I've read 1984 three, possibly four times and I had to read it through caps in my fingers! 😱 Now all I have to do is wince! Thanks so much for putting this up, but it's a pity it's now sign of the times! 🇬🇧😡
I remember having to read it in high school but remember almost nothing compared to listening to it now. Just the phrase about about a boot eternally smashing a face.
I'm 41 and listening to it for the first time due to the political climate. I keep hearing people talk about it and refer to it. I figure it's time to listen to it. It's only 10 hours. I can do that in a day or two
he who controls the party controls the truth "you do not remember trump getting convicted" ...they'll do everything the communists do but then say "we're not communists" it always ends this way, Mao,Stalin,Pol Pot,Ferdinan Marcos,xi jinping,putin..people keep letting these weirdos lie right to their faces
Some people read this book and thought "If we're not careful, this could happen." Other people read it and thought "If we're careful, this could work."
Didn't think I wanted to listen to this but it autoplayed while I was washing dishes and now I'm hooked! Excellent narration, that's what sold me on continuing. Love this channel and it's top tier narrators!
@@Digglerdirk79-l4y They got hooked on it while doing dishes, which means they heard part of it and wanted to hear more. So probably didn't take 10 hrs on dishes.
Interesting take but ultimately flawed. Without the shepard the sheep would be dead long ago. There are much more than wolves trying to eat sheep. There are even carnivorous plants known to entangle and starve sheep to death! (really cool stuff) Other creatures come and feast on the sheep and the bugs eat the carcass so that all the juices and everything break down into the root system feeding the plant. I mean sheep are dumb enough to walk off a cliff so like it's a nice edgy statement but when you put facts to reality, it holds no water.
Not really. Sheep are stupid as hell. Literally the dumbest animal. If the wolf doesn't kill the sheep and if the shepherd doesn't kill the sheep, there are a dozen other things out to kill it. Lol Even carnivorous plant will catch the sheep and eat them. That and the sheep will walk off a cliffs or all kinds of other dumb shit. Nice edgy saying but in reality literally everything is out to kill the sheep, not just the wolf. If it weren't for the shepherd the sheep would be dead long ago.
You know the analogy falls a part because sheep are generally treated well and not used for food because sheep make wool. Cows and pigs yield way more meat. Generally they live better and longer lives than they would in the wild... Which is due to being in captivity for so long that their hair never stops growing. They are completely dependent on the farmer to shear them. So they cannot live in the wild anymore, not the sheep you see on farms. The sheep literally have no choice but to live on a farm in modern society. It is within their DNA to be captives.
Mr. Orwell didn't write this book. .. ... It was written long before. This freemason was just the luciferian they chose to put the name in the plans for the future. Please wake up. Read about freemasons as that's who is calling all the shots today. Please don't buy this Orwell lie
@@KingJamesDisciple my comment was removed.. like I said. Orwell.. didn't write 84. It was written in the 1700's and was delayed publishing untill the "right" time. Don't be fools
@@hokuponopono4415 I can't find any proof that what you are saying is correct. Perhaps you should write your own theory. I'd love to read/listen to it.
@@KingJamesDisciple my learning this was years ago. I've been on this train for fifty years. Now if I think back it's possible it was in a video about Shakespeare. Which one I can remember. I will go in the look out for you. I do believe you keep digging into the lies of the masons .. you'll definitely come across that lie as well. I'll leave a video I watched the other night that I was impressed by. Let me know what you think if you choose to watch it. In the meantime I would like to say, perhaps I'm wrong or guessed, but as a rule, I don't repeat anything unless I've been absolutely convinced if it's validity. I know none of us know who anyone is. I will say I'm no dummy. I'm just not about having any channels or books. Even tho it's been asked of me a hundred times. I spent forty years in new age healings and teaching all that evil garbage. New age at my age then was the rage. I was good at it and it was indeed the largest bad move I ever made. To my defense, my parents were Catholic and I was a hippie who wanted far far away from that. So childhood for me like almost everyone else, lies about it all were the truths we were taught. I'll look around for that cool Shakespeare video I'm thinking of. Even if it's not in that one, if I find it... It's a great video. Aloha.. fingers tired... It's late brah! God Be With You! 🤺❤️🔥🙏
Everyone in America needs to listen to this novel, regardless of your party preference. The USA is falling into this nearly daily and if you don't see that I feel bad for you, our country was founded on freedom and needs to be fixed before it's too late. For the record the date is 8/25/24
It was never founded on freedom.. It was founded on A massacre of millions of indigenous people that were murdered... Four men that were drug addict alcoholics, and possibly pe#os also. All founded on lies and deceit Wake up America. What Goes around comes around. Hallelujah
No thank you ill be going to find that one next... absolutely scary to think about as we're no longer inching to this we're running and diving for it in the USA
Simply amazing. I thought I would hate this book. I find myself stunned in awe of what a well written and well read book and audio book this is. Thank you for sharing, Arthur Lane and friends.
I literally had to ditch a youtube account recently cause it was being filtered and made using youtube next to impossible, and made my phone battery drain super fast
The world is becoming a combination of 1984 and Idiocracy. Very frightening, people just tell me I have a weird perspective of the world but I see it more everyday 😢
Not 1984, Brave New World. Read that one, it's way more interesting and relevant than 1984. Orwell - what we fear will control us. Huxley - what we love will control us.
