Everyone always shits on me when I said I didn't enjoy the book. I could barely get through the ending and my brain has been wiped of it, clean and smooth.
I mean the ending is good in the sense that it twists the entire narrative on it's head: The protagonist thought he was being a rebel but surprise "Big Brother is Watching You" was always correct.
But Asmiov's review/re-read of the book essay points out how absurd that is when you actually think about it.
It's not a great book to be honest. Everything else aside and taken purely on its literary merits, the world building is sub par with various gaping plot holes that are innefectively papered over by handwaving away how 'history has been rewritten.' The protagonist is just so dull and lifeless, even after his bid for freedom and rebellion that in the later chapters you're practically egging his torturers on. The other characters somehow manage to be even more underdeveloped and two dimensional and frankly the only cleaver thing it does is the grand reveal at the end. Not worth slogging through the rest of the book for the last half chapter when there are far better books out there in the dystopian sci fi category.
Everyone always shits on me when I said I didn't enjoy the book. I could barely get through the ending and my brain has been wiped of it, clean and smooth.
God i'm glad there's a redemption arch.
I mean the ending is good in the sense that it twists the entire narrative on it's head: The protagonist thought he was being a rebel but surprise "Big Brother is Watching You" was always correct.
But Asmiov's review/re-read of the book essay points out how absurd that is when you actually think about it.
Asimov did a review??
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It's not a great book to be honest. Everything else aside and taken purely on its literary merits, the world building is sub par with various gaping plot holes that are innefectively papered over by handwaving away how 'history has been rewritten.' The protagonist is just so dull and lifeless, even after his bid for freedom and rebellion that in the later chapters you're practically egging his torturers on. The other characters somehow manage to be even more underdeveloped and two dimensional and frankly the only cleaver thing it does is the grand reveal at the end. Not worth slogging through the rest of the book for the last half chapter when there are far better books out there in the dystopian sci fi category.
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You have always been Correct