tintom 's review for:

The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
4.5

I would recommend anyone read this book it is very good and these are my thoughts:

George “massive bitter professional hater” Orwell is kind of a relatable queen, but in a good and a bad way. Like it’s sort of devastating that it’s been almost 100 years and he’s talking abt things that are relevant today in terms of leftists disliking each other lmao. I think it’s pathetic that he finds vegetarians to be such an abhorrent class of ppl, like get over it bro, learn to appreciate your fellow socialist, but it’s also so relatable, cos bloody hell it’s much easier to find people annoying when u think of their worldview as *almost right*…… and in-fighting on the left is so everywhere it’s so julia and idk he’s real for that, but yeah idk. This point is badly formed but I’m trying to articulate somehow that I think George Orwell was very much a man swayed by his emotions who didn’t want to accept that he was swayed by his emotions, like he wants to present his viewpoint as an objective truth but a lot of it just isn’t (like his caricature impression of what annoying socialists wear), it’s his personal feelings. But also looooove that u know, cos that’s low key me too and also like he would have done great on twitter. RIP George Orwell you would have loved tweeting.

Also fascinating to learn about the mines, the housing issues and how the gvt’s response to slums(?) was failing cos they won’t let the damn pigeons into the estates. I love love love his scathing yapping about the deranged idea southerners have about the inherent authenticity of northernness, and actually of northerners perpetuating this, cos it’s also so real and present! Like this stupid idea remains! The way that my pals with northern regional accents get spoken to and interpreted by middle class Southerners is rly funny and fucked

anyway i’m gonna rewrite this review at one point cos this is all just stream of consciousness bollocks but like yas great book. Learned so much abt the 30s, about Orwell’s hater energy, about those damn mines, about how things change so much and stay the same so much, etc etc