Hui Liu Liu itibaren 52044 Sant'Angelo AR, İtalya
This book is not actually about the United States, despite the lore. It's about post WWII state socialism, more or less in Britain, but ambiguously global. It's a critique of technocracy- the rule of experts and sociological solutions, the erasure of the individual. While a critique, Orwell is not a booster for capitalism in this book, but a writer afraid of losing words and fearing generations of bad writers. Even though we throw around newspeak and others -speaks, Orwell's argument is that politics is about language. I had forgotten how much of the book is spent describing the mechanics of language and thought control. Torture scenes are apropo, as well. A timeless book about state power...
** spoiler alert ** Yes, Breaking Dawn did have many surprises here and there (Bella and Edward had a baby, yada yada yada, Bella became a vampire, yada yada yada, they survived the Volturi without bloodshed), but I was completely disappointed! It just wasn't what I had expected of Stephanie Meyer. Hopefully she still publishes Midnight Sun...