@@michaelfraser5723 I mean, not really though. I don't know anyone who made themselves get thyroid cancer, or murdered while minding their own business sitting in their armchair, or who made themselves get rayped, etc, etc, etc
It wasn't a book. It was a scripted format for the future that Orwell didn't write. He was just chosen by his club to be the one to claim it. This "book" was written way way before the forties or whenever they say
Comrades, repeat after me: She's not a communist, she's a moderate. She's not a communist, she's a moderate. She was never border czar. She was never border czar. She was never border czar.
The book has been relevant. Soviet union, china, north Korea, the UK lol we're just noticing what they've been doing to us because the media no longer cares about us knowing it's propaganda they have to sink with the ship Boomer's was their last chance gen x was children of hippies or Vietnam vets and that is how we have so many people questioning things these days yet still so many new fools. My opinion don't @ me bro
Gunna give this listen later. The movie blew my mind years ago. Recently watched it again and realised it was prophetic and describes our modern control of society
For those of you who don’t know, this book wasn’t written to be futuristic. It’s based on Orwells own feelings and experiences during the Spanish Civil War. “The Spanish Civil War catalyzed Orwell and made him highly critical of authoritarian tendencies on the left. Much of the Party's brutality, paranoia, and betrayals are drawn from the Great Purges of 1936-1938 in the Soviet Union.”
“Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it." - George Orwell 1946
Then again. Why would UA-cam themselves even try to look at, what they see being a "11 hour long audiobook that doesn't talk about ways to make money, even through abusing your own customers." video.
I read fahrenheit 451 in 8th grade but thats a simpler book (here in california that was a 10th grade read). I read this book for 12 grade though. I think its fair to make it a 12 grade book because it is too complicated and also inappropriate for 8th grade though
I read this in grade 8 as well. Personally I think this book is beyond the scope of a 13 year old's understanding. At least, it was beyond my scope of understanding. I understand the significance much, much more now.
I’m in England too. I see we have come here at the same time. Wonder why. Lol I read it originally about 20 years ago. Then again about 8 years ago, it’s only in 2924 that I truly appreciate it.
And America. They want a one world government. If you ever get a chance, listen to what the.WEF discusses . Everything that is happening is being done by design.
This book sounds exactly like what they have achieved in China. So precise in its predictions, we just don’t see it because it is slowly happening to the West, especially the UK
I am 73 and read this along with Animal Farm at school. Now it feels strange to me that back then our futures were already planned by governments round the world. Yes that many years ago it was planned.
He wrote it based on his experiences during the Spanish civil war. This has already happened in other parts of the world. History has a funny way of repeating itself…
I'm 56 and surprisingly, I had never realized the 1984 movie, which terrified me as a 14 y/o IN 1984, is nearly the same thing as the book. Yet, hearing it now just makes me wanna fight, yet I'm tired. 😢😢❤️🩹🇺🇸🪽
@@DaisyChain3339. I want to watch your generation spend 30% of their income on their children's college, and work two full time jobs to support a family of 3
George Orwell: I think the author wrestled with the idea of how to squeeze out of the imagination and create a story that is told in the 1984…. What a great book that is beyond description of an ordinary praising of the author and story…. Pakistan 🇵🇰
I friend of mine just sent me a “Make Orwell Fiction Again” hat, so here I am revisiting the novel again. The similarities between the story and modern day reality are striking.
Nice!! Thank you for this. I didn't appreciate this book in high school. But being older and understanding the world more now for what it is.... I'm looking forward to hearing this books message again through adult ears.
"A sinister vision of a world where there is no personal freedom, lies replace the truth, and politically incorrect thought is the most severely punished crime"
@@StoccTube No. It doesn't. People will cancel you for bigotry and hatred more than any other form of communication. Under a 1984 style system, hatred is preferred to love. Also, if you think "cancelling" is the "most severely punished crime", I suggest you try googling criminal sentences for pedos or murders. Idiot statement.
@@jameslynch4661 How dare you point out my bigotry on an online platform often without real world consequences! I view my hate-speech as "truth" because I do as the Party demand
Brilliantly clear and well paced narration of a book so intensely 'down' that I couldn't face reading it on the page. I am getting hooked. Beautifully read by Arthur Lane, Thank you.
In the description, it says unabridged, I certainly hope this book, more than any other, is totally unedited after release. And if that's true, THANK YOU!! It's more important than anyone will ever know. GOOD WORK!!!
Always wanted to read this book. Purchased it. Still haven’t b/c I’m scared to realize it is 2024 as everyone is saying. I will now have the opportunity to “read” it as I can now multitask. Thank you so much. I look forward to this book.
Thank you! I’ve always wanted to read this book but haven’t gotten the chance to buy or borrow from local libraries. This makes it much easier for me and I’ve been told of this book by my mother who read it in the early 80s as she was in high school then and how it was talked about how this would be our certain future. How weirdly close this book is to reality. Also Arthur Lane is magnificent as the narrator!
@@johnstallings4049 Do you really think that someone is pretending to be an unknown British actor who has literally one sentence on Wikipedia, instead of assuming that another person might have the same first and last name?
It's August 20, 2024. This is my first time reading/listening to this. Already, at 4 minutes in, what he's describing sounds to me like devices we have now such as Alexa and Siri.
