Just curious here, what do people here think of George Orwell?

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57. I read it as a kid in the 80s (probably 1984, of course)

and was blown away. These days, however, I find 1984 to be far inferior to his essays and Down and Out in Paris and London. The latter is still very powerful, especially in light of the growing awareness of entrenched poverty and the increasingly vast gap between the wealthy and the rest of us. I think for most readers the particular bogeymen of 1984 faded away when the old Soviet system died.