I guess they were done memorizing it as a 'How To ' manual.....................
Guess it’s already been put in the shredder?
Hope they did not “Bundy” the book, lol.
Where is Lt Bookman?
Or Mrs DeGroot?
65 years ago I suspect Oregon wasn’t the lefty bastion that it is today.
Portland? Returned to a d democrat hellhole library?
They’ll probably sell the book then buy drag queen sex education books for first graders... How disgusting,.
When I was a student at Oregon State in the 1980s, I used to run up to Portland at the beginning of each term to see how many of the required textbooks I could find in the Multnomah County Library. For a few bucks in fines, I could save many dollars by not having to purchase vastly overpriced textbooks.
I did end up keeping one and paying the library what they asked for it. $15.50 bought me a $50 book, and I still have it (though I haven’t opened it in many years).
Garland will send in a SWAT team to arrest this guy.
The librarians need to read it, but these brainwashed drones will probably hallucinate that Trump is O’Brien.
Fine free. Oregon library. Figures.
Or are fine free libraries, in many places, now a thing?
I have first editions of 1984, Atlas Shrugged and The Gulag Archipelago. Sadly none of these are signed by the authors. None were checked out of the library so I don’t have to return them.
The last man in Oregon to appreciate the prescience of Orwell’s 1984 is, sadly, 86 years old.
Go to the library book sale, they dump books by the ton, including the very ones that we would most want people to read.
For some reason history books and biographies of true American heroes and leaders become outdated, especially the ones that we would most like to see people read.
Buried in here somewhere was my post about returning the EXACT SAME BOOK (though not a first edition) to my Jr. High School library 28 years late (1975-2013). Small world.
When I went into the Army I told my girlfriend to go to the library and turn all the books I had checked out for her and her kids. She promised to do it over and over.
Of course, she ghosted me in Basic and when I finally got back to town I had several hundred dollars in fines. The library understood and waived it since I didn’t even have the books.
I was kind of mad but the next thing I heard was that she was a junkie on the streets so that took away any grudge feelings I had.
Who needs the operations manual when you can observe it in real life?
“It was a bright, cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen...’’
Sign your real name, WP, you chickinshit commie.
Would be amazing to find first editions that the commies read in order to censor the book.
In the 1950s, Polish poet Czeslaw Miosz worked for the Communist government as a “cultural official.” When he read 1984 he was blown away by such an accurate depiction of life under communism written by someone who had never experienced it.