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Debbie Croysdale
NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR by George Orwell

Picked book cos missed the lecture on it at university. Meaty prose opposed to minimum expletives of shorter sentences in recent modern fiction. Follows inner workings of protagonist’s mind in a bonkas sadistic dystopian society & smacks of sinister warnings for the future. Author highlights things...

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Malcolm Johnstone

I recently read Down and Out in Paris and London, which I definitely recommend. All about Orwell struggling to get by in those cities during the Depression. For all that, we see a quite funny side of Orwell and his writing.

Simon © Simon

Debbie Croysdale On that Note- If you look for similarities you can see this one is a current event.

Animal Farm G.Orwell is the Pen Name

Manor Farm is like any other English farm, expect for a drunken...

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Debbie Croysdale

@Simon Thanks for info on Animal Farm. @Malcolm Thanks for info on Down and Out in Paris and London. I've got those two titles on my must read list!

Sarah Jane Mc Carthy

Great review, Debbie, I really enjoyed it. Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm were life-perspective changing books for me. Those, along with Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451...

Michael Dzurak

A great book. I read it when bed-ridden with a flu and I think it made my flu last longer.

Neither Animal Farm nor Brave New World are much more hopeful, but Fahrenheit 451 ends with a tinge of hope.

Malcolm Johnstone
Adventures In The Screen Trade - William Goldman

This one is a classic for a reason. This book is the first (of at least 3?) books by the author and screenwriter William Goldman. He won both Best Original Screenplay (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and Best Adapted Screenplay (All The President's Men) Oscars as well as both the original book a...

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Lindbergh E Hollingsworth

Excellent book, it is! I read it in the late 80's and then again in the 90's.

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