1984

A bit slow at times, but good overall. I enjoyed the false hope Orwell suggests, and then abruptly squashes into obliteration.
I never read this book in high school like I was assigned to do, but I believe reading it now as I am older, I understand it a lot better. I am left with a hopelessness that I don't think would have been there if I had read it as a kid.

In this imagined world, change and hope are useless. It is not possible to change the system. It will never change and will never be better, in the tradition sense of the word “better.”

Looking at our world, I often times feel this way. How do we change and get better against a huge, huge problem? I am but one person in this huge fight and don't even know what I can do to make things better...