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Not a book, but you might want to watch Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" [0][1]. It's one of the the closest efforts I've seen to catching what, in my mind, is the 'look' of Orwell's 1984.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1



I always thought of "Brazil" as "Monty Python's '1984'".




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