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Why I Write
Review: Four essays, the first and namesake one being Why I Write, then The Lion and the Unicorn, A Hanging, and finally Politics and the English Language. All excellent, all way more applicable to the present day than I or anyone should be comfortable with. The first line from the second essay is as follows:…
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Burmese Days
Review: Outstanding novel of British Colonial Burma. All the protagonists are thoroughly dislikeable. Gin soaked, heat baked, pathetic lives playing out in a dirty, remote hill station in Burma’s jungle. Once again Orwell proves to be the voice of conscience for the 20th century. SImply an amazing piece of writing, yet it is never much…
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Anthem
Review: Magnificent. A beautifully crafted dark vision of a dark future. I feel no need to write a manifesto or donate portion of my comic book sales to the Ayn Rand Foundation (true story, there is a dude on eBay that does that. Makes a point of telling you in the item description. I bought…