“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”

Rating: 4 stars

I was adamantly sure I'd read this book, but decided to 'reread' it as it's on my bucket list challenge and it's not too long. About two-thirds of the way through I decided that I was wrong, and I definitely haven't picked it up, but it's pretty appropriate to have false memories of reading 1984.

I wouldn't say that I enjoyed this book, but it was definitely an interesting read. It's a dense read, complicated and threaded with its own dialect that you need to learn fast to keep up with the rest of the novel, but the world that Orwell saw is a fascinating one, and I absolutely see why this has a place in every 'must read' list. Orwell's dystopian world-building is incredible, and his view of the world and the possibility of the future pulled absolutely no punches. This book deserves all the praise it gets, and I think I'll be thinking of it for a long time.