It's the contemporary society we live in. Big brother everywhere,the authorities decide your fate,the government of the day makes policies to suit them,not the people they govern!
I encourage you to try the book "Discipline and Punish" by Michel Foucault. The audiobook is on UA-cam. You could call it the nonfiction on which this is based.
Didn't know how much of the modern west has been influenced by this book, words like "orwellian", "memory holed", "double think", new speak = political correctness. Calling people comrade as not to define people as mr or ms, the "thought police" I am theologically and politically conservative. This book is amazing and if I was biblically illiterate or naive, I would assume George Orwell was some kind of prophet. The wonderful art while holding seemingly contradictory concepts is mind boggling.
I found this book highly disturbing when it was still fiction. Now that it's reality, it's like a nightmare about which I'd been warning for ages, but no one would listen. Far too many prefer to remain blind and deaf to the truth of what is happening around them, willfully absorbing and celebrating the lies, finding comfort in delusion, and embracing the shackles into which they've willingly surrendered themselves, their liberty, and any hope for their posterity.
Services are usually charged on a monthly basis; that's how the service industry works. How could you buy a service once and then expect to get it all the time? The initial price would be huge.
i read this when i was young but i never really understood any of it. It has unendingly been put forward as a great work of warning for the future. Just like i believed it is an important prescient foreshadowing of what might come to pass, i think a great many also genuinely believe that also. The thing is, neither myself nor all these many other people truly understood what this was. It is terrifyingly accurate for now and has predicted where we are arriving at now. This needs to be a compulsory literature for everyone, poor to filthy rich. Not just in some schools and read by those who seek to read important literature. This should be incorporated into social life everywhere and in all its forms. Readers should be of an age and intelligence that it can be understood. This text is as vital to prevent disaster as the need to reverse our environmental abuse of the planet. There is no point trying to control greenhouse gases if we cannot prevent ourselves from destroying ourselves by more avoidable means.
This book is so strikingly similar to "The Gulag Archipelago" By Alexandr Solzhenitsyn that one may think the russian communists got inspiration from George Orwell's book
He missed the mark on the date in the title by 40 years, but wow, here we are in 2024! Say whatever's on your mind; you're free to speak... lol yeah right!
@@RyanPondFriend The illusion of freedom, my friend... It seems like you can say whatever's on your mind, but the reality is you can't. Just like in Orwell's world, where people think they have the freedom to speak, the moment they truly express something threatening to the established narrative, you "vanish" in more ways than one censorship, de-platforming, or worse. You may not be sent to Room 101, but the methods of control are far more sophisticated now. The world of 1984 isn't so distant, it's just better hidden. Cheers...
Some editions contain 9 rather than 10 chapters in the second part. In creating this audiobook, we used the version available in the Gutenberg project which contains a division into 9 chapters. Publishers like to slightly change parts of books to extend copyright indefinitely. We don't know which version is "correct," but using the Gutenberg version is simply the safer option from a legal standpoint.
I am going through the same path in real life (the differences are in the nuances). I know it’s all quite unpleasant. The worst part is the horror: you know the end and you fear it. You desperately try to break free, to do something, but each time you are pulled back. Sometimes this makes you immobile, sometimes indifferent. Friends don’t understand you and avoid you, they get lost; memories of those you loved evoke only unpleasant feelings. You start to despise people, not understanding what they find in that daily hustle: why they laugh, why they work, why they have children.
In HS we had to read 1984 and Animal Farm. I re-read Animal Farm with my son when he was a HS Senior. It’s definitely what I have been living in my whole life, this illusion.. George Orwell was such a visionary it’s scary. So glad I’m woke as much as I can be. Ain’t following nothing especially the media.
Just be careful you're spending your time awake actually looking brother. All to easy to shut the truth out with the lies. What illusion are you living in brother? Peace and love ☮❤
Anyone else notice how sometimes the guy pronounces things weird sometimes? Like at 7:26:21 he randomly pronounces "double thing" as "Doo-ble think". And just before that, he pronounced "alterable" like "all terrible".
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Loving it!!!
Thanks
Awesome! Thanks! ❤
Thank you for this one. I read the book ages ago and due to pressure of time I can enjoy it again whilst doing things around my house.
I've read 1984 three, possibly four times and I had to read it through caps in my fingers! 😱 Now all I have to do is wince! Thanks so much for putting this up, but it's a pity it's now sign of the times! 🇬🇧😡
I read this about 20 years ago and it meant nothing to me. I decided to revisit it now, and it means everything. I hope everyone is paying attention.
I remember having to read it in high school but remember almost nothing compared to listening to it now. Just the phrase about about a boot eternally smashing a face.
I'm 41 and listening to it for the first time due to the political climate. I keep hearing people talk about it and refer to it. I figure it's time to listen to it. It's only 10 hours. I can do that in a day or two
he who controls the party controls the truth "you do not remember trump getting convicted" ...they'll do everything the communists do but then say "we're not communists" it always ends this way, Mao,Stalin,Pol Pot,Ferdinan Marcos,xi jinping,putin..people keep letting these weirdos lie right to their faces
@@jimmynunya5911 no fear the people have worked out they are being played by the men in high towers
We're too late for it
Some people read this book and thought "If we're not careful, this could happen." Other people read it and thought "If we're careful, this could work."
