/lit/ - Literature

Yet to meet someone who dislikes this.

What does /lit/ think of this book?

Orwell's finest?

>>1119735

"A Clergyman's Daughter" and "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" were worse imo.

Pic related, it's my favourite Orwell.

>>988027

This book changed my life.

>>970993

It's one of my favourite books of all time.

I reread it constantly.

Orwell makes writing seem so easy, but it's so fucking difficult to write as beautifully yet sparingly as he does.

France loves it's writers because the French are so far up their own arses that they adore absolutely everything their awful culture shits out.

Ever wonder why French cinema is only big in France?

British writers are cherished and criticized alike in Britain, because the British feel no motivation through patriotism for crass cultural nepotism anymore.

Just finished reading this for the first time.

I was particularly emotionally struck when Orwell describes his thoughts after he is shot through the neck and is expecting death at any moment.

He wrote about how frustrated he was at being forced out of this world for which seemed so suited and where he could create so much happiness and political and social development.

It saddens me to think that he was probably thinking the same thing when he was lying on his cold hospital bed and feeling the artery in his lung burst at the age of 46.

Imagine all the books he could have written had he not been so cruelly and pointlessly taken from the world.

Feels bad man.