No. Not in terms of quality. It’s on terms of horrors described in this book. 2984 is the most scary book I ever had read. It’s much more scarier than Lovecraftian horrors because the evil showed in this book is real. Look at North Korea. Look at Iran. Look at what Russia is transforming. Sometimes, humans could be real monsters. And Big Brother is the most terrifying monster I had encountered in literature.
I can’t read this book because I know how it ended. I believe that such hopeless worlds like in 1984 should be destroyed. I believe in God and it would be heartwarming if Judgement Day would happen in 1984 world. I believe that Jesus will come to such rotten world and finally send evil people to burn in hell.
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Every time I come to this sub lately I feel like I’m having a stroke
Read Brave New World and report back.
Reminder that the final chapter is set in the future and implies the party eventually collapsed
The (actual, often excluded) last chapter helps. Empires fall. Even the most horrifyingly brutal and competent totalitarian regimes will eventually be a footnote in someone else’s history books. Ingsoc and the ministries referred to in a clinical, very past tense fashion is a needed palette cleanser after all that brutality…
Now I need to read 2984, the sequel set 1000 years in the future.
You should read *We* by Yevgeny Zamatin. Orwell said it influenced *1984* but I think you’ll find some of the more overt Christian imagery in the book to be interesting.
Also, you’re missing out by not reading the ending.
Ah good ole 1984, the critically acclaimed prequel to 2984