My favorite book is Nineteen Eighty-Four, by English author George Orwell.
Oh yeah, that book is pretty awesome. I read it a long time ago. When was it first published again?
Well, it was actually published in 1949.
Wow, so long ago. The themes still apply today. If anything it is even more frightening. 
Yeah, definitely. Just like in the book, our current government is not interested in the good of others, it is interested solely in power.
Yeah, the book really scared me. Do you know if there was another book to make the story a series?
I do not believe that there was.
Okay, what else do you know about the novel? I read it so long ago
Well, through the "thought police", the government in the book persecuted independent thinking. What a scary thought.