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Orwell’s prose has its place (see E.g. Homage to Catalonia) but that place isn’t in a novel like 1984. The tone is too bloodless and journalistic, I find it lacks the necessary affect to make the book what it should be. Classic formal error.
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I haven't read 1984 in at least 10 years I don't think. The stuff of his I've read recently that I've enjoyed the most has been Homage To Catalonia and Down and Out in Paris and London which are more journalistic so you might have a point!
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If Orwell had cared more about his prose, he would have started his story in October, and made that first sentence of 1984 more musical.
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I don't know about "shits all over 1984"! I haven't read that since I was a teenager but from what I remember they're very different (other than the subject matter being very similar). I do need to re-read that and A Brave New World at some point.