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Shwetambari Bukshete shweta_artaholic — - Why I decided to read this book? I read this bbok first in intermediete school and have read it several times since. I have enjoyed every time I have devoured this depressing tale of control and rebellion and every time I have read it I have picked up something new about the story or characters. 1984 really is a testament to George Orwell's amazing writing skill. - Bingo Board? 1984 is a dystopian science fiction story set in what is a parallel version of 1984. As such it fills in the science fiction book slot quite nicely. - What I enjoyed about this book and why? Did I enjoy this book? Yes, very much so. It presents such a realistic and depressing view of a simple mans world and delivers some memorable characters and moments. The enitre book is set in a dystopian world were a extreme goverment faction rules over every aspect of peoples lives, were even a negative thought against them would end with you being pulled from your bed in the dead of night by the malicious thought police. I found this setting very engaging and it made me look at our own society today and think about what would have happened to change it into what is portrayed in the book. The end though is what got to me most with some serious events that ultimatly lead to one of the biggest change in a main character I have ever seen. - What I did not enjoy about the book and why? The book was first published in 1945 and as such the language can sometimes make it diffucult to understand what is going on, or what the characters are trying to portray. I also felt that the entire book set a rather depressing tone which is good for atmosphere but bad for the readers state of mind. - Who would I reccomend this book to? I would reccomend this book to fans of science fiction and classic litreture it is an amazing and deep book that I think that any serious reader should read atleast once. Favourite Quote- WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Richard Tam _howtari — Back in graduate school, when our idea of a really good time was studying abstruse social theory, there was one or another -ism that purported to explore the linkages between the large-scale forces of Big History and the local lived experience of individuals. I remember it as a very compelling piece of theorizing with gobs of intellectual merit, lacking only in any kind of applicability to empirical research. And so Big History and lived experience remained sadly disconnected, as least on my watch. It turns out that we might have done better to just read "Bridge on the Drina." Apparently the best known novel to have been written in the Serbo-Croatian language, "Bridge" is the story of a bridge, and of the town by the bridge, and of the people who live in the town, all through dozens of generations of Balkan history. Always in the background are the intricate ethnic relations of Bosnia and the destinies of larger kingdoms, through the long decline of the Ottoman Empire, the apex of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the crises of the early 20th Century. Seldom discussed directly, the big political picture nevertheless underlies everything that happens in the lives of the peasants, merchants, tradesmen, students, and soldiers who populate the novel. Ivo Andric, whose day job was in the diplomatic corps of the late Yugoslavia, is masterful at showing how decisions from faraway capitals alter the tenor of life for the people who live near his bridge, and also how forces of local tradition and isolation, and not incidentally the force of accumulated local lore, render the town and the lives of its people idiosyncratic and unique. It is, I discovered after I’d read most of the novel, a real bridge! And the town, Visegrad, is a real town! Yet despite that, and despite the highly specific local setting, Visegrad serves as a kind of everytown, and Balkan history to an extent a stand-in for any history. "Bridge on the Drina" has a real universal quality, in one sense “about” a certain time and place but equally “about” what it is like to be a human in a town that is shaped and shocked by events from the world beyond its outskirts. The writing style – I read the translation by Lovett Edwards – has a formal, measured Central European solemnity to it. It is not a book to get through in one sitting, but it is also a highly compelling read which kept me up too late more than one night, trying to get through “just one more chapter.” Violence and sexuality are, as in real life, driving forces throughout, but are discussed and described with a great deal of dignity and discretion. However, I will also warn you of a lengthy and detailed description of a torture-execution early in the book that ranks among the most ghastly, horrifying passages I have ever read. PLOT: A bridge is built. The centuries pass. Life goes on. The narrative unfolds as a series of short stories and anecdotes. Most chapters include more than one distinct story within them, and many stories overlap the chapter breaks, yet the chapters provide a pacing and a rhythm that seem exactly right. Characters, families, buildings, large and small modifications of the bridge itself, and the enduring habits of the townspeople appear and reappear, weaving the book loosely together through time. The book ends in 1914 with the outbreak of World War I. The bridge itself, however, has continued its journey through history. It was the site of horrific events during the dissolution of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. Today, though, it is a World Heritage Site, and bookish people from all over apparently make the pilgrimage to integrate the bridge into their own life stories. Having read this book, I understand why they would.