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1486054

Truman Capote !kwxizAOFlk Sun Jan 23 15:12:52 2011 No.1486054 [Reply] [Original]

What does /lit/ think of this book?

Orwell's finest?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 23 15:13:52 2011 No.1486056 Probably. The man was a brute. This is his least brutish work.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 23 15:16:52 2011 No.1486062 >>1486056 You mean it was his least violent? He wasn't violent. He shot at like one person and then instantly regretted it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 23 15:18:52 2011 No.1486066 >>1486062 Violent behavior wasn't what I was alluding to at all. Just read the book OP. It's his best.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 23 15:20:52 2011 No.1486074 >>1486062 >brute=violent I love /lit/'s reading comprehension.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 23 15:21:52 2011 No.1486075 >>1486054 Read it, love it. Down and Out is my favourite of his by far though.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 23 15:28:52 2011 No.1486090 I read liked "Keep the Aspidistra Flying", a shame most Orwell fans haven't read it.

>>	Truman Capote !kwxizAOFlk Sun Jan 23 15:32:52 2011 No.1486097 >>1486075 Down and out was great. I think his style is far more suited to non-fiction journalistic writings.

>>	Truman Capote !kwxizAOFlk Sun Jan 23 15:33:52 2011 No.1486098 >>1486090 That is my least favourite Orwell text.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 23 15:35:52 2011 No.1486103 >>1486097 >>1486097 >>1486097 Agreed. His fiction can be didactic and preachy.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 23 15:46:52 2011 No.1486121 I've always maintained that this is his best, you feel less like he's hitting you around the head with his politics, it's more subtle.