It is already happening
I think the plan was set already. But wtf do I know😂🤷
Things are worse than Orwell's version.😢
You're dead right. This was my exact thought, and then I came across your comment.
Sadly, it seems that those in power see the novel as an instruction manual.
Didn't think I wanted to listen to this but it autoplayed while I was washing dishes and now I'm hooked! Excellent narration, that's what sold me on continuing. Love this channel and it's top tier narrators!
That’s a good party line
The narration is always a deal breaker for me. If it’s not good it won’t be listened to… but this was great .
Same - only reason I held on …
Took you 10 hrs to do dishes?
@@Digglerdirk79-l4y They got hooked on it while doing dishes, which means they heard part of it and wanted to hear more. So probably didn't take 10 hrs on dishes.
The sheep lives it’s whole life in fear of the wolf only to be eaten by the shepherd.
Interesting take but ultimately flawed. Without the shepard the sheep would be dead long ago. There are much more than wolves trying to eat sheep. There are even carnivorous plants known to entangle and starve sheep to death! (really cool stuff) Other creatures come and feast on the sheep and the bugs eat the carcass so that all the juices and everything break down into the root system feeding the plant. I mean sheep are dumb enough to walk off a cliff so like it's a nice edgy statement but when you put facts to reality, it holds no water.
That old saying should be quoted, *"Wolves in Shepherd's clothing"* .
Not really. Sheep are stupid as hell. Literally the dumbest animal. If the wolf doesn't kill the sheep and if the shepherd doesn't kill the sheep, there are a dozen other things out to kill it. Lol Even carnivorous plant will catch the sheep and eat them. That and the sheep will walk off a cliffs or all kinds of other dumb shit. Nice edgy saying but in reality literally everything is out to kill the sheep, not just the wolf. If it weren't for the shepherd the sheep would be dead long ago.
You know the analogy falls a part because sheep are generally treated well and not used for food because sheep make wool. Cows and pigs yield way more meat. Generally they live better and longer lives than they would in the wild...
Which is due to being in captivity for so long that their hair never stops growing. They are completely dependent on the farmer to shear them. So they cannot live in the wild anymore, not the sheep you see on farms. The sheep literally have no choice but to live on a farm in modern society. It is within their DNA to be captives.
@@michaeltrivette1728 That's brilliant. I shall try to remember it. Thanks.
I'm 31 years old and now re-doing this book.
What a difference from high school till the present. Thank you Mr. ORWELL
Mr. Orwell didn't write this book. .. ... It was written long before. This freemason was just the luciferian they chose to put the name in the plans for the future. Please wake up. Read about freemasons as that's who is calling all the shots today. Please don't buy this Orwell lie
It was still just as relevant 31 years ago
@@KingJamesDisciple my comment was removed.. like I said. Orwell.. didn't write 84. It was written in the 1700's and was delayed publishing untill the "right" time. Don't be fools
@@hokuponopono4415 I can't find any proof that what you are saying is correct. Perhaps you should write your own theory. I'd love to read/listen to it.
@@KingJamesDisciple my learning this was years ago. I've been on this train for fifty years. Now if I think back it's possible it was in a video about Shakespeare. Which one I can remember. I will go in the look out for you. I do believe you keep digging into the lies of the masons .. you'll definitely come across that lie as well. I'll leave a video I watched the other night that I was impressed by. Let me know what you think if you choose to watch it. In the meantime I would like to say, perhaps I'm wrong or guessed, but as a rule, I don't repeat anything unless I've been absolutely convinced if it's validity. I know none of us know who anyone is. I will say I'm no dummy. I'm just not about having any channels or books. Even tho it's been asked of me a hundred times. I spent forty years in new age healings and teaching all that evil garbage. New age at my age then was the rage. I was good at it and it was indeed the largest bad move I ever made. To my defense, my parents were Catholic and I was a hippie who wanted far far away from that. So childhood for me like almost everyone else, lies about it all were the truths we were taught. I'll look around for that cool Shakespeare video I'm thinking of. Even if it's not in that one, if I find it... It's a great video. Aloha.. fingers tired... It's late brah! God Be With You! 🤺❤️🔥🙏
Everyone in America needs to listen to this novel, regardless of your party preference. The USA is falling into this nearly daily and if you don't see that I feel bad for you, our country was founded on freedom and needs to be fixed before it's too late.
For the record the date is 8/25/24
I like that you said both parties
Cant do anything with half the populous! All for one and one for all is what i was taught!@LoisMann-g4u
It was never founded on freedom..
It was founded on A massacre of millions of indigenous people that were murdered...
Four men that were drug addict alcoholics, and possibly pe#os also.
All founded on lies and deceit
Wake up America.
What Goes around comes around.
Hallelujah
1:17:35
2 parties is how they divide us.
There is NO difference.
This is terrifying. Yet we're marching slowly and unconsciously toward the same reality
It's not unconsciously....problem is people still think they are free, lol.
@@NovaRoboticsJ6 they are being robbed of their freedom without being aware of it. Isn't that unconsciousness?
marching slowly?? were way way past this people just haven't realized it yet... the pot is boiling and we are the lobsters
Then you're in big trouble already as you are definitely a ThoughtCriminal now.
Towards? We are already there. The UK is "literally" the embodiment of 1983. Mr Blair just got the dates wrong.😂
I read this book when I was in college, along with Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Both are masterpieces in dystopian literature. Thanks!
