I know tons of pro-Orwell stuff, not that I'm not interested, but it's a perspective I do have rather than anything new. I've read the books. But you seem to be wrong about the list, I've had five replies and not a single anti- Orwell tract.
I was sure I'd seen some extended debate about what's wrong with Orwell here, but maybe I'm mixing it up with a different list.
Catherine
Quoting s-t-t at juno.com:
>
> Catherine Driscoll wrote:
> > Orwell. I want some perspective on Orwell,
> > I guess, that I don't feel I have.
>
> Scott McLemee had some admiring things to say:
>
> http://www.greatbooks.org/tcr/orwell.shtml
>
> I recently posted this by Thomas Pynchon:
>
> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dowbrigade/stories/storyReader$123
>
> And Michael Dawson is right about The Road To Wigan Pier and Homage to
> Catalonia. Check them out, if you get the chance.
>
> I'm sure other list members can furnish you with anti-Orwell tracts.
>
> -- Shane
>
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