I read "1984" by George Orwell

I do not feel eligible to comment on "1984": This book beat the pants off me.

"1984" is a novel written in 1984. By reversing the last two digits, George Orwell arived at the year when a nightmare world would be run by a totalitarian state. Influenced by Socialistic ideas, Orwell believed in Russian Evolution. However, when the Stalinist treatment of truth - that by controling people's minds the party controled reality - began to leak to the west, he became disillusioned and wrote "1984" as a denounciation of Socialism.

John Winston is the only one. The only one, who is non-existant. That's the first rule of Ingsog - doublethink. He is just the same way as 4 + 4 is five and just as well it may be 5 or 6, if the Party wishes so.

Although the story is literature, the idea - that by controling one's mind, the party controls the reality - seems plausible to me. For, if all the records of history were wiped out or ratified so that they mached the Party's policy, how can one now what is true? What party holds to be true, is true.

I thoroughly recommend this book to everyone. It feels like the better the book, the harder to write anything about it. Now I am on 'For whom the bell tolls" By E. Hemingway. Keep your fingers crossed.