George Orwell: A Haul
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- The official Orwell Fangirl is here to show you some awesome stuff.
Where to find these things:
Animal Farm: www.bookdeposit...
1984: www.bookdeposit...
Keep the Aspidistra Flying: www.bookdeposit...
Shooting an Elephant: www.bookdeposit...
Politics and the English Language: www.bookdeposit...
Some Thoughts on the Common Toad: www.bookdeposit...
Decline of the English Murder: www.bookdeposit...
Books V Cigarettes: www.bookdeposit...
Why I Write: www.bookdeposit...
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1984 was my favorite novel for the longest time. My original copy from High School (let's not discuss how long ago that was) is falling apart and covered in highlighter and notes. I went on a blind date once where agreed to meet and we would both be carrying copies of 1984 since it was our favorite book.
George Orwell is my favorite author as well :)
Lear,Tolstoy and the fool is a brilliant essay beautifully discussed. His collected letters, essays and journalism is excellent because everything is in context as no biography of him could be written because George Orwell requested in his will that no biography of him should be written. Another great essay is confessions of a book reviewer
You should read the Road to Wigan Pier. It's a nonfiction book detailing the time he became a miner to understand the life of the British working class.
I've always liked George Orwell, but you've just inspired me to head to the book store and buy everything I can find!
I definitely need to check out more of Orwell's work. He can successfully wrinkle brains. XD THAT MUG. I WANT THAT MUG. I love the orange penguin book/merch designs but it's hard to find at my local bookstores :| I really want to get my hands on the "censored" penguin cover of 1984. XD Great haul!
Fun fact: George Orwell wrote A Road to Wigan Pier; just off a road across from Wigan Pier is The Orwell. Most people would call the area where the Orwell actually stands Wigan Pier, but the actual pier is a very small coal tipping ramp at the opposite side of the canal.
Aww,I genuinely find your passion towards Gorge Orwell so inspiring,I really need to read something by him.
doubleplusgood
ariel you're so awesome, your excitement is contagious and truly inspiring, I salute you and commend you for sharing
your passion with us. keep up the good work.
I feel the same way about George Orwell. I think he is a genious! I read Animal Farm and I'm currently reading 1984, but I already know that I want to read everything he has written. It's awesome to find someone who also like this author as much as I do.
Yes! I've read Animal Farm and 1984 and I can't wait to read more of his work. That man was a genius. And right now the author I'm totally obsessed with is Patrick Ness.
I absolutely love 1984- it's one of those books that I can remember every place I read it. I really really need to buy animal farm now!
George Orwell is my favorite author as well along with William Faulkner! :) both men were geniuses!
+V 3Pacstein There's more to genius other than the fields of science and math.
Jeremy Newcombe we need maths
I love George Orwell as well. I read Animals farm when I was in "middle school" and then I read it again in High school. I own a copy of 1984 but I haven't read it yet. I'm obsessed with J. D. Salinger. I have the same sort of relationship with him that you have with Orwell.
1984 is freaking genius, a master piece, i love it
That makes so much sense that Shepard Fairey designed those books! I love his work, those books included. I'd love to get to Animal Farm soon. Great picks!
"Politics and the english language" is an amazing essay. It's a bit too hard till you get to the middle but it's worth the struggle. It basically deals with the fact that politics pollutes in a very literate way the english language. And let alone the fact that it was written in 1944, so that's 70 years ago. It just shows how little we've grown and much worse we're getting in keeping any language pure and unpolluted. I'm a native bulgarian speaker and i found so many things in common with our politics and our language and i think everyone would find something they relate to because the essay is so universal. I highly, highly recommend it, it's one of the most interesting things i've ever come across.
ps, Ariel, you rock xxx
I have read 1984 and it was amazing, I own Animal farm and I'm so excited to read it.I think I'm going to get obsess with him too, 1984 blew my mind.
I'm reading 1984 at school and im loving it so far!!
I agree with you! George Orwell is the best writer!xxx
Nice overview of a great writer. There's so much more to Orwell than just '1984' and 'Animal Farm'. Personally I love 'Down and Out in Paris in London' - an eye-opening read that's still relevant today.
My favourite authors that I'm obsessed with and never tire of rereading are Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Lucy Maud Montgomery and Georgette Heyer. My favourite living author is Alexander McCall Smith - every time he publishes something new I am so excited!
Read 1984 a while back still one of my favs and recently read animal farm didn't like it as much idk it didn't go well with me but 1984 LOVED it was amazing
Read some writings on early Soviet history and then Orwell's satire ('Animal Farm') starts to make perfect sense.
