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Versions of both books have been free multiple times in the past and will probably be again in the future, most likely having to do with them being public domain.

1984 by George Orwell
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BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU

Newspeak, Doublethink, Big Brother, the Thought Police - the language of 1984 has passed into the English language as a symbol of the horrors of totalitarianism. George Orwell's story of Winston Smith's fight against the all-pervading Party has become a classic, not the least because of its intellectual coherence. First published in 1949, it retains as much relevance today as it had then.

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ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.
When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.

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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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Animal Farm & Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell on Kobo.

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  • jv on 04/10/2024 - 17:25

    1984

    I enjoy history books…

      • jv on 04/10/2024 - 17:46
        +3

        It is a history book…

        We should never forget what happened and learn from it…

        • Euthyphro on 07/10/2024 - 16:36

          and the history keeps repeating.

      • pharcyde on 04/10/2024 - 17:56
        +5

        Yet his damage remains.

      • Farticus on 04/10/2024 - 23:26
        +3

        Bit hard when we're paying $20 million a day in interest on his debt

        • EightImmortals on 05/10/2024 - 08:33
          +3

          At least you've got a reason to piss on his statue. :)

      • Murkymerv on 05/10/2024 - 09:19
        +2

        There's talk of a statue to honour "the dictator himself". I'd like to see protests about that , the silence is deafening.

      • Mad Max on 05/10/2024 - 15:46
        +2

        Dan's gone. It's time to move on.

        He should be in jail.

    • Sammyboy on 04/10/2024 - 17:48
      +6

      Wouldn't even say its history. Its a prediction to the future

      • jv on 04/10/2024 - 17:48
        -1

        Its a prediction to the future

        The book is set in the past…

        • Sammyboy on 04/10/2024 - 17:51
          +6

          But strangely prophetic to current day events

        • rodericb on 04/10/2024 - 18:27
          +1

          Well, it was set in the future when it was written.

          Coincidentally 1984 is when the movie Threads was released, whose events have not yet transpired forty years later but which still have a slither of a chance of coming true.

        • john676 on 04/10/2024 - 18:36
          +1

          Do you know what allegory is?

          • jv on 04/10/2024 - 18:44
            +15

            @john676: Yes, a family member has peanut allegory

        • cfuse on 05/10/2024 - 16:28

          Given that controlling history is a key concept in the novel doubt over when the story occurs is a feature rather than a bug.

      • trapper on 04/10/2024 - 18:51
        +7

        Its a prediction to the future

        1984 increasingly feels like a blueprint for today's reality in many parts of the West.

    • beltdrive on 04/10/2024 - 18:02
      +2

      Dan lives in your head rent free

      • pharcyde on 04/10/2024 - 18:06

        -Cooker with political Stockholm Syndrome

        • beltdrive on 04/10/2024 - 19:51

          I don’t even live in Victoria. Not my problem

        • Farticus on 04/10/2024 - 23:28
          +3

          Better to be a cooker than be cooked

      • Farticus on 04/10/2024 - 23:27
        -4

        Wow that's a good one. Duuuhhhhhh. I made a joke mum duuuhhhhh

      • Murkymerv on 05/10/2024 - 09:21

        That's what propaganda is !

    • Murkymerv on 05/10/2024 - 09:16

      It's reality now , thank you very much !

    • Ryk on 14/10/2024 - 15:23

      needs rebranding to 2024, or maybe next year's edition: 2025

  • michael128 on 04/10/2024 - 17:25

    High school text book, no way to read it again.

    • jv on 04/10/2024 - 17:26

      Did you graduate?

      • brendanm on 04/10/2024 - 18:05
        +15

        Judging by that sentence, no.

    • ihfree on 04/10/2024 - 18:42
      +8

      no way to read it again.

      This deal provides a way to read it again

    • Eeples on 04/10/2024 - 20:27

      Yer me too.

      I got marked down for suggesting it was a love story. Julia and Winston's.

    • cfuse on 05/10/2024 - 16:31

      I would have killed to study decent books in high school.

      I'm surprised the teen suicide rate didn't go up in my school because of the universally dire and pointless selections made.

      • freefall101 on 05/10/2024 - 16:52

        We're here to give you a solid set of skills to equip you for the modern world. Anyway, here's the writings of a guy who's been dead for over 400 years and wrote in a version of English you will never use.

        "Good, speak to th’ mariners. Fall to ’t yarely,or we run ourselves aground. Bestir, bestir!"

        The worst part for me in highschool was when we studied an English translation of The Outsider and we spent most of the class having to have 1940s French culture explained to us or what was meant by some of the poor translations. I guess that did equip me fairly well for my current job though, part of it includes training people overseas on how to use our systems, and all the documentation is trash.

    • wqt0806 on 04/10/2024 - 17:49
      +8

      This is not a banned book in China, nor the Animal Farm.

      It's often cited when satirizing the Soviet Union in the old days. and now used to satirize "mainstream media" brainwash

    • trapper on 04/10/2024 - 18:48
      +3

      Maga??

      • ihfree on 04/10/2024 - 19:05
        +5

        People with red hats and stale coffee beans.

