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I finally finished this a few weeks ago after taking over a year of starts and stops. Parts of it really upset me like the guy talking about raping the underage prostitute near the beginning.

Other parts make me wonder if it is all a lie. I don't know. I was raised blue collar and have met a lot of the characters he describes, and they have the ring to truth to them.

What did you think of it /lit/?

>> No.11090401

>the guy talking about
Telling rather than showing

>> No.11090734

>>11090401
The narrator is supposed to be Orwell, so it can only show things he plausibly saw.

>> No.11090743

The whole
>there should be work camps with free prostitutes for homeless people

>> No.11090748

>The food we were given was no more than eatable, but the patron was not mean about drink; he allowed us two litres of wine a day each, knowing that if a plongeur is not given two litres he will steal three.
gr8 book

>> No.11091497

I enjoyed this book immensely. Loved the part about the French chefs and (to paraphrase) how the dirtier and more chaotic the kitchen, the better and more fine-dining the food is.

>> No.11091513

>>11091497
As a veteran line cook i can attest to the accuracy. Worked at a place Obama ate in and the head chef was like a caricature of nasty French man.

>> No.11091521

>>11089725
It's quite removed from your time. Read it to get a glimpse of certain aspects of certain societies at a certain time, not to moralise it backwards in time.

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>>11090401
It's literally a work of journalism you faggot.

>> No.11093476

>>11090401
When the guy comes into a bar and gets fucking hammered, mate. Of course he's telling rather than showing, Orwell is showing a guy telling.

>>11089725
It rung pretty authentically for me, I wouldn't be surprised if it was mostly exactly what happened. The hierarchies of restaurant kitchens, the restaurant that seems to never open, the stringing along of people for potential work, the doss houses, the pavement art, it feels very genuine.
I really liked the story about the French guy who prayed to a picture of who he believed to be a saint and he preyed for some extra money, and he gets it by pawning off something he doesn't need, but he finds out he prayed to a photo of his landlord or something. I remember it vaguely but I found it pretty funny

>> No.11093481

Loved the parts in Paris. Goes downhill when it shifts to London.