Michael Chandler
BNW is one of the best. Read it in high school for funsies and now I try and reread it annually. ❤
Two of my favorite.
No thank you ill be going to find that one next... absolutely scary to think about as we're no longer inching to this we're running and diving for it in the USA
@@tjmurphy3081 that’s a little dramatic, we’ve got a unique set of horrors.
The further you get into this book, the more everything starts to make sense. Both regarding the book's progression and today's world.
Orwell knew the playbook. The overlords told him to write it.
Awake all you can.
Yeah, socialists like George Orwell have historically been right on this stuff
@@Ребятамозверятах-э1мTheory doesn't end 100 years ago you know
@@Ребятамозверятах-э1мWhich reads you suggest?
Make 1984 fiction again.
Well said.
I feel the same way listening to the animal farm audiobook.
Democrats Goooooooood
Republicans Baaaaaad
And Trump is farmer John
@@inblackamericaradio5409I've never heard of Animal Farm. I'll check it out.
@@inblackamericaradio5409
Do you realize that democrats are more for a big government than republicans and are also more socialized?
@@sativacation liberal white supremacist.
Simply amazing. I thought I would hate this book. I find myself stunned in awe of what a well written and well read book and audio book this is. Thank you for sharing, Arthur Lane and friends.
I don’t usually listen to audiobooks, I can’t seem to concentrate on it. This book held my attention
It’s narrator is very good. And the words better,
The narrator is text to speech 🤣@@dennisligma4958
@@dennisligma4958AI
11 hours.. absolute madlads. Outstanding work.
2024 brought me here.
This book is depressing for the fact that it is becoming the actual future
@Intxcte23 I never thought I'd come back to year 11 English class... but here I am 31 years old and actually loving it!
I literally had to ditch a youtube account recently cause it was being filtered and made using youtube next to impossible, and made my phone battery drain super fast
@richardPhilips2 I wonder if that is what is happening to me? Same thing , phone battery drains, and sometimes it closes apps due to being too hot.
project 2025
The world is becoming a combination of 1984 and Idiocracy. Very frightening, people just tell me I have a weird perspective of the world but I see it more everyday 😢
Your not wrong
You're not alone
Not 1984, Brave New World. Read that one, it's way more interesting and relevant than 1984.
Orwell - what we fear will control us.
Huxley - what we love will control us.
but WE make our realities
@@michaelfraser5723
I mean, not really though.
I don't know anyone who made themselves get thyroid cancer, or murdered while minding their own business sitting in their armchair, or who made themselves get rayped, etc, etc, etc
I now realize that this book is not an action novel. It is a tragedy. A warning of a sad ending.
My favourite and the most pertinent concept book ever written. Playing out right before our ignorant eyes. Many, many thanks.
What makes you say that?
This book is more relevant now than ever.
It wasn't a book. It was a scripted format for the future that Orwell didn't write. He was just chosen by his club to be the one to claim it. This "book" was written way way before the forties or whenever they say
Comrades, repeat after me: She's not a communist, she's a moderate. She's not a communist, she's a moderate. She was never border czar. She was never border czar. She was never border czar.
The book has been relevant. Soviet union, china, north Korea, the UK lol we're just noticing what they've been doing to us because the media no longer cares about us knowing it's propaganda they have to sink with the ship Boomer's was their last chance gen x was children of hippies or Vietnam vets and that is how we have so many people questioning things these days yet still so many new fools. My opinion don't @ me bro
@@hokuponopono4415I want you to go more in depth on this
Why relevant?
Gunna give this listen later. The movie blew my mind years ago. Recently watched it again and realised it was prophetic and describes our modern control of society
what we experience now is subtle in comparison but all the while still a major red flag 😂
Which film version? I think the John Hurt film is the best one.
@@mirrorgardenssit’s really not. Democrats and republicans are all members of the same political party, capitalism.
For those of you who don’t know, this book wasn’t written to be futuristic. It’s based on Orwells own feelings and experiences during the Spanish Civil War.
“The Spanish Civil War catalyzed Orwell and made him highly critical of authoritarian tendencies on the left. Much of the Party's brutality, paranoia, and betrayals are drawn from the Great Purges of 1936-1938 in the Soviet Union.”
“Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it." - George Orwell 1946
I wonder what his family believes today.
Thank you for turning on captions. A lot of audiobooks on youtube never turn on captions for no reason even though its incredibly helpful.
I'm surprised UA-cam hasn't taken this down as it perfectly describes their utopia.
Then again. Why would UA-cam themselves even try to look at, what they see being a "11 hour long audiobook that doesn't talk about ways to make money, even through abusing your own customers." video.
Haha great comment.
Thank you, Arthur Lane makes a great book FANTASTIC!
Arthur Lane, you truly are the best voice in audiobooks.
If you love Arthur Lane, have a listen to Steve Parker as well. You'll love him!
@@goodcitizen3780 I'll check him out
I miss Steve Parker’s 1984 so much . This one is also okay but parts of it sound AI generated
@@phum4567
Steve Parker reposted 1984!!!
It's been back!
@@phum4567 pretty sure the whole thing is text to speech, so many spelling mistakes and very odd mispronunciations.
It's crazy how my 8th grade assigned reading still holds a special place in my heart all these years later.