        • trapper on 05/10/2024 - 16:57
          +1

          They aren't the ones we see trying to implement 1984 though lol

      • RTX9090Ti on 04/10/2024 - 19:11
        +3

        Make asinine great again!

      • Sammyboy on 04/10/2024 - 20:24
        +3

        Make Australia Great Again!

      • john676 on 04/10/2024 - 21:26

        You might try read the book?

      • cfuse on 05/10/2024 - 16:32

        My avocados gone astray.

    • fantombloo on 04/10/2024 - 19:40
      +1

      Real life plot twist: it's all actually an inside job.

    • jasonxc on 04/10/2024 - 21:32
      +4

      maga members

      Crazy how you nutters think your side is any better. Two sides of the same coin.

    • Murkymerv on 05/10/2024 - 09:24

      Well that's the reason people can't come together to build a better world , at each other's throats . A country that's divided will never be united , enjoy the other side of the uni party

    • BOGANOZOI on 05/10/2024 - 10:42

      nah….. bogans gotta read. oz think they live in a free world, but thats the beginning for 1984. btw 1984 is about uk, not ussr

    • smartProverble on 05/10/2024 - 11:47
      +4

      To be fair, australia is more CCP-ish than China or North Korea these days…

  • AircraftFreight on 04/10/2024 - 17:40
    +2

    Why can I feel the comment section is going to blow up..

  • SpainKing on 04/10/2024 - 17:40

    Can't believe this joker shot an elephant

  • M00Cow on 04/10/2024 - 17:41

    Is there any decent eink device available under $140 these days? they all seem to be over $200. Even AliExpress is selling 8yo second jand ones for over $100.

  • john676 on 04/10/2024 - 18:35
    +5

    DoublePlus Good.

    • hugh on 04/10/2024 - 19:01

      The dumbing down of english is happening as we speak - in a bigly way

      • john676 on 04/10/2024 - 19:05

        :/

        • beltdrive on 05/10/2024 - 10:16

          “Bigly” is a Trumpism

      • M00Cow on 05/10/2024 - 08:21

        Remitte ad usus Latinos

  • Shitforbrains on 04/10/2024 - 19:06
    +5

    This is literally 1984.

  • CommuterPolluter on 04/10/2024 - 19:16

    Animal Farm is OK. I wouldn’t call it a particularly good book in its own right. It’s dated to the Soviet Era. Haven’t read 1984 for a while though.

    • john676 on 04/10/2024 - 21:25

      It’s a book about Animals too

      • formulated on 05/10/2024 - 08:38

        Every book is about animals. We are animals.

        • john676 on 05/10/2024 - 12:06

          Two legs baaad, four legs better!

        • john676 on 06/10/2024 - 15:36

          We are Oceanians

    • Pinchy on 04/10/2024 - 22:30
      +2

      It’s a great book. Still relevant today. The ideas are portrayed in a straight forward way that anyone can get something from it.

      • BargainDude8 on 05/10/2024 - 14:23

        Animal Farm is playing out in UK politics right now.
        Some animals are clearly more equal than others.
        And some animals get their wive’s clothes paid for by their friend whose flat you stayed at during Covid. The flat you pretended was your home, family pictures and all, during a political broadcast.
        Makes our animal overlords Scomo and Albo look good.

  • otohadesu on 04/10/2024 - 19:32

    Cool always wanted to read 1984

    • M00Cow on 05/10/2024 - 08:22

      are you authorised?

  • RolandWaites on 04/10/2024 - 20:03

    Haven't read it but I think it's an exact, word-for-word prediction about what's happening in my state right now.

  • muzzakus on 04/10/2024 - 20:54

    Topical

  • john676 on 04/10/2024 - 21:27

    The real 1984 is always in the comments

  • KernelPanic on 04/10/2024 - 22:29
    +2

    I heard they were remaking this and calling it 2020 Victoria.

  • B3 on 04/10/2024 - 22:39

    Four legs good, two legs bad!

    • M00Cow on 05/10/2024 - 08:28

      That used to be my motto, but now I'm lazy and do it lying down.

  • Farticus on 04/10/2024 - 23:24
    +2

    Is this Albos memoirs?

    • KernelPanic on 05/10/2024 - 00:42
      +1

      Careful. You might be jailed for spreading misinformation, disinformation and malinformation.

  • carlitos on 04/10/2024 - 23:28
    +1

    All Australians who didn't read this book when it was widespread in schools should be reading this now.

    • EightImmortals on 05/10/2024 - 08:33
      +3

      No need, they can just look at the 'news'.

      • carlitos on 05/10/2024 - 12:32
        +1

        That's the problem.

  • harshbdmmaster718 on 05/10/2024 - 01:01

    I prefer my book. Human Farm releasing 2025.

    also why do you need to put animal in front of farm? what other kinds of farms were around in 1984??

    • beltdrive on 05/10/2024 - 06:41
      +4

      Believe it or not, there are farms that grow crops

    • M00Cow on 05/10/2024 - 08:29

      PharmaFarms like Tegrity

  • EightImmortals on 05/10/2024 - 08:33

    Some Starmers are more equal than others?

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