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I found Down and Out a bit annoying in lots of ways, I couldn't help thinking of that line from Common People "if you call your dad he could stop it all."
It's fine when it's more investigative and reporting on conditions that most people would have had no clue about - but also quite irritating at times.
If you want to be irritated even more by Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying has an even more infuriating and self-denying main character, and an unbelievably tolerant love interest.
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I’ve just read Akala’s Natives and Orwell’s Down and Out, both very good in their own right.
I enjoyed Down and Out in London and Paris, there is something very charming about it. I thought it was an easier read than The Road To Wigan Pier and you can see how the later came to be from reading it. Also, having previously worked as a chef for a good long while it was funny to see very little has changed in almost a century.
I’m halfway through Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall - very good so far. I picked these up this morning for the next month or so. Thanks for the recommendation @EB