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Originally Posted by Frida Fantastic
(4) I agree that 1984 is a powerful book, but the act of reading it feels like work. Bludgeoning you over the head with its message, much.
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Yeah, this was my fundamental issue with the book - the bludgeoning. Almost everything else I liked including the dismal setting. However, I always felt the lecturing was so obvious that I wondered why the author bothered constructing a storyline at all.
Animal Farm was even worse.