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Chargement... The collected essays, journalism and letters of George Orwell, Volumes I - IV (original 1968; édition 1968)par Sonia; Angus,ian (Eds) Orwell (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell [4-volume set] par George Orwell (1968)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Probably the best collection for absorbing the critical discipline and evolving politics at the heart of Orwell's writing, the model for the 20th century. ( ) I really wanted to love this book. Several people told me that I would enjoy this book. It was really just okay. I usually ignore the hype when it comes to bestsellers. I tried to give this book a chance, I really did. When I started reading it, I think it took me about a week just to get through the first chapter (and I am a VERY fast reader). I don't know if it was just the translation. I have read other books that were translated from Swedish and LOVED them; but, this one was hard to get through. It was filled with violent acts against women and characters that I really wanted to like but couldn't. The story itself was interesting, I won't say otherwise, but I just didn't care enough about what happened to most of the characters. I even started reading the second in the trilogy and I was still left without a sense of caring about the characters and what happened to them. Perhaps it is the author's verbosity. Maybe if the books weren't so full of information that, while I suppose it is relevant to the story, really took away from the sense of story telling and instead seemed like something of a manual rather than a story being told. On the one hand, the mystery is relatively interesting and the 'girl' of the title is an unusual character, so I can see why so many people latched onto this bestseller. On the other, had this book not been pressed into my hands by an enthusiastic coworker, I would never have finished it. I have a good stomach for violence, but I need more than 'relatively interesting' and 'unusual' to deliberately set out to read a book with quite this much. (I rather suspected this would be the case when I noticed the sections were all headed by statistics about violence against women in Sweden.) Potentially spoilery lament - aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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