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lauren is 21% done

i know everyone says this about this book but the concept of newspeak is really really interesting!! when you consider how language imperialism and standardisation impacts and trickles down into the ways in which we think/act it seems like such an effective propaganda tool towards controlling the thoughts of a people

— Feb 24, 2026 01:57PM

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lauren is 67% done

OHMYGOD?!??????? i am in shock.. what even is going on….

— Feb 27, 2026 11:36AM

lauren is 31% done

anyway end of section 1!! who is the girl from the fiction department.. winston is getting radicalised but what happens next.. all the questions..

— Feb 25, 2026 06:33PM

lauren is 25% done

just popping in to say that the fact that 1984 is set in london is so funny to me like. they talk about st pancras station and i lived next to it for abit LOL its so jnteresting. its also so curious to me that in both 1984 and fahrenheit 451 they talk about burning of books as a method of keeping the population under their thumb.

— Feb 25, 2026 06:29PM

lauren is 11% done

actually i started this book a few days ago trying to get over the vermin-induced reading slump that i forsaw coming (because how on earth do you top that). so far i am liking the world-building!! definitely feels alot more real than fake haha very relevant in our modern day.

— Feb 22, 2026 01:02AM