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WormsRoxanne t1_itjz63f wrote

That book is great. Got me into Orwell generally as more than the two books you have to read in high school. Down And Out in Paris And London is like Restaurant Confidential 80 years earlier.

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throwawayinthe818 t1_itl3kdw wrote

Love that book. “It is altogether curious, your first contact with poverty. You have thought so much about poverty—it is the thing you have feared all your life, the thing you knew would happen to you sooner or later; and it, is all so utterly and prosaically different. You thought it would be quite simple; it is extraordinarily complicated. You thought it would be terrible; it is merely squalid and boring.”

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chrispd01 t1_itltb2h wrote

A great read. I had a job washing dishes in high school and discovered that one. I managed to get most of my stoner colleagues to actually read it ….

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[deleted] t1_itmcc3s wrote

It's funny because, to this day, posh boys like Orwell move to the very same parts of the East End he did to play at poverty just like he did.

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