Celebrate Your Freedom to Read: Banned books on Google

Re:Celebrate Your Freedom to Read: Banned books on Google by AlecM on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @02:12AM (#1147481)

I remember reading 1984 during my lunch breaks in high school and when I turned that final page, I was a changed person. It's unfathomable to me that some young adults today, in the same country, are purposely sheltered by their community and government from having that same experience.

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Re:Celebrate Your Freedom to Read: Banned books on Google by nazgulnarsil on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @03:26AM (#1147572)

I find it depressing that even among people who read it and really like it few make enough of the connection to go on and study propaganda techniques in real life (and by extension logical fallacies and how they are used against people).

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Re:Celebrate Your Freedom to Read: Banned books on Google by ThomPete on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @04:30AM (#1147629)

1984 changed everything for me too.

Have you ever read We by Yevgeny Zamyatin? Talk about dystopia should come with a glass of prozac.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_%28novel%29

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Re:Celebrate Your Freedom to Read: Banned books on Google by eam on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @02:37AM (#1147517)

1984 was perhaps the best book I read while in high school.

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Re:Celebrate Your Freedom to Read: Banned books on Google by ErrantX on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @03:25AM (#1147571)

The important thing about 1984 is that it's message is even more relevant today.

We need the next generation to read it so they remember not to go there.

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