r/AskReddit 18h ago

What's the best book you've ever read?

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u/ShrimplyFriedRice 17h ago

1984 by George Orwell. I didn’t understand much of the meaning behind it when I was 17, but as Ive gotten older, it makes a lot of damn sense now.

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u/IDaGrinch 16h ago

I came here to say this. I read 1984 for the second time (first time was high school as well) during the pandemic and it completely blew my mind. The last chapter or 2 just eat at my brain like a tumor.

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u/IDaGrinch 15h ago

That's a great idea. I'm definitely stealing that..there are so many books that I "read" in high school and into college that I have no clue what they are about.

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u/IDaGrinch 15h ago

I had terrible teachers in high school. That definitely didn't help either.