We read Animal farm in 12th grade at my school
I read fahrenheit 451 in 8th grade but thats a simpler book (here in california that was a 10th grade read). I read this book for 12 grade though. I think its fair to make it a 12 grade book because it is too complicated and also inappropriate for 8th grade though
I read this in grade 8 as well. Personally I think this book is beyond the scope of a 13 year old's understanding. At least, it was beyond my scope of understanding. I understand the significance much, much more now.
I also remember reading Lord of the Flies and The Chrysalids in grade 8. I'm going to listen to those when I'm finished this one.
I’m listening to this on Friday 9th August 2024 in England😢
I’m in England too. I see we have come here at the same time. Wonder why. Lol
I read it originally about 20 years ago. Then again about 8 years ago, it’s only in 2924 that I truly appreciate it.
I started a few days ago. I'm in England too. I think everyone in THE UK needs to read or listen to this. The book is happening in real time
Friday 16th August ‘24 I’m listening
Yeah we are going to be living it very soon.
Here from South Africa. Saturday 17 August 2024.
Another Brilliant Story Read By Arthur Lane. Excellent Presentation. Many Thanks For Sharing.
Everyone needs to listen to this classic
1984 = 2024
And 40yrs before 84 was 44.. another bad time in our recent history
I was born in 84
@@starlord6152it was written closer to 44
Eh it also equals literally 1984. It was already really bad by then.
Not yet but getting closer
*48:50* I'm blown away at the accuracy in just the first 48 minutes.
George Orwell must of been a time traveler , UK 2024
I read it originally about 20 years ago. Then again about 8 years ago, it’s only in 2924 that I truly appreciate it.
He knew how they worked , and it just got worse! The Tele screen is what the internet finds out about you!
And America. They want a one world government. If you ever get a chance, listen to what the.WEF discusses . Everything that is happening is being done by design.
@Skyrim321, that's pretty deep. Do you do Bar mitzvahs?
@Skyrim321 OH HE knew.
They put it into our brains and then it happens.
I keep listening to this over and over, it’s just so well written and intriguing- very immersive too.
This book sounds exactly like what they have achieved in China. So precise in its predictions, we just don’t see it because it is slowly happening to the West, especially the UK
Even more true today
I am 73 and read this along with Animal Farm at school. Now it feels strange to me that back then our futures were already planned by governments round the world. Yes that many years ago it was planned.
And promoted by the woke 'Auntie' BBC
Closer to North Korea for what little I know about the place and based on the tv broadcasts I've seen from there.
Have you ever been to China?
Unbelievably this was written in the 30s and it’s almost just like right now in time
and somehow their plan seems to continue.
1949 👍
@@jacobhelgeson3038 1948, that's why he called it 1984
He wrote it based on his experiences during the Spanish civil war. This has already happened in other parts of the world. History has a funny way of repeating itself…
How exactly is it "just like" right now? What parts?
Wow Amazing! I really like it! Thank you for sharing! I enjoyed watching it until the end. I hope you have a happy day, dear friend❤💕
Everytime I listen to an audiobook I fall asleep before the 1st chapter is over and when I wake up the book is already finished.
😂😂😂
then start at the second chapter the next night haha
If you are listening it whole, you would realize that it happened everyone. Life is usually finished before people wake up.
53 and having never read this I thought I’d give it a go . It’s as good and terrifying I imagined it would be . Certainly makes you think .
Critical thinking tank 😔📚👍🤓
I'm 61!!! It's terrifying 😳🤔
I'm 56 and surprisingly, I had never realized the 1984 movie, which terrified me as a 14 y/o IN 1984, is nearly the same thing as the book. Yet, hearing it now just makes me wanna fight, yet I'm tired. 😢😢❤️🩹🇺🇸🪽
9/10/24
Did this for my English class, much easier to listen than to actually have to read.
And that is why my generation is smarter. We had to work at things, yours takes the easy way.
@@DaisyChain3339. I want to watch your generation spend 30% of their income on their children's college, and work two full time jobs to support a family of 3
It’s an incredibly easy read and / or listen
@@derekgregg9009 I know it's just that I didn't need to to pass. Something like math is more of my forte, I'm in an AP calculus class rn
I would think so…..it’s happening before your very eyes.
Chapter 10 wasn’t bookmarked. If ur looking for chapter 10 it starts at 7:34:30
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
George Orwell: I think the author wrestled with the idea of how to squeeze out of the imagination and create a story that is told in the 1984….
What a great book that is beyond description of an ordinary praising of the author and story….
Pakistan 🇵🇰
I friend of mine just sent me a “Make Orwell Fiction Again” hat, so here I am revisiting the novel again. The similarities between the story and modern day reality are striking.
In what ways specifically?
Nice!! Thank you for this. I didn't appreciate this book in high school. But being older and understanding the world more now for what it is.... I'm looking forward to hearing this books message again through adult ears.
I am afraid but I am listening
I had to read this book when I was in college & hated it but after years navigating this journey called life, it made a lot of sense
Does anybody else fall asleep listening, to start dreaming what they're listening to?
Yep I had some unusual dreams listening to this. Here I am again listening to it again tonight!
not healthy.
Music especially. You're going to give yourself a fckn tumor.
Good day to give this one another listen.
I put this on the right-wingers and conspiracy nuts vague comments as well - so will do the same here because this is important.
Why?
