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Pretty good book, I'm considering it as my related text for 1984, just finished reading it. I don't understand some words yet but I'll ask my english teacher to help me out.
Yeah, there's quite a good context you can draw on and relate to 1984. Maybe you can also reference Orwell's 'Animal Farm'?

Cambridge Mathematics Extension 2 - David Sadler and Derek Ward
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Let me bring the conversation back to the thread lol

I'm currently reading Dune. Just started, but it seems pretty good so far. Planning to watch the movie after I finish reading it, because books > adaptation movies
 

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Let me bring the conversation back to the thread lol

I'm currently reading Dune. Just started, but it seems pretty good so far. Planning to watch the movie after I finish reading it, because books > adaptation movies
gonna watch the book thief for 1984. I heard vishnay's friend starred in it so it would be paying tribute. On a serious note I think Book Thief would be a really good related text for 1984 since it has the same themes of oppression and manipulation of information but its more... historical and representative of the extent of tolitarianism.
 

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Pretty good book, I'm considering it as my related text for 1984, just finished reading it. I don't understand some words yet but I'll ask my english teacher to help me out.
Fascinating! We are currently studying the same text in Extension 2 english. What a coincidence! We have to thoroughly study this text then draw inspiration from it and write our own. Luckily the teachers are nice enough to let us achieve the band 6 range with quality that is only 31% of this masterpiece. Unfortunately half our class dropped in the first lesson. They simply could not understand ancient elmowian, it felt like hieroglyphics for them! I am currently contemplating life and hoping I achieve 11.2% in this assessment as I simply cannot get past page 2 - where the Big Bird is introduced (a deadly metaphor which I can still cannot grasp). I'm assuming so far it represents one's desire for freedom in an oppressive totalitarian state. Far more complex than 1984 which my 3 year old cousin get read in 12.98 seconds.
 

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Let me bring the conversation back to the thread lol

I'm currently reading Dune. Just started, but it seems pretty good so far. Planning to watch the movie after I finish reading it, because books > adaptation movies
I just realised Dune was a prescribed text up until 2018 (I think)...but I'm honestly reading it for fun lol
 

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Fascinating! We are currently studying the same text in Extension 2 english. What a coincidence! We have to thoroughly study this text then draw inspiration from it and write our own. Luckily the teachers are nice enough to let us achieve the band 6 range with quality that is only 31% of this masterpiece. Unfortunately half our class dropped in the first lesson. They simply could not understand ancient elmowian, it felt like hieroglyphics for them! I am currently contemplating life and hoping I achieve 11.2% in this assessment as I simply cannot get past page 2 - where the Big Bird is introduced (a deadly metaphor which I can still cannot grasp). I'm assuming so far it represents one's desire for freedom in an oppressive totalitarian state. Far more complex than 1984 which my 3 year old cousin get read in 12.98 seconds.
Elmo's death invoked a cathartic response truly. Can't believe he got mugged in the end by Big Bird :(
 

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Someone encourage me to continue from where I left off on Ulysses. I physically & mentally can't take it atm needless to say but post HSC I doubt I'll be willing either... Any fellow Joyceophiles around?
 

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Someone encourage me to continue from where I left off on Ulysses. I physically & mentally can't take it atm needless to say but post HSC I doubt I'll be willing either... Any fellow Joyceophiles around?
Haven’t read that. But yeah I get what you mean by a book feeling like a mental drain at times, especially those really long dense ones

Longest book you guys have read? For real though, no X2 math textbooks 😂😂
My longest read so far is Tolstoy’s War and Peace
 

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Haven’t read that. But yeah I get what you mean by a book feeling like a mental drain at times, especially those really long dense ones

Longest book you guys have read? For real though, no X2 math textbooks 😂😂
My longest read so far is Tolstoy’s War and Peace
Here's some fine literature.

Heheh.. 😈
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