i did not understand the explicit content. very hard. not surprised they want to ban it.

I haven't read it since I was in high school, but certain images have stayed with me through the years; from the relatively mundane (the smell of boiling cabbage in a hallway) to the nightmarish (the snarling rat trying to get at Winston Smith's face through the bars of a cage). An immensely powerful, prescient indictment of totalitarianism that both left wingers and right wingers believe is about "those other people". Maybe they should be putting a copy of this in the drawers of hotels instead of the Gideon Bible.

"Pro-communist?" This is me, rolling on the ground, holding my sides laughing. Did any of the numb-nuts in Jackson County who wanted to ban this actually read it? Oh, sorry, stupid question. Book burners can't normally read.

Only an illiterate, fearful, drooling moron would ban this 20th century masterpiece that rails against the very thinking and philosophy that would ban it in the first place- look up 'irony' in the dictionary. . .

Pro- communist? This is simply ludicrous.

This book is excellent. I've read it several times, and I never seem to get tired of it. Not to state the obvious, but it always seems that books that get down to the real, are deemed dangerous. 1984 sends a powerful message, that has transcended time. Perhaps Bush the younger and his cronies should read this novel.

This. Book. Scared. Me. Screw Stephen King. This book makes you look at society and reocgnize the similarities between Big Brother and The Man. The fact that this book was challenged and bans only proves that.

THIS BOOK BLOWS BALLS AND IT SHOULD BE BURNED

I imagine this book was banned in dictatorships and communist countries, to prevent their oppressed populations from comparing the ideas in the book to their present situation. I was mildly surprised that it was also banned in Jackson County, Florida. Or maybe I shouldn't be surprised, it IS Florida after all. The sexual content is not explicit in any way (at least by today's standards), and it was definitely not promoting communism or fascism, as any person NOT from Florida could plainly see. I have read 1984 at least ten times in my life, and I truly believe that I am more intelligent for having done so.

I assume this was banned in the USSR and other totalitarian states? Probably for coming too close to the reality of everyday life there.