This book is insanely disturbing. When I was a kid, I had pet rats, but I don't know if I will ever look at them quite the same way after reading 1984. George Orwell had some kind of keen insight into the idea of dictatorship and dystopia. So many facets of this made-up culture reminded me of North Korea.

The ending was so vague I'm still wondering exactly what happened. My mind was blown by this book... in a good way.