Comment on Teen reading slumps to worst this century due to surge in screen timeparentComments−jonhohle3dI personally wouldn’t choose 1984 for a 14 year old, but would consider it rather tame compared to modern fiction. Some of it would make the grocery store check out isle romance novels blush but also don’t contain any profound message.−orwin2dWeirdly, what hit me at 14 wasn't the big brother stuff, it was the romance and how sentiments, emotions were a danger in that world.
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I personally wouldn’t choose 1984 for a 14 year old, but would consider it rather tame compared to modern fiction. Some of it would make the grocery store check out isle romance novels blush but also don’t contain any profound message.
Weirdly, what hit me at 14 wasn't the big brother stuff, it was the romance and how sentiments, emotions were a danger in that world.