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    <body><![CDATA[Orwell is a central figure in Nandy's Intimate Enemy.  His &quot;Shooting an Elephant&quot; demonstrates Orwell's ambivalence towards colonialism.  But Burmese days struck me as very pointed.  I was so pleased for Orwell.  <br/><br/>By the way, Orwell's essay, &quot;Politics and the English Langua...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3470826">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is extraordinary that I haven’t read Burmese Days before. I owe my thirst for colonial novels an apology. However, better later than never to bump into a classic. Orwell’s book flashes qualities of Bates in descriptions of Burman climate, wildlife and living circumstances, plus adds highly en...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39668395">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In George Orwell's essay &quot;Why I Write,&quot; he says that his first published work of fiction, Burmese Days (1934), is the kind of book that he aspired to write at the age of sixteen when a passage from Milton's Paradise Lost sent &quot;shivers down [his] backbone.&quot; Specifically, Orwell sa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28323325">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My god. Orwell is a comedian! Who knew? Aspects that are funny in a dark dark dark way. Loved it! Flory is hilarious - Imagine meeting the love of your life while trying to save her from a raging buffalo and then giving her a tiger skin that ends up reeking her house to high heavens. I mean talk abo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3214431">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In Burmese Days, George Orwell comments on society and imperialism.  The story is based around U Po Kyin, a magistrate, and Dr Veraswami. Each wants an affiliation to the European club. Their dispute ends up drafting a British timber merchant, John Florey and something happens. But I’m not going t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76989345">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I never would have picked this book up had it not been for a friend's recommendation.  I tried reading it a couple of times and never got very far until a concentrated burst of determination got me past the first hundred pages.  I would say that I'm glad I finally did.<br/><br/>One of the best (an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62497993">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Once into this book, it's a &quot;can't stop 'til I finish&quot; book.  After reading Emma Larkins &quot;Finding Orwell,&quot; Burmese Days was a fascinating combination of Orwell's personal life, his passion and convictions and an amazing historically fictional account of British colonial days in B...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48456242">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was more than a little impressed with this book but then I realized on the face of it I had no reason to be. Had I recalled such gems as Down and Out in Paris and London (wherein, as a young person, I learned about restaurant kitchens... and refused to eat in restaurants for at least two weeks unt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44209840">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book sucked. Nothing happened to no one and they were miserable.<br/><br/><br/>Quotes:<br/><br/>&quot;In the dark evening, after a quite idle day, one's ennui reaches a pitch that is frantic, suicidal. Work, prayer, books, drinking, talking - they are all powerless against it; it can only ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34624128">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Whilst reading this you should keep in mind that George Orwell had just returned from a stint in India. All other fiction and non-fiction I've read about the sunset of the British Empire tell similar accounts.<br/><br/>It's for this reason that this is called a semi-autobiographical account and you ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31851655">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[my favorite quotes:<br/><br/>'Of course I don't deny,' Flory said, 'that we modernise this country in certain ways. We can't help doing so. In fact, before we've finished we'll have wrecked the whole Burmese national culture. But we're not civilising them, we're only rubbing our dirt onto them. Wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24868701">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Panas terik, keringat tanpa henti dan depresi, demikian kesanku ketika membaca buku ini. Mungkin saja demikian, karena aku memang sedang sakit kuning kala itu, tapi di pihak lain Orwell memang dituduh sebagai seorang misantrop. <br/><br/>Kali ini Orwell benar-benar tidak memberikan kasihan bagi pe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6270285">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[George Orwell once derided Graham Greene for writing novels set in Africa that had hardly any black characters at all.  In this, Greene revealed his debt to Conrad (whom he self consciously mimicked without the anti-Imperialist critique.  But in Burmese Days, Orwell revisits Conrad's theme of deridi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35916010">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The conventional wisdom is that Orwell was still finding his voice as an author when he wrote this semi-semi-autobiographical novel about the degenerate managers of a British rubber plantation in Burma (He was coming off of a long stint as an imperial policeman there) and thus cranked out a Somerset...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2200959">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Burmese Days chronicles the beginning of the end for the British Raj in Burma and British Imperialism in general. As the subtext of the story is the decline of a brutal empire, it is by no means a surprisingly violent book, but given the period in which it was first published, I had to remind myself...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23157870">more...</a>]]></body>
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