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So, I've read 1984 and Animal Farm. Where to go next on Orwell's books?
I was considering reading his Catalonia stuff. Is it any good?
Also, is it true that his early texts where very left leaning and he abandoned that ideology later?

>> No.17830470

>>17830454
He gets shot at by communists in Catalonia if that's anything to go by

>> No.17830486

>>17830454
His real name was blare wasn't it.
he had quite a few scumbag pedos as friends

>> No.17830493

>>17830454
Homage to Catalonia is good but not historically accurate

>> No.17830504

>>17830493
Could you elaborate?

>> No.17830510

>>17830454
My personal favourite is "A Clergyman's Daughter" but i don't think he ever really wrote a bad book.

>> No.17830558

I enjoyed The Road to Wigan Pier
1st half is his description of poor living conditions for the working class in Wigan.
2nd half is about the absolute state of the Socialist party in England and how it’s overrun with vegetarians proto-trannies and insufferable faggotry.

>> No.17830575

>>17830558
sounds like nothing has changed with state of socialist movements

>> No.17830692

>>17830558

What? Could he see into the future?

>> No.17830712

I enjoyed Homage to Catalonia.

>>17830493
Don't know about that, big lad, he's simply recounting his experiences. Don't see how you could claim that as being historically inaccurate.

>> No.17831378

>>17830470
i thought he was fighting with the communists
Then he wrote a book about how totalitarianism is bad

>> No.17831445

All his nonfiction books are worthwhile. Homage to Catalonia is one of the most remarkable books to come out of the 20th century. Down and Out is a fun classic. All his essays are entertaining; try 'The Spike' and 'Why I Write'. Maybe hold off on Wigan Pier until you're sure he's got your interest.
As for his novels, Burmese Days and A Clergyman's Daughter are not great novels, but they provide a great deal of insight into Orwell. The same could be said of Aspidistra, though I found it less interesting. Coming Up for Air is the first novel he wrote which is truly successful in what it tries to do.

>> No.17831480

>>17830510
It's considered his least significant novel, but by chance it was the first book of his that I read and I was absolutely hooked. Nice to see someone else appreciates it.

>>17831378
If you don't understand political nuance, do yourself a favor and don't try to understand the Spanish civil war.

>>17830493
He literally talks for several pages about how "this is not intended to be an accurate history of the war, just my own understanding of it based on my experience". What the fuck does he have to say to appease you people

>> No.17831570
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17831570

Take the Orwellpill, read it all.

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17831606

I have this edition on my shelf; never read it but I really like the cover art.

>> No.17831686

i started reading down and out in paris and london but stopped after 80 pages because it got boring. i wonder if the road to wigan pier is better.

>> No.17831710

>>17830470
>Stalinists
He's also chased out by Stalinist cops too. Pull that card anytime a Stalinist says "acab"

>> No.17831717

>>17831570
Orwell was so fucking based

>> No.17831721

>>17831606
it's pretty good but quite depressing

>> No.17831724

>>17831686
He gets philosophical about work later in. Def worth it just to get to those few pages and read them in context

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>>17831710
bro have you even read grover furr?

https://web.archive.org/web/20200812094236/https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/research/trotsky_maydays_preprint.pdf

>> No.17832080

>>17831686
If you didn't like Down and Out you probably won't like Wigan. The modern appeal is in a voyeuristic enjoyment of desperate poverty in an industrial setting.

>> No.17832965

>>17830454
Homage is BORING
Wigan Pier was good.

>> No.17832972

>>17830454
His letters are pretty nice and interesting

>> No.17832986

>>17830470
He got shot by a one of Franco's snipers.

>> No.17832996

>>17831717
Yeah he was also on the Nazi extermination list had they ever been able to take Britain

>> No.17833510

>>17832996
Holy fuck even baseder

>> No.17833513

>>17833510
And Stalinists retards try to paint him as a fascist