If I could rate this 6 stars, I would take that chance in a heartbeat. 5 stars for the story and the terrifying intricacy to this world that isn't entirely impossible to create, and then the other star for making me re-think the extend to which perception can be manipulated. What it's possible to do to a human mind if you are intelligent enough to know what makes a mind tick.

One of the ingenious things I read from this book was the language of newspeak. A language that could make it impossible to articulate any thoughts that would be against the party, any thoughts that could even be counted as thinking: eliminated. In this world not even death was permitted in the hands of the party unless you were first tortured and made insane enough to accept the principles of Ingsoc as truth. You do not die once caught unless you love Big Brother first. A world in which we do not have the freedom to say 2 + 2 = 4 is a world in which contradictions make sense, where love for any person is obscene unless it's for Big Brother. I found myself asking "why?" So much throughout reading this, questioning anything that any character stated. I couldn't trust any of it, I could only weep for the unimaginable torturous world where War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength, Freedom is Slavery, and the only hope is to love Big Brother.