Are youngsters who read it horrified by the World as described in Orwell's "1984" , or do they think it's normal?

I (vividly) remember reading it in the 1960s, and citing it as "satire" in a high school book report.

I have trouble reconciling how wrong I was. I doubt that any high school student nowadays would even

think of it as fiction, or interesting.

It's too bad that the movie starring Richard Burton and John Hurt wasn't a very good interpretation of the book. There's another movie version from 1956 that was released with two different endings. The book is as depressing as the subject matter. Do the kids still read Cliff's Notes?

Personally, I prefer the album by Van Halen.

I read 1984 my Freshman year of high school (I graduated in 1963) I was not horrified then and doub that a kid reading it now would be.

The smart ones are just horrified you're blown away by this book as if you'd never encountered any of the ideas in it before or read another book.

I agree with Christian; hardly no one likes to read anymore - which is why so many young people nowadays see a real life version of George Orwell's 1984 as normal, which is very disheartening but true.

They are very relieved. They could have been set 'Jane Eyre'.

Uhh, youngsters don’t READ anymore. Books are for nerds. If this book were so important, there would be a HBO miniseries of it.