Benny Weisbrot's outside reading choice

I chose to read the novel 1984 by George Orwell. The reason this novel interested me is because it is a change from the norm. Through out this year, and from the time I started reading novels in school, most novels were about utopias. The idea that everything is or seems to be perfect. In the novel that we just completed, Candide, everything was presented to Candide as a utopia. The novel 1984 is about a dystopia. It will be interesting to see how the main characters or the novel act in circumstances where everything is bad.