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  1. 7 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

    George Orwell´s "1984" , but since my beyond jazz-english is very modest, I bought it in romanian language.

    Not bad, and some things not just unknown to who ever lived in Eastern Europe. Them filterless cigarretes, where a lot of tobacco is runnin´  out before you lit the cigarrette, some brands still existed for one or two years after 89, organized stuff like Mai 1th parade, leaders whose photo was on all newspapers, corrected history, it seems that Orwell had a quite realistic imagination for someone who didn´t live in the East and wrote that stuff almost 80 years ago......

    Such an interesting comment on Orwell, Gheorghe! He's currently under attack from the feminist lobby, but 1984 fascinated me when I first read it at the age of 16 and that fascination has never weakened.

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