I used to be a huge 1984 fan. Trying to reread it last year, though, was a bit of a mistake. It is dryly written and repetitive. There's little value in it beyond the description of the Oceanic society itself. Already knowing that too well, I didn't have any motivation for getting through the book.
Wait, wait. Super communist? It's a nationalistic totalitarian state! You're confusing opposites.
Yeah, it was kind of written as a prediction of the future considering the general trends in the mainstream US society of the time. Which, in many cases, haven't changed at all since the 1860s, much less 1948.