/lit/ - Literature

>middle aged sub5 man has a beautiful government issued wife
>some paragraphs bitching about how she mentions the party when he nuts inside her or whatever
>separated because he can't have kids
>a beautiful younger woman falls in love with him and they have sex multiple times
>this is supposed to be a dystopia where le sex is illegal
The takeaway is that it's easier for a sub5 to have sex in this fictional dystopia that tries to ban it than now.
This is because incels basically did not exist in the 1940s and the author could not possibly predict what is happening now. Same thing with Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground, where the giga-loser protagonist is also somehow a sexhaver.
Right now we live under a sexhaver cultural hegemony where sex is a presumed default thing to do even though more and more people are sexless. But back then this was legitimately the reality for everyone. They had so much sex they couldn't possibly envision a non-sexhaving human.

Just finished reading the whole book and while the premise of the book is good, the actual plot and story is pretty much subpar, having large plot holes for no good reason? Like when Julia wants to remove a crucial painting to check for bugs, but decides not to for no reason, after which it's revealed that due to that painting they were being spied on? The ending was pretty shit and expected too, wow bravo, you got proven wrong that your spirit can be crushed before being shot in the back much like every other disenter.
But what's the point??? What a shit read and a waste of time

picrel
you can't change my mind

This is a great book, and I don't care if /lit/ contrarians hate it.

ITT authors that were completely wrong about their predictions

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Should I read this? I don't really like Orwell because he's too vague as saying >Hyper Authoritarianism BAD is not exactly groundbreaking. However, it's getting referenced too much for me to ignore it, even if the people referencing it are obvious pseuds

>strong central governments bad

Wachu little monkeys reading right now? Enjoying it?

Does this book have increased relevance right now?

>erase the entire ending at the chestnut's cafe part bullshit

Ah, perfect.

is 1984 a good book

I don't think any other ending has pissed me off more