I have read Orwell. But I love Wilde. Poetry, short stories, Novel, Plays, I love all of it and I don't think any other author can beat that.
Cool video! I was in high school in 1984 so almost all of the English classes read the novel 1984. Somehow I ended up in a class with a different book. Years later while thumbing through a friends bookshelf I ran across this book. Read it right away and loved it. I recently bought a paperback copy of it and plan to tackle it again soon.
Got my very first Goerge Orwell book today thanks to your passion and enthusiasm:)
I love George Orwell. I've read Animal Farm and 1984 and thought they were phenomenal!
Definitely read Burmese Days! X
It is definitely not weird! I am as obsessed as you are with Orwell. He is pure genius. My collection isn't as extensive as yours but I'm slowly getting there.
George Orwell is my number 1 author too! So rare to meet so many people who have actually read his essays too! Loving it :D
Please tell me why you love George Orwell and do any of your friends "get him"?
I read 1984 in high-school but now I'm very interested in Animal Farm and Keep the Aspidistra Flying!
George Orwell is also one of my all time favorite authors. I read Animal Farm many years ago and I think it played a key role in my development of social and political awareness. 1984 is my favorite book of his, though.
I read 1984 a few years ago but will need to re-read it some time because back then, little old me was so appalled by the things that happened that I wasn't able to process the story very well lol. I finally read Animal Farm a few days ago, and wow. It's really amazing how his ideas are as relevant as ever in today's society. As for me, my author idol is Vladimir Nabokov. His prose is absolutely breathtaking, and I plan on reading everything of his I can get my hands on.
I've never read one of his books, but after watching you talk about him so much, I'm super excited to pick one up!
I have read animal farm and nineteen eighty four. The structure of animal farm was from his first wife Eileen o'shaughnessy and the first time I read anything of his. Later I read his most famous book. I did not understand some of the points made at the time but now it's become more and more clear how important they are. I have also read many of his essays, letters and book reviews which are very informative and give a very good picture of how ideas were developing at the time. More recently I read the observer years which is his journalism of that paper and another book of more recently discovered letters. Most of all I would VERY strongly recommend reading his essay Lear,Tolstoy and the fool which although at first sight does not appear to say much is extremely insightful and brilliantly argued and there are issues in it that are applicable to nineteen eighty four
I love Joan Didion's response essay to George Orwell's "Why I Write," which also goes by the same name. I'm halfway through 1984 but I never finished it.
George Orwell is my favourite author as well, ugh he is brilliant
Christopher Hitchens's favourite author was also George Orwell, and he both spoke and wrote quite a bit about the significance of Orwell's work, particularly at a time when Orwell's legacy was being questioned.
You should check out a short non-fiction book Hitchens wrote called "Why Orwell Matters", and he has other Orwell-related essays, too.
I just happened to see that you have "Why Orwell Matters" marked as to-read on Goodreads, so take my comment as further incentive!
Animal Farm is fantastic! A book that's always gonna be relevant. Been wanting to check out 1984 for some time now. Plus, it's the year I was born :p
I've read Animal Farm and 1984; with 1984 being one of my favourite books of all time. I must read the rest of his works! Recently, I've become obsessed with Stephen King, his novels are excellent!
I'm actually reading Animal Farm for the first time right now! I'm loving it.
The way you feel about Orwell is absolutely the way I feel about Vonnegut. I cannot control myself when it comes to buying anything related to him or his books. I even have Vonnegut fridge magnets!
I've read 1984 by him and I loved it! And because you talk so much about Animal Farm I got it a week ago from a sale on a book website. So it arrived and it's going to be one of my next reads ;)
I have read all Orwell's books and most of his famous essays. He was an incredible writer. 1984 was brilliant. His essay, Politics and the English Language was brilliant. Of his non-fiction, Homage to Catalonia was the most extraordinary. Of his less regarded early novels, I think Burmese Days was probably the best, but I very much enjoyed A Clergyman's Daughter, even though it was a flawed attempt.
I read 1984 in my gr. 11 English class (I am now in grade 12), and I loved it. I plan on picking up Animal Farm in the near future! :)
I have not read anything by George Orwell but I will. I recently justed got into children's lit so I am loving Beverly Cleary's books!
LITERALLY SAME!! I'VE BEEN going absolutely mad about Orwell lately... The first book I ever read by him was Down and Out when I was like 15, and LOVED it, and HAD to read 1984, which is obviously amazing, and then I stopped... 5 years pass and like 3 weeks ago I discovered an old copy of Animal Farm and realised I hadn't read it and OH MY GOD. It's the best one of his I've read, it's just perfection. I must read and buy everything now, I must.
