[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by bushesandbriars

That book makes me suicidal, and I wish I was kidding. There's something about the way that book ends that is just so--for lack of a better word--final. Massive carnage and death would be cheerier. But enough of that.

I'm with you. That book just about kills me. Granted, I haven't read it since high school and I've been out of high school for four years now, but it still haunts me. And there was definitely something about Winston and Julia. I was never so involved with a romance or a relationship between two people in a general sense in a novel until I read about those two. It tore me apart to read about the two of them being torn apart. I remember that I had to read it for class and all my classmates hated the book. It was the same thing in ninth grade when we all had to read Animal Farm, which I love.