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kcrawfish's review
3.0
This was an interesting read, an examination of class and prejudice, as well as a time capsule to life in post WW1, pre WW2 England. The beginning detailed the bleak state of working class people in the depression-era, which evolved into the upper middle class’s view of the working class, and the deep underlying prejudice Orwell’s contemporaries had for (simultaneously) the rich as well as the poor. The latter part of the book was the more overtly political, and altogether, I’ll close how I opened, it was an interesting read.
ljutavidra's review against another edition
2.0
Not my cup of tea definitivno. Ovo je zapravo nefikcija/autobiografsko delo. Tema je život rudara u ruralnoj Engleskoj i o slamovima, tako da ovo preporučujem ljudima koje to naročito zanima. Imala sam utisak da čitam ispitnu literaturu iz TDSS-a (fellow sociologists će razumeti).
Citat koji sam uspela da zaboravim da dodam i koji sumira sve: 'In a way it is humiliating to watch coal-miners working. It raises in you a momentary doubt about your own status as an intellectual and a superior person generally. For it is brought home to you, at least while you are watching, that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.'
Citat koji sam uspela da zaboravim da dodam i koji sumira sve: 'In a way it is humiliating to watch coal-miners working. It raises in you a momentary doubt about your own status as an intellectual and a superior person generally. For it is brought home to you, at least while you are watching, that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.'
getoffmyface's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
3.0
alex2teeuw's review against another edition
dark
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.75
The first half of the book is wonderful, an intriguing and intimate account of the conditions, lives and livelihoods of the working class in Northern England in the second quarter of the 20th century.
The second half is only half as engaging - Orwell presents a series of essays on class, technology and socialism. It felt like a lecture, though not a bad one. If this is what you expect and desire, then it there is more chance of enjoying it.
The second half is only half as engaging - Orwell presents a series of essays on class, technology and socialism. It felt like a lecture, though not a bad one. If this is what you expect and desire, then it there is more chance of enjoying it.
fishface's review against another edition
dark
informative
reflective
fast-paced
4.25
Orwell is just so readable, especially his non-fiction. The latter half of this book, especially the diatribe against the machinisation of life was particularly interesting... a lot of it feels very prescient to ai threatening creative work, as the line between work and play is so blurred.