1984 (Signet Classics) Immediately


That's not why you should read this edition, since any good copy of 1984 is going to feel like a poignant precursor to the mess we live in now (as for those machine mentioned in a recent review, I don't think that's the problem: rather, it's the speed that digital processing of stock market manipulation allows that is truly becoming one of the worst problems negatively affecting the world economy today).

No, the reason to read this edition is for the Pynchon foreword! Pynchon's voice has been, since "Gravity's Rainbow" almost the inheritance of 1984; as a dislocation of the predictiveness of the Orwellian text, it also has functioned as a panacea to this nightmare we live on, precisely because Pynchon's language doesn't allow for any concreteness. Go read "Gravity's Rainbow" then go read "Inherent Vice" (or vice-versa, since the latter is infinitely easier to read than the former), and get a taste of the way the world should be.Get more detail about 1984 (Signet Classics).