Nineteen Eighty-Four! (possible spoilers)

Heineken Helen

catefrances wrote:

i tried twice and figured there were better books to read.

don't get me wrong... 10 times was a gross exaggeration

catefrances

Heineken Helen wrote:

don't get me wrong... 10 times was a gross exaggeration

aah the gift of the blarney.

Collin

Heineken Helen wrote:

Wow Collin... are ya serious? Is it a good read?

There are a few very interesting passages in it, for instance, the security measures they took against him were incredible. I'm not sure I'd recommend it, though. It can be tedious at times, especially if you have no real interest in the Czech or Czechoslovakian history. It will give you a good idea of what life was like for dissidents in the communist regime. But you have to remember it was perfectly possible to live a normal life in those regimes if you registered as a communist. This book focuses solely on Václav Havel and a few dissidents who worked with him. Also, there was only a very small percentage of dissidents.

Maybe you'd like to read A Higher Kind Of Loyalty by Liu Binyan, a Chinese journalist and political dissident. He tells his own story, it is written very beautifully and it's very touching and haunting.

Heineken Helen

Collin wrote:

There are a few very interesting passages in it, for instance, the security measures they took against him were incredible. I'm not sure I'd recommend it, though. It can be tedious at times, especially if you have no real interest in the Czech or Czechoslovakian history. It will give you a good idea of what life was like for dissidents in the communist regime. But you have to remember it was perfectly possible to live a normal life in those regimes if you registered as a communist. This book focuses solely on Václav Havel and a few dissidents who worked with him. Also, there was only a very small percentage of dissidents.

Maybe you'd like to read A Higher Kind Of Loyalty by Liu Binyan, a Chinese journalist and political dissident. He tells his own story, it is written very beautifully and it's very touching and haunting.

Thank you always good to get recommendations. I'll keep that one in mind. I'm reading this one at the mo:

http://www.amazon.com/Superclass-Global-Power-Elite-Making/dp/0374272107/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212572693&sr=1-1

Seems interesting so far... only started it this morning though.