Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 5 months agoWhat is the worst experience you've had reading a book?message-squaremessage-square122fedilinkarrow-up141arrow-down11
arrow-up140arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the worst experience you've had reading a book?Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 5 months agomessage-square122fedilink
minus-squareTheBigBrother@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·5 months agoWhen I realized there are a lot of dumb people out there, 1984 by George Orwell.
minus-squareMothra@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 months ago… username checks out I guess? 1984 was also my first painful read. A true Mindfuck. It’s a good story though, but I felt like I needed a blanket and kitty therapy for like a month after finishing reading it. Maybe I was too young
minus-squarethisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoHave you read Jack London’s The Iron Heel? It is really the prequel to 1984, even Orwell said as much. 1984 stays with you but The Iron Heel will haunt you.
When I realized there are a lot of dumb people out there, 1984 by George Orwell.
… username checks out I guess? 1984 was also my first painful read. A true Mindfuck. It’s a good story though, but I felt like I needed a blanket and kitty therapy for like a month after finishing reading it. Maybe I was too young
Have you read Jack London’s The Iron Heel?
It is really the prequel to 1984, even Orwell said as much. 1984 stays with you but The Iron Heel will haunt you.