Famous First Line:
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
DOB: June 25th, 190.
DOD: January 21st, 1950
About: He has won the Prometheus Hall of Fame
Award, Retro Hugo Award for Best Novella. He was and English Novelist, essayist,
journalist and a critic.
The book 1984 is primarily focused around the 3
superpowers: Eurasia, Eastasia, and Oceania. It’s also about the life that Winston
Smith, 39 year old employee at the Ministry of Truth, London, in Oceania.
Oceania is ruled by The Party. The Party in Oceania rations food, issues
clothing, and selects social activities. Oceania is ruled over by war and
hatred.
I personally would not read this book, it just
does not seem interesting to me. Or fit my style of reading. I don’t like
reading things about superpowers. But I do like reading about people’s lives,
but this type of life style doesn’t suit me. I don’t like reading about things overruling
other things.
Famous Last Line:
“Tomorrow, I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is
another day.”
Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
June 10th, 1936
DOB: November 8th, 1900
DOD: August 16th, 1949
About: American author and a journalist, she
won the Pulitzer for Fiction in 1937.
This book is about a girl name Scarlet O’Hara.
She was not very beautiful so not very many men were interested in her. She was
spoiled and had a bad temper. Her and her sisters lived on a North Georgian
plantation called Tarah. She wants to steal the man she loves, Ashley, from her
best friend, Melanie. She got rejected by Ashley. Civil war moves its way to
Tarah, she marries a man named Charles. He goes to war. She moves.
I personally would read this book. It sounds
very interesting, I would like to know how she manages to steal the men from
her family member, and how she gets away with it and doesn’t feel guilt. I want
to see how she manages to survive during the civil war and many other things I
would like to read about.
1984 is a really creepy book that makes you feel like " Big Brother" is watching you. If you haven't read this book yet I suggest you keep it that way.
ReplyDelete1984 sounds cool to me; I like the idea of superpowers and I think it'd be entertaining to see how people handle them especially in a place "ruled by war and hatred." Gone with the wind on the other hand sounds like a lot of boy drama. I can't say I'm interested although I've heard very good things about the book.
ReplyDeleteI read 1984 as an English requirement, and it was okay. I think that if i were to read it again I might like it a little better. Someday I'll read Gone With The Wind, but the size of it is pretty daunting.
ReplyDeleteGone With the Wind is one of my favorite books and that last line is one of literature's most famous for sure.
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