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Anonymous Fri Jun 12 10:34:10 2015 No.6678771 [Reply] [Original]

What is the best thing that George Orwell ever wrote? Essays, novels, reviews, whatever the fuck.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 12 10:35:13 2015 No.6678776 "I'm a fucking trash writer" - George Orwell

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 12 10:37:01 2015 No.6678788 Down and Out in Paris and London

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 12 10:38:01 2015 No.6678794 >>6678776 >le only read animal farm and 1984 face

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 12 10:42:59 2015 No.6678807 >>6678771 his essay on how to make a nice cup of tea sucked so not that

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 12 10:44:00 2015 No.6678812 >>6678771 >bbc CUCK U C K

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 12 10:57:34 2015 No.6678841 Confessions of a Book Reviewer is great.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 12 11:00:08 2015 No.6678843 Great essayist. Read the one on Dickens, the one on Tolstoy/King Lear, the one on Wodehouse... Just read the Essays tbh.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 12 11:06:23 2015 No.6678859 >>6678771 It's the Paris half of Down and Out in Paris and London. It's terrifically funny and interesting.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 12 11:22:31 2015 No.6678919 >>6678859 This. Also Homage to Catalonia.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 12 11:24:11 2015 No.6678924 >>6678919 Only if you skip the political chapters.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 12 11:26:17 2015 No.6678934 >>6678859 >>6678919 I'll add his experiences in the mining towns in The Road to Wigan Pier. Being a coal miner must have been unbelievably hard.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 12 11:26:54 2015 No.6678936 >>6678859 The Diary of a Supertramp is good too if you liked Down & Out.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 12 13:20:00 2015 No.6679356 Anyone ever read his Burmese Days? It's sitting on my shelf but I haven't had the enthusiasm to pick it up.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 12 13:21:09 2015 No.6679358 >>6678924 The whole book, then?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 12 13:23:05 2015 No.6679365 Down and Out in Paris and London

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 12 13:26:56 2015 No.6679389 >>6679358 No, just the chapters where he's not talking about his personal experiences. He even prefaces the first political chapter by suggesting that people skip it if they don't care.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 12 16:39:29 2015 No.6679967 >>6679356 kek I'm in the same position It's just been sitting there for something like 7 years now.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 12 18:28:29 2015 No.6680338 >>6678771 best Orwell essays >pacifism and the war >notes on nationalism >shooting an elephant >the sporting spirit >politics and the English language >>6678776 >>>/out/

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 12 18:36:10 2015 No.6680361 >>6680338 > politics and the English language This. A must-read for all humans.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 12 19:06:00 2015 No.6680465 I liked his essay on Henry Miller. Inside the Whale.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 12 19:16:09 2015 No.6680498 >>6680465 Completely forgot about that one, that one is pure class. Anybody read Coming Up For Air? How is it?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 12 19:38:56 2015 No.6680619 File: 153 KB, 729x729, WiganCowboy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Spike, The Lion and the Unicorn and, of course, Shooting an Elephant.