Re: 1984: best ever

In the Year of the Earth Rat, the Great and Powerful 
johan.g.larson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 declared:
> 
> My pick is 1984. It was one of the top ten best-sellers of the
> twentieth century, addressed an important issue (the threat of
> communism), is often studied in formal and critical settings,


A weak, pedantic novel that redresses Orwell's essays as fiction 
using a plot that had already been done better by Zamiyatin and 
Huxley. It remains studied because even the slowest student can pick 
out the themes.

> and left
> an imprint on our language in words like "newspeak" and "Big Brother".

"Lost in Space" left an imprint on our language, but that doesn't 
make it a great TV show.

-- 
Sean O'Hara <http://diogenes-sinope.blogspot.com>
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they 
please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we 
risk congratulations.
   -Edmund Burke