i finally got around to reading it. it was excellent. i realize i’m probably about 55 years late with that observation. i probably read it in about 36 hours. if you don’t have any interrupts, it’s easy to get time to read. well worth reading if you’ve never read it. i could take the low hanging fruit and say how it applies to the u.s. today, yada, yada, yada, but i’m not. i would rather take this opportunity to bitch about the introduction written by some pompus jackass named ben pimlott(i assume it’s this professor). i couldn’t even finish it (it’s only 12 pages). why is there an introduction in the front of the book that explains the whole plot anyway? not that i’m a big enough sucker to fall for that one (fool me once shame on you, fool me…uh…can’t get fooled again). i mainly find it annoying that while the book itself is written in a very straight forward manner, that intro had more 20 cent words in the first couple of pages. it’s just ironic that a book including as a major device of separating the haves from the have-nots was a new language (newspeak, reduced english that removes any possibility of thought or creativity). the same thing happens today and probably has for forever. it’s just another way to segregate society. this could go on and on, but why bother. pretensious assholes will continue to use big, flashy words to impress their friends and look down their nose at people they think are shit.
the only introductions should be written by the author. see h.g. wells for a good example. and read “the island of dr. moreau” if you haven’t. excellent. i think i’m actually going to be reading his “modern utopia” next. supposedly, it was part of orwell’s inspiration for writing “1984″.
it’s good book. read it. what more do i really have to say. most words can be replaced with some form of fuck anyway.