I've always had a book by my bed for the last few years. They've mainly consisted of bill bryson, random books bought just because I liked the cover, or biographies of soldiers, pilots, generals, etc.
It occurred to me just before Christmas, that there are one or two books which have always eluded my increasing pile of bedtime reading, one of which is Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. So when it came time for the annual pilgrimage to Waterstones a
week before Christmas, i was determined to get it. And get it I did.
week before Christmas, i was determined to get it. And get it I did.
I'm just over halfway through it now and it's quite a chilling tale of what the world could become like if governments turned from their current paranoid "nanny" state, to a more controlling "big brother" state, run on media spin and oppression.
If you haven't read it I heartily recommend it! Though maybe not so much if you have an abduction complex or a fear of alternate pasts...
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