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George Orwell’s flawed masterpiece finally receives a much-needed rectification, as Jake Chapman takes us on a bad trip into an atrocious alt-Eurasia—a nightmare utopia of 24/7 self-expression, mandatory wellbeing, yogic breathing and promiscuous empathy.
Yippy wonks in open-toed sandals have ejected the evil capitalist overlords, compassion and charity reign supreme, buckwheat salad and artisan cashew cheese are in plentiful supply, and everyone strives to live their best life, all the time.
Employed by the Ministry to rectify misfortunes issuing from a curious glitch in the system, Winston Smith’s creative urges are unexpectedly awoken and he is driven to express his deepest place, voice and hurt through the medium of poetry.
But what connects Winston’s furtive scribblings in My Big Book of Me to the unpleasantnesses emanating from the deep glitch? Is Julia really the perfect kooky carefree soulmate she seems to be? Can O’Brien be trusted? And when does the new season of Big Brother start…?
An all-you-can-eat quinoa buffet of wrongthink, Chapman’s twisted vision is a bracing reminder that dystopia is just wishful thinking, and that the worst can always get worster.
Yippy wonks in open-toed sandals have ejected the evil capitalist overlords, compassion and charity reign supreme, buckwheat salad and artisan cashew cheese are in plentiful supply, and everyone strives to live their best life, all the time.
Employed by the Ministry to rectify misfortunes issuing from a curious glitch in the system, Winston Smith’s creative urges are unexpectedly awoken and he is driven to express his deepest place, voice and hurt through the medium of poetry.
But what connects Winston’s furtive scribblings in My Big Book of Me to the unpleasantnesses emanating from the deep glitch? Is Julia really the perfect kooky carefree soulmate she seems to be? Can O’Brien be trusted? And when does the new season of Big Brother start…?
An all-you-can-eat quinoa buffet of wrongthink, Chapman’s twisted vision is a bracing reminder that dystopia is just wishful thinking, and that the worst can always get worster.
298 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 16, 2021
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October 31, 2023
I was actually really looking forward to reading about the system of control in the Jake Chapman's alt-Eurasia. What I got instead was George Orwell's 1984 with the every adjective swapped out for "organic", "compassionate", and "patchouli". It's a shitpost that goes on way too long and, for me, the literary equivalent of having caged rats gnaw my face off. This was legitimately hard to get through. The DK song "California Über Alles" is a deeper and more complex work about Bay-area fascism.
July 25, 2025
counterpart to Orwell’s 1984, and let’s just say it’s, uhm🥸 original
& i kinda get it . . . i think? but also N0o bc :
« If everything is true and nothing is true—only self-deception makes truth decisive… since, to tell the truth, one must first be deluded—because being enraptured by self-deception and being delirious for truth are one and the same thing! Thus to understand the word gobbledegook involves the use of gobbledegook… » (p. 54)
oR
« Much better when discontent devour dead membrane’s throat gurgling jism purge with bloody smear-chipped tooth-dent in screaming soft r*pe flesh, especially in June—legs spread, club-foot egg spoon race, rough armpit juice, dribble lick, stick, prick, flick, nick, dick, slick, caked muck mire mien, swollen fist fuck stuck fast, slow, palpitating dermis peeling away in acid bath, have much taste of own medicine, whether universe, with countless galaxy of muck, star and planet, has most best deeper meaning or not, but at very least, it clear that human who live on earth face task of obliterate planet. » (p. 292)
🗿/10, would NOT😛recommend
& i kinda get it . . . i think? but also N0o bc :
« If everything is true and nothing is true—only self-deception makes truth decisive… since, to tell the truth, one must first be deluded—because being enraptured by self-deception and being delirious for truth are one and the same thing! Thus to understand the word gobbledegook involves the use of gobbledegook… » (p. 54)
oR
« Much better when discontent devour dead membrane’s throat gurgling jism purge with bloody smear-chipped tooth-dent in screaming soft r*pe flesh, especially in June—legs spread, club-foot egg spoon race, rough armpit juice, dribble lick, stick, prick, flick, nick, dick, slick, caked muck mire mien, swollen fist fuck stuck fast, slow, palpitating dermis peeling away in acid bath, have much taste of own medicine, whether universe, with countless galaxy of muck, star and planet, has most best deeper meaning or not, but at very least, it clear that human who live on earth face task of obliterate planet. » (p. 292)
🗿/10, would NOT😛recommend
September 26, 2024
Read this book hoping to have a deep dive into what 1984 could also dissect. Was sadly greeted with flat characters and pretentious prose.
August 10, 2024
The greatest shot-for-shot remake since Haneke. 10/10.
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