I'm waiting on my copy of homage to Catalonia and I'm so excited to read it! I read 1984 and animal farm and I just loved them!
i really wish you would be my English teacher because you have a passion for books that most teachers don't have and you you use such big words and are so descriptive and we NEED more fabulous people like you.
SO MANY AMAZING/BEAUTIFUL COVERS. The author I'm obsessed with, or maybe I like a little bit TOO much is Neil Gaiman. I just, books, graphic novels or just hearing Gaiman speak, I just love everything he creates.
Animal Farm and my teacher killed it for me. 1984 I really liked that one. I love your videos soo much energy and enthusiasm
I love Animal Farm! His writing seems so genuine, he knows exactly where to put the words on the page to make you feel real disdain and pure hatred for those bloody pigs; I know they're suppose to be symbolising the higher class and what not, but those pigs are bastards!
I had that exact same thought! I ate a ham sandwich whilst reading a part of the book and it tasted slightly more fulfilling. There should be a warning stuck on the book, "may cause the reader to crave pork".
sounds like a solid plan :)
I really liked how exited you were while you talked about Orwell and how exited you make everyone about him too, now I really want to read an Orwell book. And I'm currently obsessed with AGATHA CHRISTIE like I own 5 books by her my nonna (Italian grandma) lent me a bind-up of 3 books and two other books and my school library let me take two for my summer vacation.
I have to read Animal Farm as my summer reading for school and i can't wait!
This is the video that I have always been waiting for.
I read Animal Farm when I was thirteen for school, (I don't know if my school is trying to scar us) and didn't understand much of it, when I reread it now, half a decade later, it became this brilliant genius book
Paris & London is my favorite Orwell. It's a most creative travelogue, and picture of Europe in the early 20th century. It's also his most accessible, readable book in that it's dealing with real things rather than an imagined, metaphorical landscape.
Definitely need to read more of his books.
I'm completely obsessed with Sarah Dessen and Lauren Oliver!
I just bought 1984, and it will be the first book that I will read of his.
I recently read Animal Farm, and I loved it! I am now currently reading 1984. :)
Yes! Orwell is the man and now thanks to you and this video I'm currently on Book Depository while I little voice in my head is screaming "BUY ALL THE ORWELL THINGS!" Lol.
Buy Orwell of the books.
Haha literature pun. I'm great.
You're welcome!
I LOVED Animal Farm and 1984!
I can't think of an author that I'm currently uber obsessed with, but I did go thru a major Jane Austen phase during high school and college.
Such a pretty edition of Animal Farm! I really need to get around to reading 1984.
1984
And I'm obsessed with anything by John Green. Paper Towns is a masterpiece
John green is shit may be he is good writer but his bad on story of a writing
I've never read a George Orwell book, but I will read 1984 soon. And I'm obsessed with John Green!
I loved this!! I wrote my dissertation on representations of music in 1984, so anything to do with Orwell is super exciting :) x
Your enthusiasm is amazing!
Those books look so good together. My author obsession is definitely C.S. Lewis. I have the Narnia books (obviously), but also 7-8 books on theology, his autobiography, and a book of essays. I can't get enough.
1984 by George Orwell, and I love it so much ! I was supposed to read Animal Farm but we didn't have enough time :(
I share your Orwell love. I read 1984 last year and fell in love. I was actually mad at myself for not having read it sooner. I recently just got and read Animal Farm which is also amazing as you know and then I've had the Politics and the English language pamphlet for awhile. I read it right after animal farm. I have the same editions as you and I didn't know there was a third matching cover, that will probably be my next Orwell related purchase now.
This makes me so happy to see you so excited about George Orwell! I've been dying to read 1984, Animal Farm, and Down and Out in Paris and London for so long now and you've finally given me that extra jolt to read them!
Very good summary of this great writer! Yes, everyone should read Animal Farm and 1984 but I very much enjoyed Down and out in Paris and London, Homage to Catalonia, and, yes, even Road to Wigan Pier (although it was tough going at times). Again, enjoyed your presentation!
I have read 1984 in high school. And.. oh my god... the book is genius. I recently picked Animal Farm and really looking forward to get into that :D
I was planning already to read 1984..you got me all pumped up now!!!
I'm obsessed with George Orwell in a strange way. Whenever I feel like I don't want to read anything I just open 1984 and read my favorite pages (AKA half of the book)
I love both Animal Farm and 1984. They were my third and second favourite books (respectively) from high-school. Coming in after my number one book of all time: The Great Gatsby. I love it so much. F. Scott Fitzgerald is incredible and I love so many of his books. Diamond in the Ritz is another one of my faves by him. 150% recommend.
