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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Excellent book! I love Orwell and I think it’s too bad that most people only go as far as reading Animal Farm and 1984.

  He could be funny as well (even while being insightful). Coming Up for Air has some great critiques of the direction Britain was going in before the war, and was fairly prescient about what was to come, while also being extremely funny. It’s too bad most people aren’t aware of that side of his writing.

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  • squid_slime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Down and Out had me audible laughing at points mostly in the bistro or the communist waiter who was drinking all the milk to spite the restaurant.

    Sadly Orwell’s 1984 and animal farm are both misused as properganda by right wingers whilst skipping over Orwell’s own political ideas.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The communist waiter part is definitely one of my favorites.

      His essay Shooting an Elephant should be, in my opinion, required reading in schools. It’s probably the best anti-colonialist essay I’ve ever read.

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      • squid_slime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Thanks for getting me on to Coming Up for Air, half way through and its a nice steady pace. Shooting an Elephant will be my next read.

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