false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178749948m/832138.jpg 509080 20 Insurance salesman George "Fatty" Bowling lives with his humorless wife and their two irritating children in a dull house in a tract development in the historyless London suburb of West Bletchley. The year is 1938; doomsayers are declaring that England will be at war again by 1941.<p> When George bets on an unlikely horse and wins, he finds himself with a little extra cash on his hands. What should he spend it on? "The alternatives, it seemed to me, were either a week-end with a woman or dribbling it quietly away on odds and ends such as cigars and double whiskeys." But a chance encounter with a poster in Charing Cross sets him off on a tremendous journey into his own memories--memories, especially, of a boyhood spent in Lower Binfield, the country village where he grew up. His recollections are pungent and detailed. Touch by touch, he paints for us a whole world that is already nearly lost: a world not yet ruled by the fear of war and not yet blighted by war's aftermath: <blockquote> 1913! My God! 1913! The stillness, the green water, the rushing of the weir! It'll never come again. I don't mean that 1913 will never come again. I mean the feeling inside you, the feeling of not being in a hurry and not being frightened, the feeling you've either had and don't need to be told about, or haven't had and won't ever have the chance to learn. </blockquote> Alas, George finds that even Lower Binfield has been darkened by the bomber's shadow. <p> Readers of <I>1984</I> will recognize Orwell's desperate insistence on the importance of the individual, of memory, of history, and of language; and they will find in Fatty Bowling one of Orwell's most engaging creations--a warm, witty, thinking, remembering Everyman in a world that is fast learning not to think and not to remember, and thus swiftly losing its mind. <I>--Daniel Hintzsche</I> 848305 book 1385 Coming Up for Air total:564|5:133|4:219|3:165|2:44|1:3| 564 2127 885 40 509080 0156196255 9780156196253 504 32 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1251827412m/509080.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509080.Coming_Up_for_Air 5 1 false Fri Sep 28 10:35:15 -0700 2007 Mon Mar 30 00:43:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 509080 0156196255 9780156196253 504 32 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1251827412m/509080.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509080.Coming_Up_for_Air 3 0 false Mon Mar 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 03 10:07:29 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 19:51:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 509080 0156196255 9780156196253 504 32 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1251827412m/509080.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509080.Coming_Up_for_Air 2 0 false Fri Aug 14 12:26:21 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 11:51:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 832138 0141185694 9780141185699 29 6 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178749948m/832138.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/832138.Coming_Up_For_Air 4 0 false Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 24 00:11:10 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 11 22:15:26 -0700 2009 1 Coming up for air! But there isn’t any air.

Being 45-years-old married man with a big belly and false teeth, George Bowling isn’t the kind of hero you ever want to appear in a novel. But damn, Bowling is so witty you cannot help getting attached to him. You might end up liking or hati...more...]]> 509080 0156196255 9780156196253 504 32 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1251827412m/509080.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509080.Coming_Up_for_Air 3 0 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 10:16:40 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 10:29:49 -0700 2008
I didn't see much s...more...]]> 509080 0156196255 9780156196253 504 32 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1251827412m/509080.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509080.Coming_Up_for_Air 3 0 false Fri Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 02 07:29:45 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 04 09:25:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 862878 0140182284 9780140182286 6 2 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178995077m/862878.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/862878.Coming_Up_for_Air 0 0 false Wed Aug 08 08:04:52 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 08 08:04:52 -0700 2007
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It struck me that perhaps a lot of people you see walking about are dead. We say that a man's dead when his heart stops and not before. It seems a bit arbitrary. After all, parts of your body don...more...]]> 509080 0156196255 9780156196253 504 32 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1251827412m/509080.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509080.Coming_Up_for_Air 2 0 false Thu Apr 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 15:44:04 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 12:02:27 -0700 2009
This is Orwell doing a good imitation of Orwell. Without the historical significance of "Nineteen Eighty-Four," or the pretense of proto-gonzo journalism in "Down and Out in Paris and London," Orwell just comes ...more...]]> 832138 0141185694 9780141185699 29 6 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178749948m/832138.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/832138.Coming_Up_For_Air 3 0 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Mon Sep 14 11:19:22 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 11:22:36 -0700 2009 1 It seems that by the time you are about 23 your life is over, you are too old to enjoy anything, everything is grey a...more...]]> 509080 0156196255 9780156196253 504 32 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1251827412m/509080.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509080.Coming_Up_for_Air 4 0 false Sat Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 17:43:48 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 08:19:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 862878 0140182284 9780140182286 6 2 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178995077m/862878.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/862878.Coming_Up_for_Air 3 0 false Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 11 20:38:34 -0800 2007 Sun May 31 12:05:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 509080 0156196255 9780156196253 504 32 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1251827412m/509080.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509080.Coming_Up_for_Air 5 0 false Fri Nov 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 07:25:11 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 27 22:55:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 509080 0156196255 9780156196253 504 32 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1251827412m/509080.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509080.Coming_Up_for_Air 4 0 false Fri May 15 06:23:57 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 06:26:42 -0700 2009 832138 0141185694 9780141185699 29 6 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178749948m/832138.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/832138.Coming_Up_For_Air 3 0 false Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Oct 27 07:26:16 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 04 03:51:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 509080 0156196255 9780156196253 504 32 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1251827412m/509080.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509080.Coming_Up_for_Air 3 0 false Fri Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 22:30:02 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 02:40:12 -0700 2009 Road to Wigan Pier. Oh--and he doesn't have man...more...]]> 509080 0156196255 9780156196253 504 32 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1251827412m/509080.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509080.Coming_Up_for_Air 3 0 false Sun Sep 16 00:26:02 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 16 00:26:02 -0700 2007
Buku ini juga merupakan kritikan pedas terhadap industrialisasi-moderni...more...]]> 509080 0156196255 9780156196253 504 32 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1251827412m/509080.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509080.Coming_Up_for_Air 5 0 false Wed Jun 10 12:29:54 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 12:32:35 -0700 2009 509080 0156196255 9780156196253 504 32 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1251827412m/509080.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509080.Coming_Up_for_Air 4 0 false Fri Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 17:40:47 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 10:19:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 509080 0156196255 9780156196253 504 32 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1251827412m/509080.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509080.Coming_Up_for_Air 3 0 false Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 11:05:37 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 11:29:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 509080 0156196255 9780156196253 504 32 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1251827412m/509080.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509080.Coming_Up_for_Air 5 0 false Sat Dec 27 23:06:51 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 23:10:05 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=832138