Congrats! All these posts are great for affirming my purchasing decisions! lol.
1984 is a great book, but more relevant to the cold war era, I find. Today I find A Brave New World far more poignant as far as dystopian visions go. If you haven't read it I highly recommend it. Here's a nice comic summing up the difference between Orwell and Huxley's visions:
http://tripontheinter.net/wp-content...er_student.png
edit:.. ugh just realised how old this thread is! hahah