Wow! I've got a serious bargain high right now. I had to get some food for my cat at the vet's office, so I popped next door to Goodwill when I was done, just on the off chance they had any really good books in stock. It turns out they were having a sale, and all books were $2 for as many as you could fit in a bag. TheLorax and I went nuts yesterday and got three bags, which amounted to about 40 books. That's a pretty good bargain when you consider they normally charge $1 per book. Not only that, but they had some great books in stock. This is one of the ones we picked up.

Promised to cyber-librarian.

I received this in the mail yesterday from Canada. Thanks for the trade, Miss-Efficiency!!! I had this on my wish list to read as many Classics as possible. It has some water marks and the spine is getting loose, but it's still readable (with care).

c. 1949 -- 256 pages -- Paperback -- The Famous Novel of Life in the Future -- Complete and Unabridged -- #6 on Modern Library Reader's 100 Best Novels list -- #8 on BBC's "The Big Read" Top 100 Books -- #8 on BookCrossing 2004 Favorites list -- #15 on BookCrossing 2006 Favorites list -- #10 on BookCrossing 2008 Favorites list -- on my nephew's Top 20 Favorites list -- #9 on Radcliffe Publishing 100 Best Novels list -- #13 on Modern Library Board's 100 Best Novels list

Back Cover: Which one will YOU be in the year 1984 ...
* Proletarian -- Considered inferior and kept in total ignorance, you'll be fed lies from the Ministry of Truth, eliminated upon signs of promise or ability!
* Police Guard -- Chosen for lack of intelligence but superior brawn, you'll be suspicious of everyone and be ready to give your life for Big Brother, the leader you've never even seen!
* Party Member - Male -- Face-less, mind-less, a flesh-and-blood robot with a push-button brain, you're denied love by law, taught hate by the flick of a switch!
* Party Member - Female -- A member of the Anti-Sex League from birth, your duty will be to smother all human emotion, and your children might not be your husband's!

Unbelievable? You'll feel differently after you've read this best-selling book of forbidden love and terror in a world many of us may live to see!

I finished reading this today. It was interesting, but I probably wouldn't read it again.

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I'm mailing this today to LitaPumpkin in WI ... as a surprise RABCK ... with some help from rabck.com and Cliff's wishlist sites. Happy Reading!!!

I got this in the mail yesterday, thanks to a very kind cyber_librarian! I just started reading it and it seems good so far. I'll probably give it to a friend when I'm done with it.

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Left on the shelves of the Never Ending Book Sale.