A while back, I stumbled across a social media post making a claim of the books most often cited that were never actually read by those citing them. George Orwell’s 1984 was at the top of the subjective list. I admittedly had not read 1984, so I figured it was as good a time as ever to remedy that. Written in the late 40s, 1984 is Orwell’s take on totalitarianism and where it would lead. Written in the infancy of the modern totalitarian (Hitler, Lenin, etc), it is a more fleshed-out extension of Animal Farm. Or, it is one long … Continue reading Book Nook: 1984, by George Orwell