/lit/ - Literature

i learnt to hate orwell
passionatelly.

pic related
it's cutesy piggy snowball's red terror

>>1048930
uh waht does the red terror hav eto do with any of this

>>1048930
More like napoleon

I haven't read the book yet, but I do own it.

I think I'll read it Wednesday. It shouldn't take more than one sitting

dion't sage my thread fucker

>>1048926
Eh, don't hate him. Just don't be silly enough to think that his fiction is the definitive guide to politics

>>1048949

Thanks, we really value your input you conceited fool.

>>1048912
Why you do this?

Anyway, Animal Farm was just the story of the rise of Soviet Russia, but with farm animals. That's all it is and that's all I got from it. The one illustrated by Ralph Steadman is great in my opinion.

>>1048959
You sound rather concieted yourself, kiddo.
If you don't have anything nice to say, get the fuck out

Can't you guys stop arguing and trolling for one second

Yo Deanvatar i saw you on adv

>>1048979
nope

>>1048982
Noticed. Seems like whenever I go to a different board for a change I run into you. Kinda weird, actually

>>1048984
Ok well let mej sut say I'm sick of all the trolling going on in my threads it's reidicilous I don't want to see it amyomore

That is weird huh

I learned I'm a huge Orson Welles

>>1048994
that's not bvery funny beut i can aimagine you snickeiring as you postit

>>1049000

No, I was snickering at your inability to spell.

>>1049012
>implying i'm unable to spell

>uh waht does the red terror hav eto do with any of this
>Ok well let mej sut say I'm sick of all the trolling going on in my threads it's reidicilous I don't want to see it amyomore
>dion't sage my thread fucker
>that's not bvery funny beut i can aimagine you snickeiring as you postit

I wasn't implying anything. I was stating fact.

i don't spee yiour point

>>1048947
no. use google.
>>1048967
>Anyway, Animal Farm was just the story of the rise of Soviet Russia, but with farm animals.
no. it's a simplistic fairytale with an evil piggy and a good piggy. but there are no good piggies to politics.
the revolution was not betrayed by stalin, it was still-born.

>>1049024
You don't "spee" it huh?

That's probably why you learned everything you know about politics from Animal Farm.

PS: Not really something to be proud of or to tout as an accomplishment on /lit/.

pig man bigf man, haha!

I learned pretty much about politics from Orwell but not from Animal Farm but from Homage to Catalonia and his Essays.

I learned politics from actual books on politics, like, dozens of them, during my studies. Orwell is an excellent writer still, Animal Farm and Homage to Catalonia and his essays are great and a fervent plea for never forgetting that you're still dealing with living and breathing and feeling human beings, but if you want to learn about the actual conception and mechanisms of politics instead of merely (and admittedly great) impressive one-liners, you need to read non-fiction.

anyone else learnt all they know about the world from the Bible?

>>1048930
The Red Terror and the Great Terror (Purge) were not the same thing.
Just my two cents.