Customer Reviews
Deviates corrected for their own good - By: B. Chandler, 20 Apr 2006 
In a society that has eliminated many imbalances, surplus goods, & even class struggle, there are bound to be deviates; Winston Smith is one of those. He starts out, due to his inability to doublethink, with thoughtcrime. This is in a society that believes a thought is as real as the deed. Eventuallly he graduates through a series of misdemeanors to illicit sex & even plans to overthrow the very government that took him in as an orphan.
If he gets caught, he will be sent to the "Ministry of Love" where they have a record of 100% cures for this sort of insanity. They will even forgive his past indiscretions.
Be sure to watch the three different movies made from this book:
1984 (1954) Peter Cushing is Winston Smith
1984 (1956) Edmond O'Brien is Winston Smith
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) John Hurt is Winston smith
A classic - By: A. Pitts, 01 Jan 2004 
This is the story of Winston Smith & his rebellion against "Big Brother". By day he's a model citizen, aware that he's being watched. But then he begins to meet a woman, rents a room in the back of a shop, certain he can get more out of life than what the Party tells him to.
This is a compelling book, & worth reading if only to discover where the terms "Big Brother" & "Room 101" come from.
