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Nineteen Eighty-Four Marathon Reading Event 299	Print This Page
It is a time of secret prisons and torture, of ceaseless distant wars and violent nationalism, of electronic surveillance on every street corner and Big Brother on screens everywhere... The year is 2008 – or is it 1984? Marking the 60th anniversary of the writing of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Ariel Booksellers and Blue Mountains author Larry Buttrose are co-hosting a cover-to-cover reading of George Orwell’s classic. In the Orwellian dystopia of the year 1984, history is destroyed as readily as people are vaporised. The past is rewritten minute by minute so that the Party is always right, and even individual consciousness is controlled by Doublethink, and the terrorising Thought Police. And towering above it all, on billboards and screens everywhere, is the leader in whom the ultimate cult of personality resides, Big Brother. Drop by and listen, stay for the whole event – or volunteer to read. Includes the presentation of a paper about the novel and the author, the Nineteen Eighty-Four Quiz, and Victory Cocktails at 6pm, followed by a Two Minute Love. For more information: call Ariel Booksellers on 93324581 or email Larry Buttrose at reading1984in2008@yahoo.com Download the Nineteen Eighty-Four Marathon Reading poster here:  1984_poster 2.10 Mb Special Event  |  Fiction	When Sunday, May 25 2008 14:00 - 00:00 Where Ariel Booksellers 42 Oxford Street Paddington Venue and Transport Info... Cost Free Info reading1984in2008@yahoo.com Schedule Add to My Schedule