DBWI: Which Novel In The Big Brother Trilogy Is Your Favourite?

Would it be 1984, published in 1949?
1973, Published in 1955?
or 1995, Published in 1959?

My Favorite would be 1995. I thought the first two were grim, but 1995 is as dark as it gets.

OOC: In this TL, George Orewell lived until the early 1960's. 1973 is a prequel to 1984, and 1995 is the sequel.
 
1984 was raw, relevant, convicting, unexpected. Both subsequent books were, well, repeats. I admire that he was able to continue commenting on current issues. I really liked 1995's satire on British imperialism in response to Suez. But Really, the genius of 84 is hard to match.
 
I enjoyed 1973 a lot especailly because it gave us a bit more of a background on how the war started and when exactly the revolution happened. I agree however on the satire of 1995, I really was ecstatic when I read the part about the Cuban Revolution crisis reflected in the "New Revolution".
 
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Something that is interesting was the prescient nature of 1973 with its wicked condemnation of the Army/McCarthy HUAC hearings. It is also interesting to see how the novel predicted the creation of the "Silent Majority" and the "Hardhat Riots" of the 1970s, to create artificial support for the Vietnam War....

As for the novel 1995, I feel it suffers the same problems of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and the Foundation trilogy by Issac Asimov is that it proposes the idea that terrorism and withdrawal from society are viable options for a political movement. As Al-Qaeda and the Taliban have shown us, committing acts of terror instantly make it impossible to withdraw from the world stage....
 
I like 1995 the best. It's also amazingly prophetic depicting the collapse of Oceania causing mass genocides and war much like Yugoslavia and having the character wish that the dictatorship had not collapsed.
 
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