Status Updates From Down and Out in Paris and L...

Aka "Kitchen confidential: 1930s edition"

Hmm not bad so far

"Theirs is a job which offers no prospects, is intensely exhausting, and at the same time has not a trace of skill or interest; the sort of job that would always be done by women if women were strong enough."

Really enjoying this

I'm already really enjoying this, it's over a year ago that I last read one of Orwell's books, and I forget how much I liked his writing.

"In pratica a nessuno importa se un lavoro è utile o inutile, produttivo o parassitico; l'unico elemento richiesto è che sia redditizio."

Chapter XXII seems relevant as ever about class relations and views on work and leisure.

I swear to you, messieurs et dames, that if it were not for that accursed law that robs us of our liberty, I would have murdered her at that moment.

يا حال البؤس

Haven't enjoyed a book as much as this in a long time! Up late on a school night

Peraturan bermain catur adalah sama seperti peraturan bercinta dan berperang, dan jika kamu boleh memenangi salah satunya, kamu boleh memenangi yang lain juga.

Rushing to bed each night to read this...haven't felt this way about a book for a long time!

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.

Chapter XXII is so on point

Chapter XIV - just Orwell throwing shade on women and Americans

"It is altogether curious, your first contact with poverty...You thought it would be quite simple; it is extraordinarily complicated. You thought it would be terrible; it is merely squalid and boring. It is the peculiar lowness of poverty that you discover first; the shifts that it puts you to, the complicated meanness, the crust-wiping."

So far I'm relating his experience of being poor (through personal experience). What disturbed me a lot more is Charlie's description of how the best day of his life was when he raped a young peasant girl sold into slavery going on to mention that moment as the "best day of my life". It's no secret that slums also contain heartless c*nts willing to do harm.

did most the reading on the train. Just finished the Paris part and can already say this will be one of my favourite books this year. seriously everyone needs to read this.

bab 22, mulai terlihat kesamaan point of view antara camus dan orwell

Time to take a nice deep breath and start Aprils reading challenge fresh

30

"Bueno, mon cher monsieur l'Anglais, ¿puedo informarle que es usted un hijo de puta?"

الروتين بتاع حياته مابيفكرنيش بأى حاجة خالص :D

Perhaps I'll finish this by the time I'm back cat sitting at the house of the friend from whom I borrowed it ?

Classic Orwell, just bloody brilliant.

هذه أول مرة لي في قراءة هذا النوع من الكتب ، تبدو المقدمة مملة بعض الشيء لكن ما إن تبدأ القصة الأساسية لاتستطيع أن تتوقف .

50

"Otelde calismak bana uykunun gercek degerini ogretti; tipki ac kalmanin bana yemegin gercek degerini ogretmesi gibi. Uyku sirf fiziksel bir ihtiyac olmaktan cikmisti; sehvetli bir seydi, rahatlamadan ziyade bir sefahatti."

yaaay! mulai membaca lagi.