"A sinister vision of a world where there is no personal freedom, lies replace the truth, and politically incorrect thought is the most severely punished crime"
Sounds familiar with 2024 cancel culture
Trump and his minions vision for America and the world.
@@StoccTubehow dare you speak a truth that hurts my feelings!!! Right?
@@StoccTube No. It doesn't. People will cancel you for bigotry and hatred more than any other form of communication. Under a 1984 style system, hatred is preferred to love. Also, if you think "cancelling" is the "most severely punished crime", I suggest you try googling criminal sentences for pedos or murders. Idiot statement.
@@jameslynch4661 How dare you point out my bigotry on an online platform often without real world consequences! I view my hate-speech as "truth" because I do as the Party demand
Brilliantly clear and well paced narration of a book so intensely 'down' that I couldn't face reading it on the page. I am getting hooked. Beautifully read by Arthur Lane, Thank you.
My first audiobook and I'm in for audiobooks. Thanks!
My first time too
In the description, it says unabridged, I certainly hope this book, more than any other, is totally unedited after release. And if that's true, THANK YOU!! It's more important than anyone will ever know. GOOD WORK!!!
Thank you for the free audio book. I can't afford one right now so you are very appreciated
I read this book in high school and remember being freaked out and wondering if anyone else was seeing how eerily similar it was to our world today.
What do you mean it's like our world today?
The narration, smooth and seamless. I forgot that i was being read to. Thank You.
Each morning I reached for my ear muffs needing a "fix" to find out what happened...👉👈💭💭😔✨
It's a shame that so many people have never read it !!
2+2=5 !!!!
Since last night and the presidential debate....... I keep saying this and trying to "warn" ppl.
Wouldn’t matter, we seem to be oblivious to warnings 😕
I read this in high school in 1974. Who knew 50 years on we would be living it.
Wow what an awesome audiobook, had no idea 1984 was so good
Always wanted to read this book. Purchased it. Still haven’t b/c I’m scared to realize it is 2024 as everyone is saying. I will now have the opportunity to “read” it as I can now multitask. Thank you so much. I look forward to this book.
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Thank you! I’ve always wanted to read this book but haven’t gotten the chance to buy or borrow from local libraries. This makes it much easier for me and I’ve been told of this book by my mother who read it in the early 80s as she was in high school then and how it was talked about how this would be our certain future. How weirdly close this book is to reality.
Also Arthur Lane is magnificent as the narrator!
Unfortunately this book is an AI generated narrator because arthur lane died in 1987
@@johnstallings4049 Do you really think that someone is pretending to be an unknown British actor who has literally one sentence on Wikipedia, instead of assuming that another person might have the same first and last name?
@@kanapowe_granie hard to tell nowadays isn't it ^¿^ 😶
It's August 20, 2024. This is my first time reading/listening to this. Already, at 4 minutes in, what he's describing sounds to me like devices we have now such as Alexa and Siri.
Dziękujemy.
Thank you 😊
It's the contemporary society we live in. Big brother everywhere,the authorities decide your fate,the government of the day makes policies to suit them,not the people they govern!
I encourage you to try the book "Discipline and Punish" by Michel Foucault. The audiobook is on UA-cam. You could call it the nonfiction on which this is based.
Literally 1984!
Didn't know how much of the modern west has been influenced by this book, words like "orwellian", "memory holed", "double think", new speak = political correctness. Calling people comrade as not to define people as mr or ms, the "thought police" I am theologically and politically conservative. This book is amazing and if I was biblically illiterate or naive, I would assume George Orwell was some kind of prophet. The wonderful art while holding seemingly contradictory concepts is mind boggling.
Salute to you sir narrating the story in the incredible way with great voice….
Still love this book. In addition, the narration was top notch and engrossing throughout. Your voice is so easy to listen to.
I found this book highly disturbing when it was still fiction. Now that it's reality, it's like a nightmare about which I'd been warning for ages, but no one would listen. Far too many prefer to remain blind and deaf to the truth of what is happening around them, willfully absorbing and celebrating the lies, finding comfort in delusion, and embracing the shackles into which they've willingly surrendered themselves, their liberty, and any hope for their posterity.
It's called the human condition.
What parts EXACTLY are happening around us?
We are living it now...
Sad to say but true I'm hearing and seeing things
@@LoisMann-g4u watch those Thought crimes..
How so?
We even pay monthly for our own teleports, I mean, cell phones. Orwell wasn't quite thinking of that yet.
Do you mean "telescreens"? I am a bit confused
They meant telephones @@timorisch8385
Services are usually charged on a monthly basis; that's how the service industry works. How could you buy a service once and then expect to get it all the time? The initial price would be huge.
i read this when i was young but i never really understood any of it. It has unendingly been put forward as a great work of warning for the future.
Just like i believed it is an important prescient foreshadowing of what might come to pass, i think a great many also genuinely believe that also.
The thing is, neither myself nor all these many other people truly understood what this was. It is terrifyingly accurate for now and has predicted where we are arriving at now. This needs to be a compulsory literature for everyone, poor to filthy rich. Not just in some schools and read by those who seek to read important literature. This should be incorporated into social life everywhere and in all its forms. Readers should be of an age and intelligence that it can be understood.
This text is as vital to prevent disaster as the need to reverse our environmental abuse of the planet. There is no point trying to control greenhouse gases if we cannot prevent ourselves from destroying ourselves by more avoidable means.
