1984 is a great fiction novel to read but it seems like it is becoming the reality we are currently living under more and more each day.
If I could pile on my own critique above the “fiction novel” issue: isn’t “a great novel to read” a phrase that kind of makes the book sound fun? It’s not that it’s technically wrong. But it’s like if someone said, “You won’t want to miss 1984 by George Orwell!”
I just presented the phrase to a friend of mine if they got the same vibe, because I wasn’t sure if this was just me, and they said, “It makes me think he’s never read anything. Like he doesn’t know what reading is like.”
There’s just something wrong with it.