I have read both Animal Farm and 1984, and I did an extensive research paper last year during my senior year of high school that analyzed the events going on in the world and in his life that influenced different aspects of 1984. I grew to greatly admire the man and his brilliant mind. I need to reread Animal Farm BADLY, as it was a required read during 7th grade, but unfortunately my teacher never really explained to use what the book was actually about. We all just thought it was about some crazy barnyard animals. I think that I would enjoy it much more if I read it now, understanding what/who each animal actually represents. But I really enjoyed 1984!!
I'm pretty sure you'd even read his grocery lists 😊
I've seen Animal Farm in my mom's shelf so because of you, I'll definitely be picking it up! You just influenced me (and I'm sure other people) to read your favorite book, so please pat yourself on the back!
1984 seems really interesting... 😊
I read Nineteen Eighty-Four earlier this year and completely fell in love with it! It was the first piece of writing by him that I'd ever read and since then I've read 'Down and Out in Paris and London' which I found super interesting, it's great if you're interested in history which I am, and I bought the penguin modern classics bind-up of his essays which I read one from every now and then :)
I started reading 1984 months ago, then lost my copy of it.... yea. gotta find that. thanks for reminding me via this video lol.
After seeing another video of yours, where you talked about Goerge Orwell, I found 1984 in a used bookstore and read it this summer:) Thank you so much! It really was a book that made you think, which I unfortunatly don't read that often. There is something about the way that Orwell describes rather complicated things and concepts, that gives me this "Eureka-moment"...kind of xD
love love love George Orwell!
After every book/pamphlet you mentioned, I just thought: I have to read and own this! So far I've only read Animal Farm and 1984 (in that order) and found them to be highly interesting and well written, though they wouldn't be my go-to-books to cheer me up, 1984 filled me with a bit of a sense of paranoia.
I'm obsessed with Cassandra Clare. She is amazing.
i haven't read any of Orwell, but the more videos I watch the more I am realizing i need to. Thanks for the video!
I've read 1984 and Animal Farm, which is pretty standard for people to read. George Orwell is a very thought provoking writer, and I'm glad you are excited about his work.
Currently, I'm pretty crazy about ZZ Packer and Eleanor Catton. Two writers who are absolutely amazing in their writing styles and what they write about. I loved Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries, but I also love her debut The Rehearsal. She's so young, brilliant, and an interesting person. She's originally from Canada, but lives in New Zealand. The way she writes reminds me of someone I know in real life.
I've only read animal farm - you've made me want to go out and buy all of these
I read Animal Farm and 1984 in English Literature class (I'm french) but just a passage, now I plan to read it all, thanks to you ! :)
Never read anything by him, but i got excited after watching your video :)
1984 and Animal Farm
1984 is basically the society which is invaded by Illuminati, he was a mason so it kinda makes sense
Collected letters essays and journalism because it has everýthing in context
Ugh, I NEED to read George Orwell's books!!!! I didn't read them in school and I really want to.
I'm sort of/ kind of/ am totally obsessed with Louisa May Alcott (author of Little Women). I read Little Women when I was 11 and then I read it again. And again. And again and again and again and again. And then I read her other work and OH MY GOD I LOVE HER SO MUCH!!!!!!!
‘Realises its not a great place to be’ - thanks using this in A-Levels
Love the Thought Criminal T-Shirt!! I only read 1984 by George Orwell, and I really enjoyed it. I need to read his other books. I will probably start with Animal Farm(:
I just finished 1984 and whereas it was nowhere near a favourite for me, I loved Animal Farm! And those shirts were totally awesome
I read Animal Farm and I loved it. I so need to read 1984.
I am a huge George Orwell fan as well. I will have to check out his essays they sound so intriguing!
I haven't finished reading 1984 and i have alredy ordered animal farm and politics and the english language, he is genious
I'm definitely going to get his books now!
I've only just got into Orwell but I wish I'd read his books sooner, I've recently read Animal Farm and I own and plan to read 1984 as soon as possible, also I've been meaning to read Down and Out In Paris and London forever now and I wanna read everything he's ever written. I feel like with Orwell you ever 'get' him or you don't and if you do like him you just want more and that's exactly how I feel :')
I like George Orwell a lot :) I've only read 1984, Animal Farm and Burmese Days I think. I used to read pretty regularly but it's kind of fallen by the waste side in recent years. College keeps me really busy. I used to try reading on the bus but I always fall asleep on the way home or my constant sniffles in the winter months prevent me from taking in any information cause I can't look down for long enough :)
I never studied Animal Farm because my English teacher was crap. *Sad face* I'm planning on reading 1984 and Animal Farm soon, though. I reaaalllyyy want to get in to reading more classics.