1984

Read Orwell's 1984. With a blend of love, struggle and war, the story is about the protagonist Winston Smith's voice against oppression culminating in his resentment as well as submission to oligarchy. Replete with literary fireworks this is political novel. The last few chapters of the novel remind me of Steve McQueen's role in the movie Papillon.

Three random lines from the novel

• If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones
• The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon
• Our society, those who have the best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest from seeing the world as it is