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Re:The book that inspired the birth of reddit by jere on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @03:37PM (#5948468)
>I get the GP's point, that 1984 is the polemic pamphlet for anti-authoritarians...

Hmmm, I thought the point was you're wasting time on a book a) you've already read and b) everyone else you know has already read. Regardless of how good the book is, you're unlikely to gain any unique insight.

Re:The book that inspired the birth of reddit by PavlovsCat on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @11:24PM (#5950583)
I read it first when I was in my late teens. I read it again after the war on terror (tm) had started... let's just say it was the difference between reading a book about sex as a virgin and as a man. Books of that caliber, that are that short, are rare enough IMHO, and reading them every decade can't hurt? Anyway, you can't know if you get something new out of it unless you tried it at least once ;)
Re:The book that inspired the birth of reddit by jlarocco on Thursday June 27, 2013 @01:26AM (#5950843)
Meh. Some books are just fun to read.