matt's review of Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
matt's review
rating:
bookshelves:
fictions-of-the-big-it,
satire,
social-crit,
underrated
status:
Read in April, 2008
I really loved this book.
You know how when the writer decides to put you through a fairly unsympathetic character and you find that he shares some of your own traits and such....only to be kind of depressed and oddly fascinated by the experience?
This is one of the unknown Orwell books, and for that reason it should be read by everyone who's gotten into the bigger hits and really gotten into them.
The whole point is that it's not being 'artistic' to decide to mope around and hate everything. It's difficult to free yourself from the vanities and the hypcricies of the society around you. But, as the man said, if you try sometimes...you might find...you get what you need.
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