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Just finished reading this for the first time.

I was particularly emotionally struck when Orwell describes his thoughts after he is shot through the neck and is expecting death at any moment.

He wrote about how frustrated he was at being forced out of this world for which seemed so suited and where he could create so much happiness and political and social development.

It saddens me to think that he was probably thinking the same thing when he was lying on his cold hospital bed and feeling the artery in his lung burst at the age of 46.

Imagine all the books he could have written had he not been so cruelly and pointlessly taken from the world.

Feels bad man.

>> No.882965
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882965

My favourite author of all time.

Fuck yeah, Orwell thread.

>> No.882978

I know what you mean OP.

But instead of wallowing in misery we should cherish what he did give us in his severed lifespan.

>> No.882996

It's a sad idea, but it's probably true OP.

>> No.883005

>>882965

This is such a cool picture of him.

>> No.883006

You must be mistaken OP. Orwell only wrote two books, 1984 and Animal Farm. Everyone knows that.

>> No.883017

I bought the Complete Novels of George Orwell.

I've never read anything from him. Orwell is not such a required highschool reading in my country.

I should begin it in the coming months.

>> No.883021

>>883006

Don't forget his two essays, "Shooting Elephants" and "Hanging"

>> No.883024

Have you read Down and Out... That book had me cracking up and indignant so many times. Orwell was really great. His most popular books are in some ways his worst.

>> No.883031

>>883021
>shooting an elephant
>a hanging
fix'd

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>>883017

I'd recommend anything by him, except "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" and "A Clergyman's Daughter".

>> No.883041

>>883017
>Orwell is not such a required highschool reading in my country
Your country sucks.

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>>883031

>I can't handle extended jokes.

fix'd.

>> No.883059

>>883024

Yeah I did when I was 15, I don't think I've laughed so hard at a biography before or since.

It's his unique style of writing biographies as if they are narratives which is so enthralling.

>> No.883079

It never occured to me that there is no surviving record of his voice.

We have Tennyson croaking his way through Charge of the Light Brigade on an old recorder, but nothing of Orwell?

WTF. Though I imagine Chris Langham's impression is somewhat accurate.

>> No.883099

>>883079

Didn't he do the BBC eastern service during the war?

I'm surprised they didn't archive his radio broadcasts.

>> No.883110

>>883099

Yeah, which is so surprising.
There's nothing. How shit is that?

No lectures, no broadcasts, no programmes, nothing.

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>>883041
>there're other countries outside USA !??
fixed

>> No.883165

>>883110

Perhaps if he had managed to see the better half of the 20th century we would be able to listen to him.

>> No.883177

>>883113

>Orwell
>USA

>> No.883191

>>883177

I think he means English speaking countries, or something.

>> No.883195

>>883099
Wiki says he was a supervisor. And even if he did broadcast, it isn't as though he gave lectures on air or anything.