I am curious about which members may have read 1984, both in school like I did, and afterwards, like my best friend Kimberly just did.

She and Noel referred me to a similar book called Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler. Kimberly bought it for me at Christmas and I am reading it now.

I guess the genre is completed with Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451, neither of which I have read. They would be called dystopian literature today, but at the time they were written, it was feared they could actually come to pass in the U.S. They were mostly modeled on the Cold War /Soviet system of totalitarianism.

Maybe in some ways they have come to pass here, in the intervening years.

As with all books, my interest in others who read them is having new people with whom to converse about them. :-)