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A Good Place To Start
| Title | Votes | |
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| Animal Farm | 6 | |
| 1984 | 5 | |
| Down and Out in Paris and London | 1 |
A Bad Place To Start
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| 1984 | 1 | |
| Down and Out in Paris and London | 1 | |
| Keep The Aspidistra Flying | 1 |
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George Orwell
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Many people have turned away from Orwell because they were force-fed "1984" or "Animal Farm" in school. A better place to start might be with earlier works like "Down and Out in Paris and London," (1933) a gritty, colorful account of his struggles to survive in menial jobs as a young man. And his little-known early novels, like "Coming Up for Air," are graceful portraits of life in England between the wars, with no talking animals in sight.
lemuel January 29th, 2006 01:26 PM PST
1984 and Animal Farm are the standard Orwell books to read, but they are actually both pretty good. It has been a number of years but it may be time for me to reread 1984.
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LilyB January 27th, 2006 10:04 AM PST