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and he is about the same amount in another space so really that man owned 900 BOOKS) he also states that he has 143 Review copies in his flat, he would have been an awesome booktuber man :D I loved the message of this book because George basically calls People out on their hypocrisy and says that People who state that reading is an expensive Hobby but in the same breath smoke are just fucking stupid because reading is so much cheaper than Smoking and healthier either way 2 - Bookshop Memories George reminisces about the time he used to work in a bookshop and vents about the stupid costumers (it was also relatable af) he talks about how Little bookish People actually frequented the bookshop and how a lot of book Snobs came in, ordered some fancy challenging classic and then never return to pick said ordered book up he also analyzes which authors get bought by which gender, Age Group etc it is quite fascinating in resume he states that he wouldn't like to work in the book trade forever because whilst doing it he lost his pleasure in reading because as a bookseller you constantly have to lie about the books you want to sell 3 - Confessions of a Book Reviewer 'he is a man of thirty-five but Looks fifty' - oh George, I feel ya, reviewing books can be quite strenuous :D the atmosphere in this Essay was super intriguing and on Point, George really has a knack for creating a visual Image in my head, I could smell the dusty books, feel the exhausting and squint through the dimmed lighting 'Until one has some kind of professional realtionship with books one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.' 4 - The Prevention of Literature 'freedom of the press means [...] freedom to critique and oppose' 'the Journalist is unfree, and conscious of his unfreedom, when he is forced to write lies or suppress what seems to him important news' George also states that in the times of oppression literature (that is not political) almost ceases to exist (as seen in Germany or Italy in the 20th century) 'At present we know only that the imagination [...] will not breed in captivity.' 5 - My Country Right or Left this is one of George's political essays and it didn't do much for me because I'm too stupid to understand it and so I could take nothing from it, I'm sorry (will revisit this in the future probably) 6 - How the Poor Die I loved how this is reminiscent of his time in Paris and goes along very well with his accounts in "Down and Out in Paris in London" in 1929 George had to stay in a shabby hospital in Paris he describes the humiliating and disgusting cumpolsatory routines he had to go through (kind of like a medical check up and Hygiene Treatment just not done in the way to help the patient but to be on the safe side with the law) and it was quite sickening he talks how there was just too Little staff for all the Patients who were crammed together and that People would literally piss themselves because no one would take them to the toilet 7 - Such, such were the joys I def have to reread this one in the future because it was one of my favorite essays because it gave such great insight into George's childhood he talks about what it was like to grow up in an all-Boys School where everything about sex was surpressed (basically not talked about but when Masturbation and homosexuality surfaced they were punished immediately) I also liked how reflective he was and that he is not blaming his teachers at the time because he sees that through the eyes of a child everything is much more terrifying than it really is he also recounts how he got physically beaten by the director and Overall his honesty in These essays really got to me he also talked about how early "class and class distinction" got ingrained in the children and how the rich Kids made fun of the poor Kids (basically Kids like George who got a studentship in order to stay in the School OVERALL A VERY TERRIFIC ESSAY COLLECTION and def one of my favorites from George Orwell