or one can't be bothered to read it, is unwarranted. Orwell, btw, also had particular ideas on style and the use of language, based on his experiences of politics, journalism, publishers' censorship, and life in general, and these influenced 1984, which appeared in the final years of his life. One is free not to like it, or not to read it, of course, but that does not make it a poor, poorly written, or unimportant work.