1984
1949 • 328 pages

Ratings3,804

Average rating4.2

15

This book suffers from what I like to call “being wordy”. As in it sometimes gets so convoluted that it throws me right out of the book and it's hard to get back into it.

It's not the worst thing I've ever read, but it's not the best. Still better then The Handmaid's Tale, another...flawed...dystopian novel.

I like it enough that I'll read it again, and I might have to because some of it just went right over my head. So I'll hold off on giving a “final” review.

But from just my first read through...it's good, if a bit dull and “wordy” at times.

August 12, 2015