![]() ![]() The following passage struck me even more: He concludes with his points on how to improved the conditions of the "tramps" and it all sits on pages and pages of first account evidence. This book is like a really really long essay. As such, the majority of the book is hard to get through, but it allows for much more profound experience in the end. The last 30 pages, however, are so much more effective because of those pages. If I approached this as a travel diary from the start, perhaps I would have enjoyed those first 150 pages more. This truly sums up what had been a tedious 200 page journey. I can at least say, Here is the world that awaits you if you are ever penniless." It is a fairly trivial story, and I can only hope that it has been interesting in the same way as a travel diary is interesting. So, while 3.5 stars, the ability at which Orwell switches on a dime from complex to simple is brilliant: ![]() The best pizza in NYC, for example, is both crunchy and chewy. I might dedicate my career to relationship. In fact, it's really anything that can achieve that duality. I always love a book that can be both: simple and complex. That being said, the simplicity at which he concluded the novel sort of stunned me. I'm a sucker for a book about nothing, but even this tested my patience with infinitesimal details of life as the lowest of the low in a hotel in 1930s Paris. ![]()
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