5/30/2023 0 Comments 1984 graphic novel![]() ![]() I am dismayed that this was assigned in 7th grade at public school. ![]() Easily the most violent book I've ever read, and more violence and nudity than the vast majority of rated R films. There are lessons here but the repeated sexual content (going so far as descriptions of the skin of a nude person, intense pleasure during and after lovemaking), habitual drinking of an alcoholic, and the long graphic depictions of unspeakably cruel tortures and starvations, are far too much for even teenage readers. I found the book stressful to read, depresssing, and far darker than anything else I've ever read. In the process of beating its protagonists into submission, it likewise treats the reader similarly. I love how the book begins, and it is clearly a forefather of a lot of great sci-fi and dystopian tales. ![]()
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