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Finished on 15 June 2008.

While it’s certainly easy to see why this would be considered such an important book, I didn’t get much out of it. It was fairly uneven and quite repetitive, and at times it felt pedantic. It was a bit of a slog in parts, but the crushing, nihilistic ending made it seem worthwhile.

In some ways Nineteen Eighty-Four reminded me of Ayn Rand’s Anthem, but the latter was more focussed on collectivism while Orwell’s work seems more like a hopeless vision of the inevitable resting place of humanity when someone finally figures out how to bring the cycles of history to a halt.