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NNadir

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7. I'm more than halfway through it the waiting room for my wife.

Reply to Sequoia (Reply #5)

Fri Apr 18, 2025, 01:50 PM

Apr 2025

It's an absolutely brilliant work, worthy of its title.

From the account of Orwell in Spain during the Spanish Civil War I fully understand the origins Animal Farm.

I especially enjoyed the repetition of the tale about FDR kicking Joseph P. Kennedy out of his house which I first read in Bechloss's work on the relationship between the Kennedys and the Roosevelts.

And of course the description of Churchill's finest hour is magnificent, how a hugely flawed man saved the world.

We live in a dark time, and it is a comfort to understand how all, seeming lost, isn't necessarily so. Good can win, with resolvr.

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"The key conclusion Orwell took away from his time in... [View all] NNadir Apr 2025 OP

The War against Free Will - the true G.O.P. target BoRaGard Apr 2025 #1

Good book. Orwell learned a lot in Burma. Most of the British officials there just reinforced their biases against Martin68 Apr 2025 #2

"We seem to be moving, drifting, steadily against our will... NNadir Apr 2025 #3

Hideous catastrophe is in the air jimmy the one Apr 2025 #10

Sounds like an interesting read. I have read KPN Apr 2025 #4

Excellent book, just finished reading it Sequoia Apr 2025 #5

I'm more than halfway through it the waiting room for my wife. NNadir Apr 2025 #7

Even Kipling got tired of glorifying the Empire ... or so I have read ... eppur_se_muova Apr 2025 #6

When I was in high school, a very long time ago, we used to have what were called "Declamation Projects." NNadir Apr 2025 #14

If only now was political fiction jimmy the one Apr 2025 #8

For all that - everything you say about him is true - Churchill had his "Finest Hour." NNadir Apr 2025 #15

"Political language--and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists Ping Tung Apr 2025 #9

What will the historians write about the period 2000-2030? Bluetus Apr 2025 #11

I sort of wonder whether the historical record will exist. Great and powerful nations fall, of course, but few fall... NNadir Apr 2025 #13

I prefer The Road to Wigan Pier Prairie Gates Apr 2025 #12

Ricks had nice things to say about "The Road to Wigan Pier," saying it was the first indication of Orwell becoming... NNadir Apr 2025 #16