| Denver Book Club Monthly Meetup |
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Thursday, April 22 2010, 7:00pm
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The Denver Book Club will hold its monthly meetup event at the DPC. The cost is just $3.00. Info: http://www.meetup.com/denverbookclub/calendar/12481354/
Our April fiction book selection is "1984," by George Orwell.
Adapted from Amazon.com review: Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. |
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