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The Book Thread
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09-14-2019, 08:32 AM -
Quite Good
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09-14-2019, 08:33 AM -
(09-14-2019, 08:32 AM)Shteve Wrote: It didn't work for you so I'll take my chances and not bother mate, cheers.

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09-14-2019, 08:41 AM -
Just found this recent video googling Peter Oborne. Old school journalist





Reminds me of a Alex Thomson type journo, but more of a right winger
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09-14-2019, 09:04 AM -
(09-14-2019, 08:32 AM)Shteve Wrote: It didn't work for you so I'll take my chances and not bother mate, cheers.

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09-14-2019, 09:28 AM -
(09-14-2019, 08:29 AM)Alan Partridge Wrote: Something like you draw someone and swap books individually then report back.

So a bit like secret Santa, where everyone else gets a book apart from the poor cunt that you draw?

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09-14-2019, 10:14 AM -
Lewis taking out the trash GodIsGod
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09-14-2019, 10:33 AM -
(09-14-2019, 08:30 AM)Alan Partridge Wrote: Should put down your computer and read a book mate. Might not be thick as fuck.

Good point Quite Good

(09-14-2019, 08:32 AM)Shteve Wrote: It didn't work for you so I'll take my chances and not bother mate, cheers.

Very good point Quite Good
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09-29-2019, 07:11 PM -
Toppings has opened at the top of Elm Row.

Nipped in today but it was absolutely mobbed. Looks good though.
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10-22-2019, 10:03 AM -
Have been reading 1984, great read so far.

Is that what a jeremy corbyn led britain would look like Monty LewLew Monty LewLew
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10-22-2019, 10:48 AM -
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Quarter of the way through this. Holland is a good storyteller and keeps the tension bubbling along nicely.

Hard to comprehend now just how huge the stakes were for the free world at the time. Can only imagine cunts like Trump and Bojo floundering horribly in that pressure cooker and leading us all to disaster. Monty LewLew
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10-22-2019, 12:35 PM -
(10-22-2019, 10:03 AM)Morph Wrote: Have been reading 1984, great read so far.

Is that what a jeremy corbyn led britain would look like  Monty LewLew  Monty LewLew

You think you're not living through the rise of doublespeak now? Warnock
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10-22-2019, 01:09 PM -
(10-22-2019, 12:35 PM)Picards Forehead Wrote: You think you're not living through the rise of doublespeak now? Warnock

It would be interesting to have read it in say the 70s/80s to compare reading to it now. A lot of it doesn't sound that ridiculous or horrific, because we've become normalised to it already. Not one of these people who go mental with the whole ''life is becoming like Orwells vision in 1984!!!!!!'' but parts of it can be pretty accurate.

The bits about how the altercation of history is quite interesting, he's went all in on the whole every single thing is edited to suit an agenda but thought that was quite comparable to the ''fake news'' and people reading and believing what they want to see on the internet even if it's clearly lies.

I'm well into it like Laugh I don't really know a lot about about Stalinism so i imagine a lot of the comparisons go over my head but still v enjoyable even if you don't have a good knowledge of that period Quite Good
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10-22-2019, 01:16 PM -
Weird that you link an authoritarian, surveillance state with social democratic.

You realise Orwell was a socialist right?
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10-22-2019, 01:29 PM -
I thought ‘The Party’ was meant to be a reflection of some sort of extreme communism.

The only thing I’m not sure about so far which might become clearer is why ‘the proles’ are left to their own devices almost but the members of the party are subject to this super controlled lifestyle where they’ll be murdered if they don’t comply. I’m only about half way through it so might be answered later on.
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10-22-2019, 01:33 PM -
Don't the proles have cameras in their houses? Morning workouts and shit? Or is that Brave New World?
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10-22-2019, 01:38 PM -
(10-22-2019, 01:33 PM)Neaven MacLean Wrote: Don't the proles have cameras in their houses? Morning workouts and shit? Or is that Brave New World?

Nah that's the party members, Winston goes off to pump a prossy where the proles live and there's no cameras or that.  The workouts are for the party members too, or at least the 'outer party members'.

It might change later in the book, i'm just about half way in so quite a big chunk to go.



Would love to get a 2 minute hate at tynecastle where we can shout shit about levein. The 90 minute hate jjay
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10-22-2019, 01:45 PM -
(10-22-2019, 01:29 PM)Morph Wrote: I thought ‘The Party’ was meant to be a reflection of some sort of extreme communism.  

He was certainly angry with how the Soviets destroyed the credibility of leftist and socialist politics.

He'd definitely be upset that legacy of Soviety communism has people linking socialists like Corbyn with his writings. Orwell was against totalitarianism in all it's forms and would certainly be critiquing our current corporatist prison society.

It's creepy how many right-wing liberals leverage Orwell's work to protect the status quo.

If you're enjoying the book then you'll love Animal Farm. It's morbidly amusing.
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10-22-2019, 01:45 PM -
I was just joking about Corbyn.
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10-22-2019, 01:47 PM -
Thanks to Orwell IRA Jeremy is polling at 20%

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status...68065?s=20

Thanks Orwell! jjay



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