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Jun 3, 2020
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SoCalCoug
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That's why you're more crotchety than me...
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1984 is a very good book to have your kids read (or yourself).
Ragnar Danneskjold
MySpace Influencer
6/3/20 5:03pm
I have read it a few times. Very dark, especially given where we're at these days.
HighHorse
6/3/20 5:06pm
Yeah. The ending is especially bad.
Ragnar Danneskjold
6/3/20 5:14pm
Ending is epic. Even when I am senile I will remember it.
happyhiker
6/3/20 7:51pm
Haha, I agree about Atlas Shrugged. By the end you feel you've been bludgeoned. But that Hank Rearden dude if for real
Hank Rearden
6/3/20 8:06pm
He's ok, I guess. But Ragnar is the real real deal.
Ragnar Danneskjold
6/3/20 8:09pm
Yet we all fall 2nd to that personality-less, automaton John Galt.
Hank Rearden
6/3/20 8:19pm
Who?
Ragnar Danneskjold
6/3/20 8:27pm
The book is a must read.
Backcountry
6/3/20 5:08pm
Dude there is some weird stuff in that book. Not too kid friendly.
dave
6/3/20 5:09pm
True. I think teens could handle it though.
Ragnar Danneskjold
6/3/20 5:12pm
Thats why kids should read it. That book will scare kids into fearing
Backcountry
6/3/20 5:16pm
Hopefully it will scare them into fearing totalitarianism, which is what Orwell
chilango
6/3/20 6:07pm
A very small, limited government is necessary
Backcountry
6/3/20 6:22pm
I actually read 1984 before the year 1984.
SoCalCoug
6/3/20 5:22pm
I read it so long before 1984, that it seemed like a distant future.
HighHorse
6/3/20 5:28pm
That's why you're more crotchety than me...
SoCalCoug
6/3/20 5:32pm
HighHorse is like a Buddhist monk compared to you.
Ragnar Danneskjold
6/3/20 5:35pm
HighHorse is a Buddhist monk. I studied with the masters in Tibet.
HighHorse
6/3/20 5:40pm
I read it in 1983, LOL.
cosmohio
6/3/20 6:44pm
Believe it or not, I actually typed up a 3 page short story on it that they
Misteak
6/3/20 7:09pm
Brave New World too.
displacedute
6/3/20 5:41pm
Ah yes. Soma. Forgot about that (due to heavy soma use)
TNT
6/3/20 5:51pm
‘Pneumatic’
MaroonCoug
6/3/20 6:06pm
RE: ‘Pneumatic’
displacedute
6/3/20 6:13pm
The album is good too
TNT
6/3/20 5:50pm
Plus good. Double plus good.
No touching
6/3/20 6:10pm
Hate that book. Just do.
Wyomingite
6/3/20 6:11pm
A sad confession. I read it for the first time this spring.
Hank Rearden
6/3/20 6:11pm
At the urging of my 23 yo son.
Hank Rearden
6/3/20 6:12pm
It loses a little of it's dramatic affect if read after the year of our Lord, 1985.
HighHorse
6/3/20 6:19pm
All I knew about 1984, in 1984, was that Apple used the book as inspiration for a commercial for the Macintosh.
Hank Rearden
6/3/20 8:23pm
AND:
Ragnar Danneskjold
6/3/20 8:29pm
Man's Search for Meaning too.
SpiffCoug
6/3/20 6:32pm
Try Zamyatin's We. It was Orwell's inspiration.
panguitch
6/3/20 6:36pm
I think we're getting closer to 1984's dystopia, but the last 20 years
displacedute
6/3/20 6:46pm
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