Caroline Norrington profile
Place of birth: Australia
Now living: Darwin, Australia
3 favourite authors
- JRR Tolkien
- Margo Lanagan
- Neal Stephenson
3 favourite books
- Sideshow by Sheri S Tepper
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
3 favourite films
- Fight Club
- Titanic
- Gladiator
Caroline Norrington's 2 reviews
1984 by George Orwell
Winston lives in a bleak, totalitarian world where his job is to rewrite newspaper articles to support present political propaganda. He has no joy and no love. His world is grimy, regimented, and callously violent. His conversations with other people are functional remarks or rituals of allegiance to Big Brother and the Party. Armed with ubiquit...
10.0/10
Blindness by Jose Saramago
An illness spreads through an unnamed city. It has only one symptom: blindness. It comes without fanfare, pain, or warning. One moment a man waits in his car at the traffic lights, the next his world has dissolved to white.What follows is a riveting portrayal of the best and worst of human nature.If Orwell’s 1984 was the horr...
9.4/10