Thanks
We thank you too 🙂
I read "1984" in the 7th grade. I am now 52. It's still a wonderful book, but how different it is now as an adult and being 13 years old. 😮
Can you give me some advice on life and mistakes I should avoid from your perspective
This book is so strikingly similar to "The Gulag Archipelago" By Alexandr Solzhenitsyn that one may think the russian communists got inspiration from George Orwell's book
Actually it's the reverse. Orwell was once an Leftist idealist ... Until he witnessed the beast in action.
He missed the mark on the date in the title by 40 years, but wow, here we are in 2024! Say whatever's on your mind; you're free to speak... lol yeah right!
How so? You're here making this post without being "vanished" or sent to Room 101 aren't you?
@@RyanPondFriend The illusion of freedom, my friend... It seems like you can say whatever's on your mind, but the reality is you can't. Just like in Orwell's world, where people think they have the freedom to speak, the moment they truly express something threatening to the established narrative, you "vanish" in more ways than one censorship, de-platforming, or worse. You may not be sent to Room 101, but the methods of control are far more sophisticated now. The world of 1984 isn't so distant, it's just better hidden. Cheers...
Haven’t read a book in years until this summer I finally opened one again, and now I managed to crank this one out in 3 days, thank you
You should actually read a book too man.
part 2, chapter 10 is treated at more chapter 9.
it starts at 7:34:30
the reader doesn't acknowledge it as chapter 10
but it is
Some editions contain 9 rather than 10 chapters in the second part. In creating this audiobook, we used the version available in the Gutenberg project which contains a division into 9 chapters. Publishers like to slightly change parts of books to extend copyright indefinitely. We don't know which version is "correct," but using the Gutenberg version is simply the safer option from a legal standpoint.
I read this book ironically in 1984 and it terrifies me to this day!
Very thought provoking
Thank you for sharing this I’ve always wanted to give it a listen
i need every single audiobook to come in this guys voice
I am going through the same path in real life (the differences are in the nuances). I know it’s all quite unpleasant. The worst part is the horror: you know the end and you fear it. You desperately try to break free, to do something, but each time you are pulled back. Sometimes this makes you immobile, sometimes indifferent. Friends don’t understand you and avoid you, they get lost; memories of those you loved evoke only unpleasant feelings. You start to despise people, not understanding what they find in that daily hustle: why they laugh, why they work, why they have children.
Your next read should be The Fountainhead, then, to help pull yourself out of that.
I seriously doubt that you are not going through the same path in real life
“We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.”
All of you people who think this is brand new and hasn’t been going on since it was written in the 40s…you need to read more.
43:16 "...He was a fatish but active man of paralyzing stupidity..."
How nice of George Orwell to include me in his book.
Wonderful reading. Thank you!
This is still a masterpiece!
Despite being AI narrated, it's one of the best I have heard. Thank you. Looking forward to hearing more long famous works of literature. 🙏😀
This is not AI
It is not AI
In HS we had to read 1984 and Animal Farm. I re-read Animal Farm with my son when he was a HS Senior. It’s definitely what I have been living in my whole life, this illusion.. George Orwell was such a visionary it’s scary. So glad I’m woke as much as I can be. Ain’t following nothing especially the media.
Just be careful you're spending your time awake actually looking brother. All to easy to shut the truth out with the lies.
What illusion are you living in brother?
Peace and love ☮❤
I have an essay due in 2 days and I haven’t read a single word. Thank you audiobooks and 1.5 speed!😭🙏🏻❤️
Nice video! I could listen to your voice all day.
Some of this stuff sounds eerily familiar. The US government and elites would love nothing more than to have the world like this.
I hate to agree but it looks that way I listening and paying attention
Sounds just like the UK in 2024. Mr Blair just got the date wrong.
maybe this plan was already in motion in 1984, it's just more obvious to the average mind now.
I read it originally about 20 years ago. Then again about 8 years ago, it’s only in 2924 that I truly appreciate it.
How so exactly?
Yeah bc north Korea China and Russia doesn't exist also banana republics lol
@RyanPondFriend no one ever has an idea lmao... they just parrot this sentiment like party propaganda 🤣
Anyone else notice how sometimes the guy pronounces things weird sometimes? Like at 7:26:21 he randomly pronounces "double thing" as "Doo-ble think". And just before that, he pronounced "alterable" like "all terrible".
Thanks! I 've just finished the audibook and I 've really enjoyed
Thanks!
We thank you too!
HOW OUR POLITICAL MASTERS ARE SO HAPPY TO MOVE US ALL CLOSER TO REALITY
AND HOW STUPID WE LET THEM
Who is here after seeing what's going on in the world 2024? Mr Orwell was right
What exactly is going on that makes you think of 1984?
The changing of books and newspapers will be made easier with technology. No need to destroy old copies. Just change the information via computers.
Thank you. Got me through reading this in school!!!🙌🙌🙌
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i honestly did not think it'd be 10 hours😭 i have to read this book for AP english but don't have the focus to read all of that. very helpful video
10 hours is actually not that bad for an audiobook lol
Absolutely sounds like England is becoming this.
Yep, and promoted by the BBC
A.nd the USA.....
Harris NEVER got done what she said she'd do when in office. And the Haitian ppl!!!🤬🤬🤯😮💨😤🫡
What makes you say this?